Reolink Unveils Next-Gen ReoNeura AI, Home Hub 2, And OMVI 2i Ultra At IFA 2026

Reolink has used IFA 2026 to announce that it is giving its smart home security cameras an AI upgrade, with new skills that let you teach the tech what to look for, and let you search through footage using natural language.

The Chinese brand has unveiled the next generation of its ReoNeura AI platform at the Berlin-based expo, alongside a new Home Hub 2 and the OMVI 2i Ultra camera (main image, above).

ReoNeura runs its AI processing on-device, and so it doesn't require a subscription or cloud processing.

Reolink tells us that it can already distinguish between people, vehicles, animals and packages, and the new Custom AI Detection feature takes things a step further by allowing users to define their own scenarios.

Rather than getting an alert saying that motion was detected, for example, you could teach the system to recognize something specific to your home, such as a garage door being open or a car not being on the driveway overnight.

When paired with the new Reolink Home Hub 2, there's also Local AI Video Search on offer, which means less scrubbing through hours of recordings looking for something specific.

Users will be able to search using natural-language descriptions, asking the system to find particular events or activity in your recordings without needing a cloud subscription like you do with the likes of Ring.

The new Hub 2 can store and manage footage from up to eight Reolink cameras, with support for up to 16TB of external storage.

The OMVI 2i Ultra is a wire-free dual-camera security camera with an 8-megapixel wide-angle camera and a 5-megapixel pan-and-tilt camera.

The two cameras work together using Reolink's SyncTrack system, first introduced on the OMVI 3i earlier this year .

When the fixed wide-angle camera detects an object, the pan-and-tilt camera can follow it, even after it moves out of the first camera's field of view. The PT camera can pan 355 degrees and tilt 50 degrees, with automatic framing and zoom thrown into the mix.

With a 10,000mAh removable battery and a 6W solar panel, Reolink claims there's up to six months of battery life and enough charging from 30 minutes of sunlight per day to keep it running.

Reolink also used IFA 2026 to unveil the TrackFlex WiFi: a 4K dual-lens camera with 270-degree detection, 355-degree pan range and AI detection for people, vehicles and animals.

It also gets Quick Event Localization, which is designed to make sure recordings include the full context around an event rather than just the few seconds where the camera spotted something.

The Reolink Home Hub 2 will go on sale this fall for $199.99, TrackFlex WiFi lands in October, also costing $199.99; the OMVI 2i Ultra is expected to arrive later in Q4 with pricing still to be confirmed.

Reolink also had the flagship OMVI X16 PoE on show in Berlin, which is now set to launch in Q4, but there's still no word on pricing.

This article was originally published on Forbes.com