An eye for faces

Because it sees better, Nest Cam IQ can think better. It has the processing power to tell a person from a thing. So you get person alerts right out of the box. (Nest Cam Indoor needs help from the cloud to do that.) With Nest Aware, Nest Cam IQ can apply face recognition technology to keep track of familiar faces, and even help you spot strangers.1 So your camera can tell you more than whether or not it saw a person – it can tell you it saw Fred.

This is a job for Supersight

With video, image quality is so much more than pixel count. It’s about processing, encoding, pixel size, frame rate and more. What good is an 8-million-pixel picture if it overwhelms your bandwidth?

Nest Cam IQ has a 4K sensor and wide 130° view to capture as much as possible. Then it turns that raw data into extra-clear, seamless video – and two ways to watch it. We call it Supersight.

Supersight starts with HDR, combining staggered 4K images into one beautifully balanced 1080p HD picture that won’t choke your connection. Then the video is encrypted and its bit rate adaptively adjusted.

And now comes the main magic trick: the close-up tracking shot. When Nest Cam IQ spots a person, Supersight can automatically zoom in and follow him walking across a room, while still keeping the full 130° picture in view.