Gabe: Hey folks, this is Gabe at Security Baron.
Do you think you could benefit from having a real-life human watching over your home?
Let's see if that's the right solution in our look at Deep Sentinel.
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Gabe: In today's review of the Deep Sentinel home security system, I'm going to go over
some pros and cons, talk about the system component.
Go over the installation experience, the mobile application, before going over the user experience
and answering some common questions.
Then finally, I'll give you a recap and tell you who I think this system is made for.
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Gabe: For a full breakdown on the Deep Sentinel home security system, check out our comprehensive
written review at SecurityBaron.com.
There you will find tips and guides on how to set up your smart home security system.
Along with the "Safest Cities Guide" that shows you some of the safest cities across
the country.
Once again, this can all be found at SecuirtyBaron.com.
Let's kick off today's review of the Deep Sentinel home security system, going over
some pros and cons, beginning with the pros.
Deep Sentinel is in a high-powered home security system with motion sensors built-in, which
means that it's able to detect people, packages, animals, and cars and process that data to
see if something suspicious is going on.
Secondly, if something is deemed to be off, the real-life sensible guards are alerted,
then they can speak directly to whoever is on the premises and ask them what's going
on, and if necessary call the proper authorities and give an accurate description of what is
taking place.
Finally, the system is well designed and the components are substantive.
When motion is observed or detected, there is a ring of flashing red lights that appear
in the camera itself, serving as a powerful visual deterrent.
When it comes to cons to the Deep Sentinel Home Security System, my primary concern is
the fact that it has no additional security component beyond the camera.
You're essentially fully dependent on you or Deep Sentinel on catching the potential
perpetrator before they enter your home.
For example, if we had an entrance sensor, you would at least know that a door had been
opened or a window had been opened, things of that nature.
If you want that layer of protection, you're going to buy a completely different system.
That's our look at the pros and cons for the Deep Sentinel Home Security System.
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All right, let's get back to the video.
Now that we've gone over the pros and cons for the Deep Sentinel Home Security System,
let's talk about the system components.
The primary components are going to be at your hub, four gigabytes of RAM and 64 gigabytes
of flash storage in your home security cameras.
In terms of charging the cameras, it's interesting.
You charge the batteries inside of the hub itself.
They charge within a couple of hours and they last for a few months.
You're also going to get a power cable, mounting brackets, a lawn sign and window stickers
with your Deep Sentinel Home Security System.
If you'd like to add an extra camera, that's going to be 199 for each camera.
That's a look at the system components for the Deep Sentinel Home Security System.
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Gabe: Now that we've gone over the pros and cons and the system components with the Deep
Sentinel Home Security System, let's jump into its features beginning with an all-important
feature, home-monitoring.
It's $49 a month to have an extra pair of eyes on your property with your Deep Sentinel
Home Security System, which goes out to $588 a year or you can pay all of it upfront.
For a significant discount, it'll be $490 annually.
Remember because the whole point is to have an extra pair of eyes.
There is no self-monitoring option with Deep Sentinel.
Next, let's talk about arming and disarming your system with the Deep Sentinel.
There is no keypad or FOB because there's no arming or disarming this system, into either
being in private mode or being in the typical Deep Sentinel surveillance mode.
You can share access to the system with anyone you'd like, and they can all decide whether
they want to turn off or turn on the system.
What I mean by that, you can decide what each camera is seeing at any given moment.
Private mode means that only you're seeing what's happening on screen.
As with the Deep Sentinel mode, any one of the live guards and Deep Sentinel can see
what's happening.
Maybe if you're having a private event in your backyard and you know people are in the
backyard, you don't have to have that camera on because you don't need it.
Then you just have it in privacy mode.
Those are your options for arming and disarming your Deep Sentinel Home Security System.
Now let's talk about notification with a Deep Sentinel Home Security System.
When it comes to notifications there are two modes.
You have your privacy mode and you have your live mode.
Speaking on privacy, it's only going to tell you what it sees.
Remember this is a camera-based system, so you name each camera so that a camera named
front door is going to tell me it's detected motion at the front door, and that's it because
I'm in privacy mode.
Most of the time you're going to be in that Deep Sentinel live mode where people are watching
your home, making sure that things are OK.
In this sense, you have three tiers in which you can be notified.
The first tier is any time they verify motion.
Anytime they detect something and they look to see, you can be notified so you can go
in and live-stream it yourself if you'd like to.
The second element is you only want to be notified when they intervene.
If they speak to someone or tell someone to move away from your home, you can be notified.
Then the final tier of that is being notified only when law enforcement is on the way.
Now let's talk about the video into an audio quality on the Deep Sentinel Home Security
System.
This is a camera-based surveillance system.
You want to be able to pick things up.
Unfortunately, you can't.
It has 1080p high-definition video which is important because they may call you before
they call the law enforcement in order to actually describe what's happening.
You have to see things well to make sure that everyone knows exactly what's taking place
on your property.
Speaking of property, you want to get that maximum coverage.
