An intelligent face recognition system for an installed security system can include a camera and a local or remote video processor including a face recognition engine. The video processor can be configured to receive the image information from the one or more cameras, and generate an alert for communication to a user device based on a recognition event in the environment. In an example, the face recognition engine is configured to apply machine learning to analyze images from the camera and determine whether the images include or correspond to an enrolled face, and the face recognition engine is configured to provide the recognition event based on the determination.