Reolink jumps on the AI home security train at the IFA trade show

Reolink is showing two new products at the IFA trade show in Berlin this week. Well, make that one new product and what it promises is a big leap forward in the AI engine powering its latest home security cameras and select NVRs (Network Video Recorders).

With ReoNeura, Reolink’s gext-gen AI security system, Reolink says it’s committed to “delivering user-centric smart security solutions that set new standards for modern surveillance.” That’s a big claim, considering how unimpressed we were with its earlier Local AI Video Search in our review of the otherwise excellent Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi.

Given that that software was released in beta form shortly before we finished our review of that otherwise excellent product, we didn’t let it stop us from naming the $220 floodlight cam an Editors’ Choice winner. The fact that this AI processing can occur on the camera itself or on some Reolink NVRs without requiring a subscription is immensely appealing.

That said, Reolink says AI processing that is performed in the cloud “unlocks advanced AI capabilities without hardware upgrades.”  

Reolink’s promise is that users will be able to use natural-language queries to search a camera’s video recordings to find specific events, eliminating the need to scrub through hours of events to find the ones you care about. Entering prompts such as “white SUV,” “person wearing a hat,” or “man in red shirt” should immediately surface clips with those elements in them.

ReoNeura is supposed to go far beyond that to enable a wide range of advanced capabilities, including person, pet, and object detection that goes beyond identifying packages to being able to differentiate cars and bicycles as well as boxes. A “smart event detection” feature, meanwhile, will also notify you when an object has been removed from its field of view or if a door has been left opened.

Perimeter protection feature gives the camera the ability to actively detect and deter unauthorized access to a property, including loiterers. A video captioning  feature can automatically summarize video recordings into plain-language summaries, so you don’t need to watch an entire clip to discern what happened.

Reolink’s ReoNeura technology will be available on several existing security cameras, including the Reolink Duo 3 WiFi we reviewed in January 2025, the aforementioned Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi, and, of course, the new TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi.

Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi camera

Where the Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi has dual 4K cameras in a fixed-position body, the new TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi has dual 4K lenses mounted to a motor that can pan them 355 degrees and tilt 50 degrees to cover even more territory. (For this camera, Reolink defines 4K as 3,840 x 2,160 pixels, and the camera records at 20 frames per second.)

Local storage is also available, either in the form of a user-supplied microSD card in capacities as high as 512GB or via Reolink’s Home Hub product or one of its NVRs.  

The Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi Camera is outfitted with dual dimmable LED floodlights that deliver up to 3,000 lumens of brightness that can project as far as 40 feet. Their white color temperature can be tuned from a warm 3,000 degrees Kelvin to a crisp 6,000K.

We’ll have a complete hands-on review of the Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi Camera as soon as we can get a review sample.

This news story is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best home security cameras.