Iris
Touch's Quantum Jump in User-friendly Alarms-Over-IP
Chiron
Security Communications has introduced a major update to its Iris range
IP alarm transmission and monitoring system. Benefiting from over two
years' intensive development work, Iris Touch provides a variety of significant,
user-friendly features as well as a fresh new design and operating interface
that makes life much easier for end users and installers alike.
Security
professionals, rather than IT experts, can install Iris Touch while commissioning
the equipment is akin to the ease of setting up a home broadband connection.
The key to this simplicity is a specially designed touch-screen interface
and an intuitive laptop program that makes each step clear, self-explanatory
and self-correcting.
For security users, Iris Touch works seamlessly with existing installations
and is independently certified to the highest European standards, while
being approved worldwide by major insurers. Iris Touch offers all the
advantages of alarms-over-IP transmission and monitoring technology, including
substantial operational cost savings (eg 50-70% compared with conventional
RedCare links), remote troubleshooting, remote CCTV camera control and
proven network resilience through constant dual-path back-up communication
via PSTN, GSM or GPRS routes.
The Iris Touch range employs the latest technology processors, making
the equipment over 20% more cost-effective than existing Iris units, as
well as backwards compatible with all existing alarm diallers in current
use. This ability to interface with legacy systems allows existing alarm
installations to be converted to fully-functioning IP without fuss.
Iris Touch 200 is the introductory level in the range, comprising a stand-alone
solution built around a stylish, ergonomically designed consumer operating
unit. Like all Iris Touch models, the 200 series features a user-friendly
touch screen that makes commissioning and day-to-day operation simple
and error-free. Model features include the ability to send and receive
SMS messages, alternately transmit via fixed wire IP network (such as
ADSL, corporate LAN/WAN or VPN), or connect through GPRS or GSM. Iris
Touch 200 models also boast Iris' unique PSTN-to-IP conversion, allowing
any existing alarm panel to be incorporated within an IP network.
Next step up in the range is the Iris Touch 400 series, designed to be
embedded in existing security control panels and to bring all the benefits
of the 200 range to the legacy panel market - including the ability to
work with any alarm monitoring centre using both main and back-up transmission
methods.
Final element in the series is Iris Touch Embedded, a range designed for
use in third party manufacturers' alarm panels including Honeywell, Texecom,
Coopers Security and Visonic.
The company says that while now being the most cost effective and market
approved IP alarms system, Iris Touch also allows options with full GSM/PSTN
dual-path communications. Iris Touch 400 offers a competitive option to
existing dual communications diallers at a more attractive price and with
no limitations to one single airtime carrier or long-term contracts.
‘Iris Touch represents a tangible leap forward in the exciting area
of alarms-over-IP,’ declares Ian Tredinnick, Chiron Security Communications'
MD. ‘IP is the future-proof way forward for alarm transmission and
monitoring and Iris Touch is just what the market has been waiting for
- a fuss-free, user-friendly way to exploit IP's operational advantages,
cost savings and added-value benefits.
‘At this stage in the market's development, the introduction of Iris
Touch could be compared to Microsoft's launch of Window 95 in the computer
world - a system representing a quantum jump ahead compared with what
was available beforehand. We're enabling alarm system users to take control
and fully exploit the advantages the technology brings, safe in the knowledge
that IP now offers high security levels combined with insurer approval.’
Tel: +44 (0) 118 988 0228
Email: jholmes@chiron.uk.com
Web: http://www.chiron.uk.com
