Qolsys Wins Benchmark Award For Alarms Innovation.
Qolsys Wins Benchmark Award – Johnson Controls’ Qolsys IQ Panel has won a Benchmark Innovation Awards 2022 in the ‘Alarm – Detection’ category.
With a 7-inch HD, edge-to-edge, capacitive glass screen, IQ Panel 4 is a compact and capable integrated polycarbonate hub comprising processor, comms modules, screen, storage, speakers, sensors, camera, microphone, battery and more.
The huge capacitive touchscreen is 1280 x 800 pixels and with a brightness of 300cd/m2, it really pops. The processor is an 8-core Qualcom Snapdragon system configured as a system-on-module with 16GB of flash and running Android 9 as a security and home automation touch and swipe interface.
Giving access to the screen are up to 242 role-based user codes, including options like installer, master, user, guest and a separate code giving entry while signalling you’re under duress. There’s also Bluetooth disarm and audio streaming Bluetooth low energy (BLE) 4.2.
Qolsys Wins Benchmark Award For Alarms Innovation
The hub includes 4 QuadSound front-facing 4W speakers and an 85-decibel siren. There’s a front-facing fixed camera in the hub with a tilt adjustment that has a resolution of 8MP and offers a 120-degree angle of view.
Audio is handled by 3 MEMS microphones with echo cancellation. There’s panel and wall tamper with spring release, as well as smash and grab reporting. The hub includes a wake/sleep button on the fascia, with all other controls well handled by the touch interface.
Comms include Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac dual-band 2.4/5GHz, with built-in access point capability, integrated cellular LTE category 4, Z-Wave Plus (700) offering the ability to handle 137 devices, including up to 80 lights, up to 20 locks, up to 10 thermostats, up to 6 garage doors, and up to 21 miscellaneous devices.
Of particular interest to installers supporting SME and small commercial and small industrial applications, there is 2 panel wireless device flavours, standard 433Mhz wireless, which supports 128 devices, and PowerG, supporting 128 devices with monster ranges of up to 2000 metres and 2-way encryption.
You can find out more about Qolsys from the BGW Technologies team here read a review of Qolsys IQ4 here, or read more SEN news here.
“Qolsys Wins Benchmark Award For Alarms Innovation.”
