Technology is advancing, the times are changing, and if your security business is going to
stay afloat, you need more than just another alarm panel. What you need is a Quality of
Life System.
Hi there, it's Tyler from Nelly's Security, and in today's video I want to introduce you
to the IQ Panel 2+ from Qolsys. We are at a technological crossroads in the security
industry, and today I want to show you how the IQ Panel 2+ can bridge your customers
from the past to the future.
This is a great alarm panel with a ton of features. It's got an intuitive user interface,
a 5MP camera that can take a picture every time the alarm is disarmed. You can view and
interact with all of your Alarm.com security cameras right from this panel. You can even
answer your ADC doorbells. Moreover, when you purchase from Nelly's Security, we will
print your company's logo directly onto your panel in full color free of charge.
It's got a ton of really cool features, but all of that really is just the tip of the
ice berg. We'll talk about it all later on in this video, but first I want to talk about
the technological beast that this camera is underneath the surface. By replacing your
customers' older and outdated alarm panel technology with the Qolsys IQ Panel 2+, you
are providing a bridge for your customer from the past to the future in a few different
ways. First, if you have customers who still have 3G radios in their alarm panels, the
Qolsys IQ Panel 2+ will help bridge them from the older obsolete 3G networks to the newer
4G LTE networks. But second, even if your customer already has an LTE radio in their
alarm panel, the Qolsys IQ Panel 2+ is going to bridge them from older technologies of
the past to newer security technologies of the future. To better understand this, let's
take the back off this panel and check out some of the technology on the inside.
So here's our panel. This really is just, it's a beautiful piece of technology. The
interface is great; we will look at that here in a little bit. First, I want to look again
here at the technology that's built into this panel. So we have our motherboard here. Almost
everything is integrated into this motherboard. It's run by a Qualcomm Snapdragon SOC, which
is a tablet-grade chip, so this really does integrate so perfectly into your customers'
lives. It basically works just like every other piece of technology that your customers
interact with on a daily basis, from their smart phones to their tablets. The great thing
about this alarm panel is that it actually started as a computer. So usually alarm panels
start as alarm panels. They have all the alarm functionality. And then after that, you kind
of integrate the computer and the tablet-like features afterwards, and it always just feels
like an after-thought, you know what I mean? Like, it's always trying to catch up, and
it's never quite there. The Qolsys panel starts as a computer and then it adds the alarm functionality
after that. Everything is just so much more seamless, so much more powerful. The LTE is
integrated into the motherboard, the Bluetooth, the Wi-Fi.
Panel tampered.
It has all of these features by default, so there's no cell card for you to install. The
models that we sell here at Nelly's Security have Verizon LTE already installed inside.
So this panel is good to go. You can get this, take it right to your customer. And then what
we have here added to the motherboard are these daughter cards, and this is what gives
it the alarm functionality. And this is how it's going to act as a bridge from the older
technologies to newer technologies. And how we're going to do that is these two radios
right here. First we have our SRF radio. SRF stands for "Security Radio Frequencies," and
the particular radio in this model, it's a radio that is listening on the frequency 319.5
MHz. This is a frequency that the older Qolsys systems use, also the Qolsys S-Line encrypted
sensors use that frequency, as well as Interlogix systems. So basically, you can take this panel
and set it up in any home that has sensors with the 319.5 frequency, and it's going to
integrate seamlessly with those sensors. It's a really easy takeover. You don't have to
go around and replace all of the old sensors. You don't have to put in some kind of expensive
translator technology to take the frequencies from the sensors and help them speak the language
of your panel. Everything just works the way it's supposed to.
