Anker’s MindBase Needs to Be the Smart Hub for Your Life

At IFA 2026, Anker is showcasing a brand new sensible residence hub it’s grandiosely dubbed the MindBase. But it’s additionally greater than a wise residence controller; it has native, expandable NAS-style storage and on-device AI for processing video safety footage. As the corporate rolls out this new gadget, it has one other announcement to make: Anker’s sub-brands Eufy and Soundcore will probably be no extra—quickly, all will probably be Anker.

The MindBase Is a Matter 1.5 controller, which means it may totally operate as the top of your Matter-compatible sensible residence units all by itself—so you possibly can add to it stuff like sensible bulbs, storage door openers, robotic vacuums, or sensors, after which be capable to management these issues via the Anker app. At the identical time, you can too combine the MindBase with Apple Home, Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and Home Assistant.

Besides its sensible residence controller capabilities, the MindBase is sort of a very beefed-up model of the HomeBase safety digicam hubs that Anker has made for years underneath its Eufy sub-brand. It helps as much as 16 wi-fi safety cameras and 4 extra by way of energy over Ethernet should you join an exterior PoE community swap to the MindBase. Anker says those that have already got a HomeBase S380 can switch their footage to the MindBase.

The on-device AI, which Anker is looking its “TrueSmart Agent,” makes use of an in-house LLM powered by a 26 TOPS (a measure of its AI compute energy; for context, Microsoft Copilot PCs have 40 TOPS a minimum of) chip for processing video from related cameras. Anker says its AI agent “evaluates events in real-time to assess risk and respond through observation, lighting, verbal warnings or active deterrence.” The firm plans to launch different AI brokers for the MindBase, together with one for managing residence vitality and one other for issues like sensible cleansing units and home equipment.

Lastly, there’s the NAS storage facet. The MindBase comes with 64GB of inside flash storage, but in addition helps as much as 48TB of extra arduous drive storage. The firm says you’ll be capable to search paperwork you retailer on it—photographs, recordings, information, and so forth—utilizing pure language, and that no private knowledge will probably be offloaded to the cloud. There’s additionally no subscription required for the MindBase or its capabilities.

Anker will probably be promoting a MindBase Security Kit that features the newly introduced Eufy TrackLight Cam S1 and Video Doorbell S4, together with entry and movement sensors, and a Smart Security Shield, which is a sensor the corporate says can “detect strangers from up to 15 meters away, while its DSKey digital credential allows MindBase to recognize family members from up to 30 meters away.” It’s not fully clear to me the way it is aware of who they’re, however I plan to ask Anker as quickly as I’m capable of throughout IFA.

Anker hasn’t but stated how a lot the MindBase will value, nor when it will likely be obtainable.