Not so long ago, outdoor lighting and home surveillance were two separate installations: a lamp on the facade and a camera on a bracket, each with its own cable. Today you can buy them in a single housing. An outdoor light with a camera and motion sensor switches on the light when someone enters your property, records the event and sends a notification to your phone. We explain how these hybrids work, how a wall light with a camera differs from a floodlight or a solar-panel camera, where to mount them, what the privacy rules look like, and which parameters to check so you don’t mute the notifications in frustration after a month.
Maciej Hudaszek