Now you can see on the box here, we do have the Legacy Support 319.5 MHz with Qolsys S-Line
and Interlogix. There is also a 345 MHz panel, which integrates seamlessly with 2GIG and
Honeywell. And there's also 433 MHz, which integrates with DSC sensors. So really, depending
on what system your client uses, whatever system is already in the house or the business,
you can take this, have an instant and simple takeover with whatever system's already there,
and it's really as simple as swapping out those panels. But the cool thing about this
panel is that it also supports dual SRF, or dual security radio frequencies. That means
at the same time, while we have this legacy radio in here looking for those single fixed
frequencies, we also have a PowerG radio up here, which is looking for and communicating
with PowerG sensors. Now PowerG is the first update to security sensor technology in quite
a while, and man, what an update it is. I mean, PowerG adds so much functionality to
your system. These have 4x the range of a standard security sensor. So with this radio
down here, if you have maybe a second building or a garage that isn't attached to the main
building, you might need some kind of signal extender for this panel to pick up on those
signals. But with PowerG, with that 4x range, you can go a lot farther without having to
use any kind of repeater, so you can finally have those sensors in that second building
or in the garage that's not attached to the main house, and this radio should pick up
on those signals just fine. Another cool thing about PowerG is that it communicates in 2
ways. This radio down here is just listening for that 319.5 MHz frequency. This radio right
here is listening and broadcasting, so think of this as just a radio in your car that you're
listening to whatever the radio station is broadcasting. And think of this more like
a ham radio, or a walkie-talkie. You're actually able to communicate both ways. That means
from the panel you can adjust the sensitivity of certain sensors. The sensor can also know
how far away the panel is, that way your PowerG sensors can automatically adjust the strength
of their signal, so that, you know, if you have a PowerG sensor that's right next to
the panel and a PowerG sensor that's off in a second building, those two sensors are not
going to be sending frequencies at the same strength. The sensor that's closer to the
panel can pull back a little bit on the strength, since it doesn't have to go as far. And in
the long run that can save you, really, a lot of battery life. Whereas this sensor down
here, even if the sensor is in the same room as the panel, it's going to be sending frequencies
at its full strength because it can't communicate, it doesn't know where that panel is, the panel's
just listening. Both lines of communication are encrypted, so whether the communication
is coming from the sensor to the panel or from the panel to the sensor, it's going to
be encrypted, so you have a safe system that is protected against cyber attacks. The last
thing I want to mention about these PowerG radios is that the sensor and the panel can
communicate across 50 different frequencies. Again, down here, you're limited to one: 319.5,
or 345, or 433 MHz. This you have 50 to choose from. This is important because, you know,
when security sensors first came out, there really wasn't that much wireless technology
to compete with. Now there is wireless technology all over peoples' homes and businesses, so
it's really important for this PowerG to be able to communicate across various frequencies.
Because down here, let's say the 319.5 MHz frequency has some interference on it, maybe
there is another wireless device in the house that is just sending out noise and kind of
interfering with that frequency. There's not really much that this sensor can do, because
it is stuck on that frequency. Your PowerG sensor is actually flipping through all the
available frequencies about 64 times every single second, so it's always making sure
that it is communicating on the clearest frequency so that there is no interference, there's
no noise happening. The PowerG is a lot more powerful, it's a lot more reliable, and it's
really cool to see this dual SRF here because you can put this in a house that already has
all of these legacy sensors, and let's say your customer does eventually want all PowerG
sensors. Well, you don't have to upgrade them all at once, because with this panel, it can
do both the legacy and the PowerG, and that's really what I mean when I say this panel is
your customer's bridge from the past to the future.
The last daughter card that we have here is Z-Wave Plus. This is the newer Z-Wave protocol
that connects your alarm panel to your smart home devices, whether that's lights, or door
locks, or thermometers. Garage doors. You name it, your alarm panel can integrate with
that. We have the speakers here on the side. We have the alarm siren here, which is actually
very loud, I'll show you that here in a little bit. We have the power supply, which you don't
have to hard-wire anything. The power supply comes included on this device, and you just
plug it in and it's good to go. Of course, if you do have to hard-wire, maybe you're
setting this up for an older system, they do have the terminal here which you can hard-wire
things into, like the power. But keep in mind, there is a warning label here. That could
void your warranty if you use a power supply other than the one that they provide.
