Cameras have always been good at one thing: recording. They keep everything, then wait for you to go looking, and nobody has the evening free to scrub through a day of footage. We built Helios to do the opposite. It does the watching, notices what matters for your place, and tells you before you think to ask.
This quarter, four things changed what a day with Helios feels like. Each morning begins with a short written brief, for you or for your whole team. The same person walking past three cameras on four different days is now one person, not a pile of detections. You can search footage the way you would describe it to a friend. And when you draw a box around a face, Helios tells you if they come back. One more thing changed quietly: the house now arms itself when the last person leaves, and stands down when you are home.
Everything below runs on your jupyter Hub, in your home or your business, so your footage and faces stay with you, and it's part of Helios Essentials on the web and in the SecureProtect app, with no subscription. Here's what's new, how it works, and why we built it.
The Morning Brief
Know how yesterday went before the day begins.
At 7:30 every morning, Helios writes a short story about yesterday: for a homeowner starting the day, or a duty manager before the shift. Not a list of alerts. A few sentences, written the way a good concierge would tell you.
Monday · 7:30 am · two mornings
A parent packing school lunches reads that yesterday was quieter than a usual Sunday, and that nothing needs them. Across town, a clinic manager reads that the waiting room was busiest between 10 and 11, and plans the roster around it.
What jupyter does. The same Morning Brief for both: a few plain sentences about yesterday, compared with a usual day like it, and whether anything needs you. Both are done reading before the bag is packed.
7:30 am
It learns what a usual day looks like.
Helios learns the rhythm of your place, so the brief tells you how busy yesterday was compared with a usual day like it, and when the busy moments were. A raw count means little on its own. Set against your own normal, it tells you whether to care.
Context
It allows for public holidays.
A quiet Monday means something different on a long weekend. Helios understands the public holidays for your state and region, so a quiet or busy day arrives with its reason attached, and a holiday does not read as a worry.
Every word is a door
Tap a word, see the moment.
A parcel at the door, a delivery at the loading dock, a returning face, a car in the driveway. Every moment in the day’s story opens the footage at that exact point, so checking a claim takes one tap instead of a search.
Wherever you are
On your lock screen and in your inbox.
The brief arrives as a notification from the SecureProtect app, and Helios can email it each morning to the people you choose in Helios Settings, whether that is the family or the whole team, in a clean, simple layout. Everyone who needs to know, knows, without anyone forwarding anything.
Unique faces
See who came by, not a hundred detections.
Every sighting, from every camera, on every day, is grouped into the person it belongs to.
Thursday · 4:20 pm · who is who
Your kids’ friends come and go all week. At the front desk of a small business, the same courier drops off every afternoon.
What jupyter does. Helios groups every sighting into the person it belongs to, so you see a handful of people instead of hundreds of detections, and name them once.
One walk past three cameras can produce dozens of sightings. A list that long tells you nothing. What you want to know is who it was.
Helios now clusters faces into unique people. A face seen at the front door on Monday and at the side gate on Thursday is the same person, and Helios counts them once. You see who came by, who keeps coming back, and who is new, and you can name someone once to have them recognised everywhere from then on.
We also rebuilt how faces look. Helios now finds the sharpest frame of each face from the camera's full-resolution stream, so the faces in People, in search and in your brief are crisp enough to recognise at a glance. That matters most at the moment you need to be sure it was him, and not a tiny blur.
Returning faces
Spot the regulars, and the one who is not.
Helios highlights faces that return across different days. For a family that's the cleaner, the neighbour and the kids' friends. For a business it's your loyal customers, and the stranger who has walked the car park three evenings in a row.
It is the difference between a camera that saw something and a system that noticed something. As always, AI can make mistakes, so a returning face is a prompt to look, not a verdict.
Visual search
Find the one minute you need with a sentence.
"Courier with a parcel." "White van at the loading dock." "Someone in a hoodie at night." Helios understands the description and takes you to the moment.
Friday · 6:45 pm · a missing parcel
The tracking says delivered. The porch says otherwise.
What jupyter does. Type courier with a parcel. Helios takes you to the moment, with the matching words highlighted and a picture for every result. You have your answer, and a clip to send to the courier, in the time it took to type the sentence.
Search that shows its work
See why it chose each result, and refine in a tap.
Every result now comes with a clear thumbnail, and the words that matched are highlighted so you can see why Helios chose it. Tap a keyword to search for it, or tap the picture to play the clip.
An hour of scrubbing through footage becomes a few seconds and a sentence.
Watch list and alarm
Draw a box once. Hear first if they ever come back.
The watch list turns a single frame into standing protection: the person who tried your side gate, or a patron a venue has banned.
Saturday · 11:12 pm · a face at the gate
The same stranger tried the side gate last week. Tonight he is back.
What jupyter does. You drew a box around his face once, last week. Now you, or whoever is on shift, hear first, from any camera, while he is still at the gate.
Step one
Draw a box.
Pause any clip or open any event, and draw a box around a face. That's it. No uploads, no forms.
Step two
Helios finds the clearest face.
It pulls the sharpest version of that face from the full-resolution recording, so the watch list is built on a face you can actually recognise.
From then on
You hear first.
If that face appears on any camera, you, or whoever is on shift, get an alert straight away. With a Halo, your place can respond too, with a spoken warning or a loud siren, depending on how you've set it up.
Arming, without a thought
A place that arms itself, and stands down when you are home.
The best moment to arm a place is the moment the last person leaves. Helios notices that moment for you.
Sunday · 5:48 pm · home from the weekend
The car pulls into the driveway with everyone asleep in the back.
What jupyter does. Your phone's geofence tells the house you are nearly home, the household Keyfob confirms it at the door, and the house stands down as you walk in. No code to tap with your arms full.
“Cameras should never make you do the watching. Helios watches, notices what is unusual for your place, and tells you what matters.”Temi Akinloye
Included with every Hub
Everything in this update is part of Helios Essentials, which comes with every jupyter Hub and needs no subscription. There are no cloud storage fees, because your footage and your faces stay on your Hub, where they've always been. Voice, AI answers and calls are Helios Pro.
We're only getting started. If you'd like to see where this goes for hotels, apartment buildings, commercial property and public spaces, read The quiet control room.