Anker's Eufy MindBase moves camera AI onto a box in the house
Anker's IFA hub runs its own language model locally, takes up to 48TB of drives and drops the subscription for advanced camera features.
If you have been paying monthly for smart features on your security cameras, Anker's pitch at IFA is that the box in your hallway can do the same work. The Eufy MindBase runs an Anker-developed large language model on the device itself, and the company says it can process your footage without that footage ever leaving your home. Natural-language search across recordings and event summaries are part of it, with no monthly fee.
Underneath the AI branding it is a NAS. There is a 64GB SSD and two bays that take either 2.5 or 3.5-inch hard drives, expandable to 48TB, plus a dedicated AI chip doing the event processing.
Anker is not selling it as a camera accessory. MindBase is pitched as the "central brain for the home," a whole-home connectivity layer with on-device compute and local storage, and the radio list backs that up: dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Thread and Zigbee, with the hub acting as a Matter controller running Matter 1.5 and supporting more than 40 Matter device categories including lights, sensors and HVAC systems. Capacity is 16 wireless cameras, four wired ones and 34 sensors. It also works with Apple's HomeKit Secure Video.
The AI side is promised to evaluate events in real time, assessing risk and then acting on it, whether that means changing the lighting, issuing a verbal warning or what Anker calls active deterrence.
Security is only the first use case. Anker plans an energy agent for household power and a clean agent for robot vacuums, among others. Eufy Security spokesperson Janet Jin told The Verge the company plans to integrate Matter-compatible third-party cameras.
Anker did not give a starting price, saying more details will arrive closer to retail availability.
The other IFA hardware is more concrete. The Eufy Video Doorbell S4 arrives in late September in the US, UK, Canada, Northern Europe, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, starting at $299 with the Chime included, though The Verge lists it at $299.99 and describes a 180-by-180 panoramic field of view, AI-powered tracking with auto-zoom and 3K recording. Anker also showed a Eufy Fall Detection Sensor that uses mmWave sensing and automatically starts a voice check after a detected fall or a long stretch of inactivity.
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