IFA invariably brings an avalanche of new smart home hardware, but one of the more interesting trends this year isn’t another camera with more megapixels. It’s where all the intelligence behind those cameras actually lives.
EZVIZ has arrived at IFA 2026 with a sizeable expansion of its smart home ecosystem, led by a new “local-first” approach to AI that aims to move more processing, storage and device management inside the home rather than relying entirely on the cloud.
Alongside it comes plenty of hardware, including new triple-lens security cameras, battery cameras capable of switching between Wi-Fi and 4G, smarter locks and video doorbells, and even an expansion into robotic cleaning and wearable electronics.
The cloud isn’t disappearing from the smart home, but EZVIZ clearly doesn’t think everything needs to make the trip there.
EZVIZ AI CoreX brings MIRA into the home
Perhaps the most interesting announcement is EZVIZ AI CoreX, a new home station built around the company’s MIRA AI model system.
Rather than sending everything off-site for processing, CoreX is designed to provide edge AI capSet featured imageabilities within the home. EZVIZ says the system can provide large-capacity file storage, multi-device management and intelligent searching across text, photos and video.
More importantly, key functionality is designed to work without an internet connection.
That has implications beyond simply making things work when the NBN has decided to take the afternoon off.
Moving more processing locally can potentially reduce cloud dependence, improve response times and give users greater control over where their security footage and associated data are being processed.
EZVIZ is also taking a layered approach rather than making CoreX mandatory.
Compatible standalone cameras can use their own local AI chips for detection features without requiring a subscription, while users wanting a larger system can add CoreX or other EZVIZ hubs such as the X6.
It’s a model that makes quite a lot of sense. Start with a camera, and add the heavier local processing infrastructure if and when the smart home grows around it.
Three eyes are apparently better than two
Dual-lens cameras have become increasingly common, including within EZVIZ’s existing range. At IFA, the company is adding another eye.
The new H90f and HB90f form EZVIZ’s 90f triple-lens camera series, with the H90f providing a wired option and the HB90f handling battery-powered installations.
EZVIZ says the three-camera arrangement provides broader coverage alongside 12x mixed zoom, allowing the cameras to retain visibility across large areas while still providing a closer look at distant subjects.
The company specifically points towards applications such as ranches, although large Australian properties, driveways and yards immediately spring to mind as well.
It is an evolution of the company’s previous 90-series dual-camera approach, using multiple focal lengths and viewpoints rather than asking a single sensor and digital zoom to do everything.
CB60 goes beyond the reach of Wi-Fi
For installations where even getting Wi-Fi to the camera is the problem, EZVIZ has also unveiled the CB30 and CB60 Dual 3K battery camera systems.
Both combine dual lenses with high-capacity batteries and magnetic mounting, but the CB60 is the more interesting of the pair.
It supports switchable 4G and Wi-Fi connectivity, allowing it to continue operating in locations beyond the practical reach of the home’s wireless network.
There’s also up to 8x zoom.
That potentially opens the camera up to detached garages, gates, sheds and other remote parts of a property where extending Wi-Fi purely to support a security camera isn’t particularly attractive.
EZVIZ is putting more AI at the front door too
The local AI push isn’t limited to security cameras.
EZVIZ is expanding its smart entry range with the flagship DL50FVX smart lock, combining on-device facial recognition and palm-vein authentication with dual cameras and an integrated display.
The DL50FVX isn’t entirely new to Australians. EZVIZ recently included the lock in its expanded Australian smart home range alongside products including the EP8 Ultra, HB90 Dual Kit, S10 and SD7.
Then there’s the EZVIZ EP8 Ultra, which pushes the video doorbell concept considerably further than the familiar camera-and-button arrangement.
It uses dual cameras, with a 6MP main camera watching approaching visitors and a second 2MP downward-facing camera covering the doorstep and packages.
AI-powered human and package detection are joined by familiar-face recognition, while EZVIZ’s pre-recording system can retain footage from before an event is actually triggered.
The unusual bit is sitting right on the front.
The EP8 Ultra incorporates an AI-powered interactive screen, allowing visitors to interact with animated characters as part of the doorbell experience.
It also uses two removable 9,600mAh batteries, allowing one battery to be swapped while the other keeps the doorbell operating.
Unlike some of the newly unveiled IFA hardware, the EP8 Ultra is already part of EZVIZ’s Australian range.
Smart entry moves beyond the front door
EZVIZ is also targeting larger properties with a more integrated approach to gates and entrances.
The HP7 Pro Video Doorphone combines 4K video, keyless access and centralised management, while the HG2 600 Pro Gate Opener extends that ecosystem out to vehicle access.
It’s an interesting expansion of what we traditionally think of as a smart home security system.
A camera watching a driveway, another monitoring the house, a video doorbell, biometric lock and automated gate are all individually useful devices. Bringing their management and increasingly their AI processing together locally is where the bigger smart-home proposition starts to emerge.
EZVIZ is looking beyond security
EZVIZ isn’t stopping at cameras and locks either.
Its IFA stand also includes new smart cleaning robots and wearable electronics, signalling ambitions for the brand to stretch considerably further into the broader smart home and connected lifestyle market.
That’s arguably the bigger picture behind this year’s announcements.
EZVIZ has historically been best known for security cameras, but the company is increasingly building the pieces of a wider ecosystem around them. Cameras provide the eyes, smart locks and gates provide physical access control, hubs bring devices together, and MIRA and CoreX are intended to provide more of the intelligence behind the whole system.
What about Australia?
There’s an important distinction to make with the IFA announcements.
EZVIZ has not confirmed Australian pricing or availability for the newly unveiled IFA products such as AI CoreX and the new triple-lens 90f series. For now, they provide a look at the direction of EZVIZ’s global portfolio rather than confirmation of what will land locally.
However, several products being showcased as part of the broader IFA range are already available or announced in Australia, including the EP8 Ultra video doorbell and DL50FVX smart lock.
That’s encouraging, because it means at least some of the technology underpinning the broader ecosystem is already making its way here.
The most interesting question now is whether AI CoreX and EZVIZ’s more ambitious local-first AI architecture will follow.
Because while another security camera is easy enough to overlook in an increasingly crowded market, moving more of the storage, processing and intelligence away from somebody else’s cloud and back into your own home is a development worth watching.
