Wyze’s New Solar-powered Pan-and-tilt Security Camera Is Less Than $80

The Solar Cam Pan tin beryllium controlled remotely aliases usage AI to way nan activity of a personification successful your yard. | Image: Wyze

Wyze has announced its first battery-powered, solar-charged, 2K information camera that tin rotate and tilt, providing sum of your full yard. The Wyze Solar Cam Pan is disposable now done Wyze’s online store for $79.98, making it cheaper than competitors’ offerings for illustration Reolink’s $88 2K pan-and-tilt information camera, Tapo’s $170 4K VistaCam 360 that launched earlier this year, and nan $160 3K Eufy Security SoloCam S340.

Wyze says nan Solar Cam Pan’s high-efficiency star sheet tin support it moving continuously pinch conscionable an hr of vulnerability to sunlight each day. The institution hasn’t shared specifications astir really agelong it will tally connected artillery powerfulness unsocial should nan upwind move cloudy for a while, aliases really overmuch artillery life will beryllium reduced if nan 360-degree pan, 70-degree tilt system is utilized extensively.

The camera tin beryllium controlled remotely utilizing Wyze’s mobile app, but it besides leverages AI to observe group and move nan camera automatically to way their movements crossed your property. The Solar Cam Pan tin grounds astatine nighttime utilizing an IR ray to illuminate subjects successful low-light conditions, and it tin double arsenic a deterrent to pursuit group and animals distant utilizing a mini motion-activated LED spotlight and a siren. But it’s not designed to beryllium utilized arsenic a floodlight.

The Solar Cam Pan comes pinch an IP65 h2o guidance rating, which intends you’re not constricted to installing it wherever it’s protected against nan elements. It supports two-way audio utilizing nan Wyze mobile app and offers smart location integrations pinch Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and IFTTT. Continuous section signaling is an action but you’ll astir apt want to upgrade nan camera’s soul retention utilizing an optional microSD paper up to 512GB successful size.

You tin besides link nan Solar Cam Pan to Wyze’s unreality retention pinch subscription plans that scope successful price from $2.99 per period to $19.99 per period — if you’re comfortable utilizing nan company’s connected features. Last twelvemonth Wyze had a serious information breach that affected thousands of customers pursuing vulnerabilities successful now-discontinued products that nan institution hadn’t disclosed for years. Wyze has since been working to amended its information practices to regain nan spot of consumers.