Last year, we were impressed by Reolink solving one of the biggest problems with smart home security cameras — searching through footage. Their ReoNeura AI platform allowed for natural language searches (e.g. “find someone in a brown hat”) that could take you to exactly the footage you needed, without having to jump through minutes or hours of video.
This week at CES 2026, Reolink announced that they’re bringing natural language search to a wider range of smart home cameras and devices through their Reolink AI Box.
The Reolink AI Box is, essentially, a small computer outfitted with a Qualcomm Dragonwing Q8 series chipset, which is designed specifically to power AI models. Once connected to home security cameras, the AI Box can give those cameras the benefit of ReoNeura.
The AI Box will be able to run an AI model that can identify objects and people in images, which in turn enables the natural language search feature. That also allows users to set more specific alert triggers — say, sending an alert when a certain person is seen during a specific time frame.
The other benefit to users is that the AI Box does all that work, including going through pictures and videos, locally. Rather than sending all that data to a cloud server, it all stays home, heading off any worries about a third party getting hacked and your home video footage getting accessed. That also means that users can work on training more personalized AI models that are based on their own data.
The AI Box would also be able to provide text descriptions of security footage over a given time, along with security summaries — probably a handy feature to have if you need to make a police report.
Reolink OMVI Series
Reolink also announced their OMVI series of security cameras, including the flagship OMVI X16 PoE model. The OMVI X16 is designed to see everything — on top of dual 16MP panoramic cameras with a 180-degree field of view, there’s an 8MP pan-tilt-zoom camera that can pan a full 360 degrees, tilt 140 degrees, and is capable of 16x optical zoom.
The panoramic cameras do most of the work of video recording, while the pan-tilt-zoom camera handles motion tracking, even past the field of vision of the panoramic cameras. Basically, it sees everything around it, and can zoom in on anything it finds moving around.
Add that to the AI capabilities of ReoNeura, and you’ve got a potent home security camera setup — one that doesn’t miss anything, produces footage that is easy to search through, and can execute more specific triggers and alerts using AI. Truly a modern-day panopticon.
Floodlight series cameras
Adding to its floodlight portfolio, Reolink unveiled a Solar Floodlight Cam that complements the existing Elite Floodlight WiFi and TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi models from IFA 2025.
Power-Efficient Series
Reolink has also teamed up with Qualcomm to launch a new range of battery-powered doorbells and cameras, which are all expected to have great battery life while also being affordable. Powered by Qualcomm’s ultra-efficient QCC730 Wi-Fi chip, these new devices promise up to 96% longer battery life than the industry standard—yes, you read that right, nearly double—all packaged in a more compact design. Pricing isn’t available yet but should be somewhere in the range of $99.