Each camera does have a 120-degree field of view so it should be capturing most everything
taking place on your premises.
What about nighttime?
Crimes of convenience also happen in the dark.
Fortunately, it has 16 infrared LED sensors in order to make sure that it can see very
well in the dark, so you shouldn't have any issues when it comes to that.
You want to, of course, be able to intervene in the situations.
If it's not you and your ability to use two-way audio, it may be the folks at Deep Sentinel.
The people at Deep Sentinel have to be able to be heard and hear what's being said.
If they say, "Hey, what are you doing on the property?" they need to hear what's being
said in return.
Fortunately, that's a really clear process with Deep Sentinel cameras and their two-way
audio.
Woman 1: Hello, this is Deep Sentinel Security.
Is there something I can help you with, Miss?
Gabe: The final element is you may just want to scare off an intruder and it does have
a 104-decibel alarm siren built-in.
When it comes to accessing footage on the Deep Sentinel Home Security System, you do
have the ability to access all of it in your mobile application.
In that mobile app, you can download it directly to the mobile device itself.
You can share it with others and you have 64 gigabytes of that cloud storage for free
which is massive.
In turn, the local storage, it's all going to be stored in a flash drive directly on
the device and you also get 64 gigabytes.
When it comes to smart platform integration, Deep Sentinel does not have any smart platform
integrations.
When we asked them why, they responded and frankly understood their reasoning.
They said that they did not want to be susceptible to any type of hacking of other smart hubs
or smart devices, and wanted to focus on security and privacy.
What if you need help?
You can call, email or live chat the Deep Sentinel customer support team.
They also have community forums, FAQs and guides available.
I will note that they seem to still be developing some of these pages as I ran into a few 404
pages.
That's our look at the feature set on the Deep Sentinel Home Security System.
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Gabe: Now let's talk about the installation process with your Deep Sentinel Home Security
System.
You're going to want to download the mobile application to your mobile device.
From there you're going to plug in the Ethernet cable and the power adapter to the hub itself.
You want your hub to be centrally located so it can hit all of the cameras.
Deep Sentinel even wants you to have yours, six to eight feet off the ground.
In my case, I live on a second floor and I didn't have to place it any higher.
It was able to reach a lot of my cameras, no matter how far away they were.
When you're setting it up, once you have the mobile app downloaded, it'll guide you through
the setup experience.
When it's finished, the actual LED will quit blinking and have a solid glow.
When it comes to your camera, you're going to take each camera individually and pair
it with the hub.
You're going to want to be in proximity with the hub before you place it anywhere, but
it's pretty straightforward.
You'll take the battery, make sure it's in the back of the camera itself and then you
just tap on the pairing button.
Once you begin the paring you'll see a white-blinking light around the rim of this camera device.
From there it will pair within a few seconds, then you're going to just take it and place
it where you like to put it outside with the included mounting hardware.
When you're first setting up this system, you've already put in your address.
They know where you are, but in order to make sure that the Deep Sentinel guards are seeing
you, you can go through and make the A sign like the YMCA.
From there they'll know that you are the person that owns the house and that you're setting
up the system and you want that live monitoring to be active.
That's an overview of the installation process with your Deep Sentinel Home Security System.
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Gabe: Now that we have it installed, let's check out the mobile application experience
for the Deep Sentinel Home Security System.
On the Apple App Store, it has a 4.5 out of 5-star rating, which is pretty solid, though
it only has 21 reviews.
In the Google Play Store, it also does well which has 4.4 out of 5-star rating, and that's
going to be out of 25 reviews.
Let's go ahead and check it out on my iPhone.
Here I am checking out the Deep Sentinel mobile application.
You'll note right from the top, you see that the recent events, the verified event that
takes place.
Let's go out and check that out.
Here you can see a video.
This is one of my buddies.
We share the same mail.
He's just checking them out to see if anything came, looking to see if anyone dropped off
any packages.
When you note that they don't call the police or anything because this is New York City,
a lot of people share mail boxes and spaces, so it's very clear that he was there checking
out to make sure that nothing was there.
He's been there over the course of a week, so the live Sentinel guards have gotten used
to his presence.
If we wanted to go and look at a live view of the same space, we can do so.
Takes a moment for it to come.
It'll take three or five seconds and now look.
We're seeing exactly where that just was.
You can see the various icons.
You see the sound and the left, the walkie-talkie on the bottom right.
I could speak directly to whoever happens to be on the other side myself because right
now I am on privacy mode.
If I wanted to go to the protection, you can just make your own zones here.
There are a lot of points you can make a pretty specific zone.
I can just move around to what I want and see where I can give some privacy to those
neighbors coming down, or maybe I want to see if anyone's going to come down into this
space, and boom, there we have it.
Let's get out of here, and I can do the same from my side door.
I want to point out, you see these like eyelashes where the privacy is on.
This essentially means that the live Sentinel guards' eyes are close to your property.
Now you can do just one or you can do two.
If I wanted to just turn off the privacy on one, I can do so.
