What is Arlo Smart and how can I benefit from it?
Arlo Smart offers intelligent services for greater control over how you view, manage, connect and respond to events that occur around your home or business. Create custom activity zones to focus on important areas and receive alerts when something happens. Arlo smart can tell the difference between a person, animal, vehicle, or a package. You can view your Arlo Smart recordings for 30 days. Learn more about Arlo Smart Plans.
The benefits of Arlo Smart
Enhance your security experience with Arlo Smart, and you’ll receive more intelligent motion alerts so that you can take quick action, such as call a friend, sound an alarm, or call emergency services. To access these options, tap and hold an Arlo rich notification on your mobile device.

Get alerts from only the areas you choose, like your front door or driveway, with custom activity zones.

Your cameras can tell the difference between a person, animal, vehicle, or package when you enable Smart Object Detection.

Using Arlo Smart
You need an Arlo Smart subscription to get started. For more information about subscription options, visit Arlo Smart Plans.
Learn more about the exciting Arlo Smart feature offering:
- Advanced Object Detection. Set your Arlo camera to detect people, animals, vehicles, and/or alarms. For more information, visit What are the Arlo Smart advanced object detection features?.
- Package Detection. Receive rich notifications when your Arlo camera sees a package being picked up or dropped off. For more information, visit Arlo Smart Package Detection.
- Custom Activity Zones. Create activity zones to focus motion notifications in a certain area. For more information, visit What are activity zones and how do I create them?.
- 4K and 2K Cloud Recording. Record to the Arlo cloud in your camera’s highest video resolution. For more information, visit What are the available Arlo subscription plans and how much cloud recording is available?.
- Support Center. Easily get assistance for your Arlo device directly in the Arlo app. For more information, visit What is the Support Center and how do I use it?.
- e911. Call emergency dispatchers closest to the address that you specified in the Arlo app. For more information, visit What is the Arlo Smart e911 feature and how does it work?.
Note: e911 is only available in the US. - Call a Friend. Quickly call a friend from the Arlo app.
View Arlo Smart Plans.