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TUXEDO Touch™ by Honeywell: BRING YOUR HOME TO LIFE

Talk about convenience! You’ll know how to use the Tuxedo Touch controller the first time you see it. It’s intuitive, easy to learn and easy to use whether you’re controlling your security and home control functions, viewing and recording video, or using voice commands.

GIVE YOUR HOME A VOICE HANDS-FREE HOME CONTROL

Simply say "Hello Tuxedo" to bring your home to life. The convenient, built-in voice commands can be configured to suit your lifestyle and needs. Your mornings can run more smoothly by saying "Wake Up" and having your shades raise and the heat turned up to the perfect temperature. Ready to turn in for the night? Just say "Bedtime" to arm your security system, turn off your lights, lock your doors and set back your thermostats. Say hello to convenience and peace of mind!

At ISC West 2014, Honeywell’s Tuxedo Touch with Voice Control is demonstrated.  Let’s listen in:

The beauty of a connected home is that it allows you to control a variety of devices, based upon your particular needs.  You can do this based upon time, or you can do this based upon an action that you want to have in your home.

Typically, you would do this using the touch screen or a mobile device – to control all these actions.  But with our new release of software, you can use your voice to do these same, exact actions.

So let’s say at night, you want to go to sleep and shut your lights, lock your front door, put down your shade and set back your thermostat:  you would just give a command, and all these things would happen! It’s really simple; it’s all part of the Honeywell user experience.

Let me show you:

“Hello Tuxedo!”

“Hello!  Please say your command.”

“Bedtime.”

“Processing bedtime command.”

And all of those things happened in one, easy command.

Watch the whole demonstration here:

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Established in 1990, Victory World Church began with six people meeting in the living room of a small apartment. Now, the church is a thriving multi-cultural organization with a main campus in Norcross, Georgia that welcomes more than 8,500 people to multiple services each weekend. The non-denominational ministry has expanded to include two satellite campuses in the greater Atlanta area, and in 2009, Victory World was one of 100 churches identified by Outreach Magazine as one of the fastest growing multi-ethnic churches in America.

The Situation

Three Victory World campuses welcome more than 10,000 members and offer child care and youth services as well as worship services in English and Spanish to worshippers from over 100 nations. It’s a priority to provide a safe haven in which individuals from many different cultural backgrounds feel secure.

To accommodate its growth throughout its 20-year history, Victory World recently began construction of a new facility (Victory North in Kennesaw), and started renovations to an additional site (Hamilton Mill in Buford). Church officials had worked with Scott Hightower from Atlanta-based Remote Protection Systems to upgrade security at the main Victory Atlanta campus, so they turned again to him for a cost-effective solution for the new sites.

“Scott did a great job helping us update the security for Victory Atlanta, so we took everything we learned and incorporated those things into the Victory North and Hamilton Mill sites at the beginning of construction,” said Dennis James, director of church security. “That made it much easier on us,” he said

The Solution

“Victory World wants the latest technology to protect their property, and they also work hard to stay within their budget,” said Scott Hightower, president of Remote Protection Systems.

“We put in a Honeywell system that integrates video surveillance, intrusion detection, and user-friendly access control. It’s perfect for their needs now, and it will expand with them as they continue to grow.”

Hightower recommended a combination of high definition dome cameras and high-resolution day/night fixed cameras to provide complete coverage of the church properties during the day and at night. Surveillance footage is retained by a mix of HRXD and HRSD digital video recorders.

Access to the buildings is easily handled with WIN-PAK® access control software. “We have 850 staff and volunteers who have access to different areas; plus, people are constantly changing roles,” said James. “Someone might leave employment with Victory but continue to volunteer, which might change areas where they need access. I used to spend a lot of time making new cards and deleting old ones. The Honeywell system makes it easy to go in and update a card right away.”

Full version: http://www.honeywellsystems.com/documents/L_VWCCS_D.pdf

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You can’t be at your business 24/7, but we can.  Installing Honeywell motion sensors in your business enables you to harness the power of Honeywell’s technology for your protection.

In an intrusion detection system, the motion detector is a wall-mounted sensor that detects motion within the protected area, and then analyzes the motion to determine if an actual intruder causes it.

When the motion detector determines that an intruder causes the motion, it sends a data message to the system control panel for processing.

When there is no motion in the protected area, the motion detector sends a data message to the control panel, indicating that the area is in a normal, idle condition.

Users see status and alarms from the sensor at the local keypad. The control panel can also send a message to the monitoring station.

Reasons to Choose this Sensor

The motion detector provides some important advantages. To provide better analysis of motion within an area, we included Dual-Tec™ technology: Passive Infrared (PIR) and Microwave detection. The detector continuously supervises both PIR and Microwave channels to ensure maximum performance. Advanced dual-slope temperature compensation allows the detector to automatically compensate for background temperature variants by dynamically setting the sensor’s gain to the most effective level.

To minimize false alarms caused by air conditioners and heaters, we included the capability for automatic adaptation to environmental disturbances. An infinite rejection of disturbances caused by fluorescent lights, with a patented digital filter, further reduces the likelihood of false activations.

For more accurate calibration of the sensing regions, we included a special environmental test feature, which allows installers to check for environmental disturbances on both the PIR and microwave at the same time. For the best security against tampering, we provided tamper switches on the front cover and the back of case.

Design Considerations

Locate the motion detector on a wall inside of the protected area. For best results, locate the motion detector in a corner, or on a wall that is perpendicular to the door and windows. Avoid aiming motion detectors at moving displays, vents, or directly at windows.

See more here:  http://www.security.honeywell.com/star/HSCE_Files/Files/E-I-MotionWide.htm

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