So the Wall Street Journal tested home security cameras and was annoyed with their performance.
Key problem - they wanted better analytics to accurately and only alert when a real intruder was present, noting:
"The cameras' alerts struggled to differentiate between my family's daily routines and anything more sinister, instead annoying me with a constant string of non-alarms. I'm ready to take them down."
and:
"You end up getting lots of alerts when nothing is wrong: a ping if a tree moves in a heavy wind, a ping if the mail arrives, a ping if Fluffy launches on a midday sprint around the house. An actual break-in could easily get lost in all the pings."
Here's a (goofy) video from the WSJ reporter:
He concludes lamentfully,
"You could just use the cameras in this peek-only mode.
But as a security device, identifying the bad stuff and alerting you to it is what matters."
Ironically, as security professionals, bullet proof alerting remains a challenge even for professional systems, not just sub $200 webcams.