Anker’s MindBase is an AI hub for your entire smart home

Anker wants all your smart home tech to run through one hub. Anker’s MindBase is an AI hub for your entire smart home. Anker’s sub-brand Eufy is launching the E50 NVR Security System, combining 2K and 4K cameras with AI-powered tracking, starting at $999.

Eufy’s Video Doorbell S4 launches later this month, while the new Window Camera E10 arrives in Q4 for $69.99. It’s September, and if you follow tech even loosely, you know what that means: IFA is here, and like every year, Berlin should be packed with consumer tech that gives us a clear look at where the industry is headed next. Charging accessory giant Anker has been a staple at the trade show for the last few years, and that’s not changing this time around.

The accessory giant has given us an early look at what it’s been cooking, and among a host of upcoming releases, a few have caught our attention. Anker MindBase Anker Anker is building a centralized brain to bring all of its smart tech together.

Anker today announced the launch of Anker MindBase, an AI home hub meant to work with almost 100 Anker devices and Matter-enabled smart home devices from other companies. It works alongside HomeKit, and is equipped with an AI Core compute card and the on-device Anker TrueSmart AI Agent.

Anker’s MindBase uses AI to run your smart home, and keep it safe. Anker’s MindBase is a smart home hub, NAS and security guard.

To working as a smart home hub, the MindBase supports up to 48TB of local storage, and it functions as a NAS. It can be used for storing files, photos, and videos locally.

News Anker’s MindBase is a smart home hub, NAS and security guard It’s designed to run all of your smart home devices with AI. Essentially, it’s a NAS with a 64GB SSD and two bays to hold either 2.5 or 3.5-inch hard drives, with its own AI compute built on top.

MindBase integrates with Anker security cameras, and Anker plans to sell a MindBase Security Kit that includes a new TrackLight Cam S1, S4 Video Doorbell, and Smart Security Shield sensor. Anker says on-device AI evaluates events in real time to assess risk and respond through observation, lighting, verbal warnings, or active deterrence.

Anker is selling it as a way to both run your smart home and store your family’s treasured memories, and as a digital security guard. If you want MindBase to watch your home, then you’ll need to invest in Anker’s lineup of home security cameras.

The sensor can be placed at the edge of a property, using radar to detect strangers from up to 15 meters away. Anker is also debuting several new home security products.

That includes the new Eufy Video Doorbell S4, Window Camera E10, Fall Detection Sensor or just its range of plain ol’ pan-tilt-zoom cameras. All of these can feed into the hub, where the AI is promised to "evaluate events in real-time," assessing risk and responding.

Eufy Video Doorbell S4 – The Video Doorbell S4 is a wired doorbell and security camera combo. It has a 9-megapixel lens with 3K resolution and a 180-degree field of view.

If a threat is detected, it’ll have multiple avenues to respond, including changing the lighting, issuing a verbal warning or something just described as "active deterrence." If it’s capable of correctly identifying a problem, grabbing a cudgel and dealing with the problem itself, it might be worth the price. Sadly, we don’t know what the price is, and Anker can’t even tell us when we’ll see this product available to buy.

It has a 25-degree adjustable tilt with anti-glare optics, and it records in 2.5K resolution. Eufy Fall Detection Sensor – The Fall Detection Sensor is a non-wearable sensor that uses mmWave radar sensing to detect falls without using a camera.