Smart, AI-enhanced scalable security

Run 4 or 4,000 cameras — licensing is still $0. UniFi Protect handles all AI and recording locally, eliminating cloud fees and paid AI add-ons.

Why UniFi Protect

On-camera AI

Edge computing runs Smart Detections on the camera itself — person, vehicle, package and face events processed locally.

Alarm Manager

If-this-then-that automations with granular triggers and actions, like playing a message on a speaker when a camera detects motion.

Zero recurring cost

No per-camera licensing, no cloud storage bill. Footage lives on your UNVR or gateway drive.

Enhanced retention

Older footage is intelligently reduced in quality to keep months — or years — of history without more drives.

Video walls

Multi-site video walls are native in Site Manager, unifying camera streams across locations.

ONVIF support

Bring existing third-party cameras into UniFi Protect, making migration easy.

AI that finds the clip for you

Instantly search footage with Smart Detections, set alerts via Alarm Manager, and receive real-time facial-recognition notifications — all processed on the camera, not in someone else's cloud.

Vehicle and audio classification

Identify and label faces with AI-series cameras, find vehicles by type and color, and filter incidents by audio events such as glass breaking or a smoke alarm.

Automations with Alarm Manager

Set granular triggers and actions across cameras, doors and sensors — lights on at motion, a chime at the gate, a push notification when a door is held open.

Storage you control

Storage Manager gives effortless control over NVR storage — expand incrementally, monitor drive health, and get instant failure alerts. Archive to Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive.