Amazon’s Alexa Home Map rewinds 24 hours of home camera activity in 3D

Amazon today introduced Alexa Home Map, an interactive 3D model of a house and its grounds that places Echo speakers, Ring and Blink cameras, Fire TV sets, lights, locks and thermostats in the rooms where they physically sit, and lets them be controlled by tapping them on screen. The feature will start rolling out in preview later this year on a new Alexa Home Map app for iOS, inside the Alexa and Ring apps, on Amazon’s larger Echo Show devices including the new Echo Show 16, on the Amazon Ember Artline with Fire TV, and on the new Alexa Tablets, according to a post Amazon published today on its news site under the byline “Amazon Staff.”

Building the map takes three inputs: a street address, a walk-through scan of each room with an iPhone, and the manual placement of each device. The result is a detailed record of a home’s floors, rooms and connected hardware, tied to live feeds from outdoor cameras. Amazon’s post describes what the map shows at length. It says nothing about…