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Jun 20, 2023

Best Smart Floodlight Security Cameras for Smart Homes

Ring is known for starting the market for smart video doorbells, an essential

Ring is known for starting the market for smart video doorbells, an essential smart home security device today. But Ring is also one of the first companies to bring to market a smart floodlight camera. It launched its Ring Floodlight Cam in 2017 and added the Ring Floodlight Cam Pro (Wired) in February 2021. And for those who don't know what a Floodlight Cam is, it's the combination of smart lights and a security camera in one device, which can be either battery or wired power.

Since then, several smart home security companies and camera manufacturers have introduced floodlight cameras. Some of these cameras say they are smart floodlight cameras, but they are really spotlight cams or security cameras with just one light versus two smart lights or LED panels. For this roundup, we will help you better understand who makes a good reliable floodlight camera which we define as a device with two spotlights or smart LED panels attached to a smart security camera. And each of these cameras has been tested by a GearBrain reviewer and recommended by our staff depending on how you secure your smart home.

Here is our list of the best smart floodlight security cameras for 2023:

Ring

The Ring Floodlight Cam Pro (2nd Gen) has two LED floodlights with 2000 lumens. Its features include 3D Motion Detection, a 110 db siren, color night vision, and a radar sensor to let you know immediately when someone or something has crossed the distance threshold set by the property owner in the Ring app. You can set up customized motion and privacy zones and get a Bird's Eye view of your property, a feature you can only get with Ring outdoor security cameras.

Ring Floodlight Cam Pro also works with Amazon Alexa-enabled devices. If you have an Amazon Alexa smart display, you can easily view live streams from your Ring Floodlight Cam Pro and use voice commands to start recording or sound the siren.

The Ring Floodlight Cam Pro costs $249.99 and is available on Ring site, Amazon, Best Buy, Home Depot, and other consumer electronics retailers. It comes with a Plug-In Mount for flexible, non-stop power, and you plug it into a standard outlet. It comes in white or black. Also, if you don't want to mess with the wiring of this camera, you can pay $20 more and get the Ring Floodlight Cam Pro Plug-in. This is great if your home doesn't have a junction box or outdoor wiring.

Vivint Spotlight Pro is both a floodlight and spotlight camera in one. This floodlight camera has an upgraded image sensor, a new computer vision chip that works with the camera, and an image sensor to detect visitors. The company has added a new advanced unique lighting system to their Vivint's Outdoor Camera Pro (Gen 2) to offer a unique outdoor security camera system. Users can control the lights and view videos using the Vivint app. They can also easily change the light setting to flood their yard or outside their home.

The best new feature of Vivint's new outdoor floodlight security camera is its Smart Deters technology. This technology is built into the device and helps deter unwanted visitors from approaching your house. It can even detect the person's location and follow them as they move from one part of your yard to the next. When activated with deter technology, the lighting effects are attention grabbers and effective.

Vivint's Spotlight Pro costs $249.99 and is available only from Vivint. The only issue with this floodlight cam is you have to be a Vivint customer. And you will need a service plan. You can learn more about the service plans from Vivint by clicking here.

If you are in the market for a professionally installed and monitored smart home security system, we recommend Vivint Smart Home. They might be more expensive than a DIY system. Still, they provide options for integrating smart home devices and give you a high level of professional installation and monitoring to protect your home.

Read our full review of Vivint Spotlight Pro here.

Lorex

​One issue you must deal with when buying any smart security camera is what to do with all the recorded videos. Many companies charge monthly to store videos in the cloud, while others offer local storage. Lorex's new 2K Wired Floodlight Security Camera provides a 32 GB MicroSD card with purchase to store your videos on the camera. You can easily access the videos using the Lorex Home app and upgrade the MicroSD card to 256 GB if you expect to have a lot of videos.

Lorex's floodlight cam features adjustable dual LED panels with 2400 lumens that you can adjust the LED brightness and color temperature, an IP65 Weatherproof rating, 2K video resolution (4MP - @ 15 fps), 8X digital zoom, 2-way talk, a diagonal 122-degree field of view (FOV), microphone, speaker, and a built-in siren. It works on a 2.4/5GHz Wi-Fi connection and has two types of night vision: infrared (IR) night vision without ambient lighting or color night vision with ambient lighting. Both settings provide crystal-clear pictures with 2K video resolution up to 33 feet away at night.

Besides the local storage, the other feature that sets this floodlight cam apart is its motion detection and auto-framing capabilities. Its motion detection can recognize an object, whether a person, animal, or vehicle. Using the Lorex app, you can set the detection to send an alert when motion is detected. And with auto framing activated and motion detected, the Lorex security camera will automatically track, follow and zoom in on a person or vehicle as they move across our property. A new type of security feature not often found in smart floodlight cams.

The Lorex Wired Floodlight Camera has an MSRP of $249.99 and is available in black or white. You can purchase this 2K wired floodlight camera on the company website, Amazon, eBay, and other consumer electronics retailers.

Read our Lorex 2K Wired Floodlight Security Camera Review

Google Nest Cam with Floodlight

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​If you are a Google Assistant smart home and want all your devices to work seamlessly in one app, we have the perfect smart floodlight to help secure the outside of your home. It's theGoogle Nest Cam with floodlight. This is Google Nest's first connected floodlight camera and joins the other Nest Cam security camera lineup. It comes with on-device machine learning and won't just react to any movement but specific motion. For example, a dog walking at night will alert the floodlight, but not a car passing by.