Now it's not watching the front door view but it will watch the side door view.
Remember we have two setups at the moment, but you get three cameras with your Deep Sentinel
System and you can add more, which is useful.
Their privacy is what I was going to turn it off and now we've turned off the privacy
altogether.
All of my systems are being watched.
That there's guards on duty.
Let's see what that process looks like.
A guard was looking at me this morning as I walked around, the space skews the feed.
I just used this one just so I can get an idea of what's going on, and then I can go
ahead and decide on, looking at the entire history of what's taking place.
If I go into the history, you can see the names of the guards, the moment the event
took place and go back to Sunday, Monday.
You have a lot of different events that you can watch.
So when I was initially setting up a different camera, a different space, eating some Apple
Jacks.
You can see in the kitchen and go into the home space.
I go into my account and here you can see the different devices.
I can add a new device or add a new camera.
That entire process would be pretty straight forward.
I can add a range-extender for those if you have a larger property.
You will definitely want something like a range-extender, and all of these elements
are right here.
Let's go out and talk a bit about what the actual icons are.
You have verified guard-intervened, which means that someone is either talking to a
person, maybe asking them what they're doing in a speculative space in around your home,
or they can even activate the siren or if it seems bad, someone's stealing something
or someone's trying to get into your home.
There might be an emergency situation and even law enforcement can come onto the property.
You have different options there for Deep Sentinel in terms of letting you know exactly
what's taking place because when you're at work, you can't be watching all of this all
the time.
That's our look at the Deep Sentinel mobile application.
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Gabe: Now I want to talk about my personal experience with Deep Sentinel.
You probably know that I live in New York.
Frankly, I don't know if I'm the exact person or demographic that Deep Sentinel is pushing
this device towards because I live in a city that has 8 million people constantly walking
in and out.
You're constantly interacting interface with the people.
I frankly think [laughs] that it should be overwhelming to Deep Sentinel.
That being said, they actually did pretty well.
Each time someone came on to my house, I would know.
In terms of a neighbor or a mail person or delivery person or anything of that nature,
I was notified and they would verify the motion to see who it was.
It was really useful.
We saw that there were some weird things happening with people dropping off packages and maybe
taking packages, and we were able to catch that with the Deep Sentinel.
This has been a bit of a scourge in Brooklyn as of late.
I like the element of it that they talk to the person first, instead of just an immediate
call to the police, which is not necessarily what you want.
That conversation is useful.
In fact, it was an interesting moment in which my landlord's partner was going through the
mail.
We all share the same mailbox but because she wasn't recognized, they spoke directly
to her.
They called me directly and they gave me a description.
From there I was able to say I know who that is, and it wasn't escalated any further.
Then maybe in the future, I'm assuming that that will become an understood element of
the Deep Sentinel Home Security System, as it pertains to my particular home.
I do want to point out that I do believe that the Deep Sentinel may work for places that
are a little bit less trafficked than New York City.
My parents live in the suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee and there they don't get people
coming into their front yard without one reason or another.
If anyone comes up, it is useful for that to happen in terms of someone intervening,
someone speaking to that visitor because generally speaking, my parents are going to know when
people are coming.
Someone in a city wouldn't have the same experience.
I have a million people coming to my door every day.
My brothers live in the neighborhood.
They're coming often.
It's just a little bit more difficult, a little bit more of a process.
I don't think you'd have those concerns as much if you lived in the suburbs.
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Gabe: Now I want to answer some common questions about the Deep Sentinel Home Security System,
beginning with how this Deep Sentinel works.
Well, Deep Sentinel uses is both artificial intelligence and real-life human guards watching
your system to make sure that nothing suspicious is taking place on your property.
The second question is, does Deep Sentinel work with police departments.
Yes, Deep Sentinel was created in collaboration with about 50 police departments.
Because of that collaboration and the fact that there are real-life guards watching,
they will respond faster to calls from the Deep Sentinel System.
The third question is, does Deep Sentinel work with any smart platforms like Amazon
or Google.
The answer is no.
Deep Sentinel purposely does not work with any smart platforms.
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Gabe: Now I want to provide you with the brief recap, telling you who I think the Deep Sentinel
Home Security System is made for.
I honestly feel that this system is made for someone who wants a strong defense perimeter
for their home.
That can push out a great deal because Deep Sentinel does have a range-extenders for their
cameras.
You just have to be OK with occasionally having to recharge using the hub, the batteries and
then putting them back out because they're going to last for a number of months.
The second person the Deep Sentinel Home Security System is for, is the person who does not
want to be lit up with notifications throughout the day.
If you want to delegate the watching, the surveilling of your home to a professional
team, Deep Sentinel can definitely do that for you.
The final person that this system is for, is the person who already has an interior
home security system.
The person who just wants to extend that home security beyond the confines of the home to
the entire perimeter of their property and Deep Sentinel can definitely fill that role.
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Gabe: All right.
That's our review of the Deep Sentinel Home Security System.
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As always, this is Gabe with Security Baron.
Be secure.