Ring Video Doorbell, Changing The Face of Home Security

Ring provides home security through a video peephole, letting you see who's at the door whether you're inside the house or 100 miles away.

How Ring works

Ring operates on a simple concept. Someone presses your doorbell, and the signal travels through your WiFi network, up into Ring’s cloud servers, and then back down to your smartphone. Once you open up the phone notification and get inside the Ring app, you can see who’s at the door, and even talk to the person in a two-way conversation.

You can see them, but they can’t see you—and this is what makes Ring a compelling home security device. Whether you’re inside your home, at work, or on vacation, the system is designed to let you always answer the door.

Doorbell Latency

Best case scenario, the time delay between someone hitting the doorbell and receiving an alert on your phone is almost non-existent. Mind you, sometimes it would take a while to get from the smartphone notification to Ring’s video display, but at least there was very little lag in actually getting the notification itself.

Long latencies could be reduced by ensuring strong wifi signal strength arounf the doorbell system, althouhg there's very little one can do about a bad cellphone signal.

Motion Detection

At the moment, this is only activated when someone approaches the door.  The smartphone app activates a notification which the user could use to open a video window if he so wishes. Video on Demand (VOD), where the user could view the outside world anytime, is not currently available .  Cloud recording captures every activity detected by the video doorbell system albeit this service requires a $3 monthly or $30 annual subscription.  This product is available on Amazon Prime, where it commands a four star rating, for $200.