Additional features include two LED lights with 2400 lumens, 20 feet visibility with night vision, IP 54 rated weather resistance, and 25 feet with 180° motion detection. It works with both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant-enabled devices. And you can store up to 3 hours of videos for free. If you want more time, Google offers Nest Aware plans for storing videos in the cloud.

The Google Nest Cam with Floodlight comes in Snow (white) and has an MSRP of $279.99. But they are running a sale on their site for a lot less and online consumer electronics retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, and Home Depot.

Swann Floodlight Security Camera

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The best floodlight camera with the most significant night vision field of view is Swann 4K Floodlight Security Camera. This smart floodlight cam is a smart home security device with a floodlight and a 4K (8MP) HD video camera. It features two-way communication, a warning siren, a motion sensor, and a floodlight with 2600 lumens. It also comes with local storage via a 32 GB MicroSD card included in the box and cloud backup (1 day). You also get Swann's True Detect technology, which uses heat sensing to trigger recordings and alerts.

Swan's 4K Floodlight camera has a PIR sensor of up to 26 feet (8 meters) and a 270-degree range. The camera's night vision uses infrared and ranges 65 feet (20 meters) in the dark without floodlights. But when the floodlights are on, the camera has a 100 feet (30 meters) range for color videos. It also has a 115-degree field of view (FOV) and a siren that goes up to 70 dB.

Swann offers a variety of outdoor security cameras that work on Wi-Fi connection and can be part of their DVR or NVR systems. However, the Swann 4K Floodlight Security Camera is the only smart floodlight security camera. It has an MSRP of $199.99 and is available on their site, Amazon, Best Buy, The Home Depot, and other consumer electronics and home improvement sites.

Blink Floodlight Cam

Amazon

Blink Floodlight Cam is a unique smart floodlight camera. It is the combination of Blink's wireless smart security Outdoor camera (3rd Gen), and an exceptional fit LED mount that you attach to the Blink Outdoor Camera to make a smart floodlight camera. Blink's Outdoor Camera comes in Black and White versions, but if you want the LED Mount, it is only available in Black.

This smart floodlight camera system includes a two-year battery, 700 lumens for the LED lights, two-way talk, 1080p HD video resolution, customized motion zones, infrared night vision, weather resistance, and a 30-day free cloud storage trial. If needed, you could add a Blink Sync Module 2 to get a local hold. And it works with Amazon Alexa-enabled devices, so you can easily view live videos on your Alexa smart displays from your Blink Floodlight Cam.

This year, the Blink Floodlight Cam is one of our list's less expensive smart floodlight cameras. It has an MSRP of $129.98 but is on sale for much less. And if you already have a Blink Outdoor Security Camera, you can buy just the Floodlight Kit for only $39.99 on Amazon. Check out Amazon for the latest sales price. You can also get Blink Floodlight Cam at Best Buy and Home Depot.

Arlo Pro 3 Wireless Floodlight Camera

Arlo

Next up on our list is Arlo Pro 3 Wireless Floodlight Camera. This smart floodlight camera is 100% wire-free and features a bright LED-powered floodlight (2000-3000 lumens), a built-in 2K video camera with HDR, a rechargeable battery, and works on a Wi-Fi connection. It has a 160-degree field of view (FOV), weather resistance, a built-in siren, color night vision, and an Arlo Secure trial.

One interesting feature of Arlo Pro 3 Wireless Floodlight Camea is its ability to work with all the major voice assistant platforms. This Arlo floodlight cam is the only smart floodlight camera that works with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple HomeKit, Samsung SmartThings, and IFTTT platforms. If you are in the market for a smart floodlight camera and are building a smart home ecosystem but are unsure which platform you want to use, Arlo's floodlight camera is a good choice since it can quickly adapt to any direction you plan to go. (Note: you can use The GearBrain, our smart home compatibility find engine, to help you find, buy and connect any smart device. It will help you build your smart home quickly and easily.)

Arlo Pro 3 Wireless Floodlight Camera has an MSRP of $249.99 and is available in white or black. You can pick one up on the company site or Amazon., NewEgg, Best Buy, and other home improvement and consumer electronics sites.

Wyze Cam Floodlight

Wyze

​If your budget is small and you want a reliable smart floodlight camera to help keep an eye on the outside of your smart home, Wyze Cam Floodlight is one to consider. This smart floodlight cam costs only $99.99 and is usually on sale for less. It comes with 270 degrees of customizable motion detection, 2600 lumens, two-way talk, color night vision 1080p HD video resolution, 105 dB siren, and an extra USB port to add more Wyze outdoor cameras to your floodlight.

Wyze offers a "dusk-to-dawn" automation, so you don't have to worry about turning your lights on or off daily. Wyze of rs a "dusk-to-dawn" automation, so you don't have to worry about turning your lights on or off daily. Wyze offers a "dusk-to-dawn" automation, so you don't have to worry about turning your lights on or off daily. Wyze offers a "dusk-to-dawn" automation, so you don't have to worry about turning your lights on or off daily. he Wyze floodlight cam also has three individually controlled PIR sensors to help detect motion up to 30 Feet away. Andd users can adjust the sensitivity in the Wyze app and when their lights should go on and off.

Wyze Cam Floodlight Cam is available on Amazon, Best Buy, and the company site.

Any of these smart floodlight security cameras are worth buying if you are in the market for one. We would recommend you buy one that works with your existing smart home security system so you have unified control of your home's security. And if you don't have a smart home security system but looking to start one, any of these floodlight cams will provide a good foundation for you and our product find engine can help you find other smart security cameras or systems that will work wieht any of these floodlight cams. Just sign up and tells us what you want to work together and our platform will do the rest.

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