The Amazon Ring, which is Amazon’s security camera doorbell, is said to be discussing the idea of an alarm in the neighborhood when a suspicious person is seen.
According to reports, it is planning to spread the monitoring society in the form of establishing a system for each region through in-house data and receiving a ring discount coupon when reporting a crime. For example, residents who continue to monitor and collect 6 to 10 neighboring email addresses, report suspicious persons to the police, and people who spread the ring to social media can receive benefits such as discount coupons.
The alarms are a suspicious vehicle, a suspicious person pretending to be a worker, a person wandering in front of a neighbor’s house, or a thoughtful person looking into a car. Amazon supports the process of notifying the police of the video captured by the ring camera when an alarm is received. If you are caught as a real crime, you will be given a $50 discount promotional code for the ring. In this way, you can expect the effect of selling more rings.
Of course, the idea was before Ring’s acquisition of $1 billion by Amazon last year, and the idea wasn’t long enough. This initiative was abolished in 2017. In the case of Digital Neiborhood Watch, an app released later than Ring, there is no such thing as a $50 discount coupon to report a suspicious person to a neighbor like this.
Meanwhile, according to internal documents, Amazon Ring has already partnered with 225 police agencies in the United States. Related information can be found here .