For the past nine months, Dropcam’s had a feature that can watch what’s going on in front of its lens, and alert you to certain types of activity. The only problem was that those alerts depended on Dropcam’s computer imaging technologies getting it right, which wasn’t always the case. Today the company’s taken a step to give people manual control of the areas its cameras see with custom activity zones. Users draw these out on Dropcam’s web interface, give them a name, then set up whether or not they want alerts for those regions. When something happens within that specific area, you get an alert — but only then.