So that's the technology working under the surface of this alarm panel. It's really powerful,
it can do a lot of great things, so let's go ahead and take a closer look at this user
interface.
Alright, now it's time for the moment we've all been waiting for. Let's take a look at
the user interface of this alarm panel. You can see before I tap the screen, we do have
this screensaver which is just a series of images, scrolls through. Your customers can
add whatever images they want. It can be just like a digital picture frame. You can even
add as a dealer a certain billboard image that shows up every few images that your customers
can't delete, so it's a good way for you to increase your brand recognition, maybe have
your phone number and your email address on there so customers always know who to contact.
As soon as I tap this, though, it's going to take me to my home screen. And here we
are. This is a really clean interface. They didn't just jam everything into one screen.
You access different things by scrolling left and right so, it's just like what people are
used to again with their cell phones and tablets. So this first screen is the home screen, obviously.
It's got the time and the date up there. It's got the weather in the top left-hand corner,
which is from Alarm.com. It's got your updates here in the top right. You can click that
and it can tell you what's going on in your system. Please contact your dealer for assistance.
That's a good way for you to put your contact information there again. And we can read the
alerts that we have. There's been some tampering. That was just me looking at the back when
I was recording the video earlier. And right from here we have this giant screen, which
we can click to...
Select arm system type.
...alarm, to arm and disarm our alarm. So I can click "Alarm Stay."
Arm stay.
And now, the alarm is set. It's set to stay, so I can stay in the house. And, let's see
I have this sensor set up here, so as soon as I open it, you can see that our alarm has
been triggered, so I'm going to go ahead and cancel that alarm.
System is now disarmed.
And the system is disarmed. In the bottom left-hand corner, if we click on this we have
access to our different routines if we have set these up through Alarm.com with the Z-Wave
plus to control different aspects of your home. Just customize this to really fit right
into your daily routine. And down here in the bottom right corner, we have access to
our panic buttons, so just we are one tap away from calling for emergency services.
And I'm going to go ahead and swipe right. This menu is super flexible, it changes depending
on what you have enabled or what you don't have enabled. So for instance, I do have a
light connected to this, so it's going to show up on my Z-Wave menu here. However, if
I didn't have any Z-Wave devices hooked up to my alarm system, this screen wouldn't be
here at all. So that makes for a really clean and clutter-free user experience. So I'm going
to keep moving forward and we have our camera, this 5MP camera here at the top. It takes
a picture every time the settings are accessed, every time an alarm goes off, or every time
the alarm panel has been disarmed. So we can go through here and take a look at these pictures
of me disarming the camera. There I am. There I am again. There I am again in the dark.
I think that was just now actually. And once it's in the cloud, this gets uploaded to the
Alarm.com cloud, from there it can actually do face recognition, so you can get on there,
you can tell it which face goes with which user code, and so if someone comes in here
and types in my user code but their face does not match my face, Alarm.com is going to recognize
that, I'm going to get a notification on my phone, and I'm going to be able to take whatever
appropriate actions that I need to take from there. So just an added layer of protection.
And you can get those images texted to you, so as soon as maybe your kids get home from
school and they disarm the system, you'll get a text right away with their face so just,
you'll always know who's home, when someone's disarming the alarm. So let's keep moving
forward. We have live video cameras. Right now, our cameras aren't plugged up. But if
we did have an Alarm.com security camera connected, we could see up to 40 of them right here from
the screen. All you have to do is go to Alarm.com and enable this for whichever cameras you
want to show up here. And not only can you access the live feeds right from your panel
and see what's happening in real time, but you can also interact with the cameras. Let's
say we have a camera with 2-way audio. I can communicate directly through this panel with
whoever is around the security camera. If you have an Alarm.com doorbell, you can use
this panel to answer the doorbell if someone rings it. It'll pop up right here. You can
answer it, talk to the person, turn on lights from your panels, disarm your alarm from the
panel, unlock your doors and let someone in. A lot of cool things that you can do with
this, but let's go ahead and keep moving.
Alright, next we have our connectivity information, this is where we can do software updates.
This thing is always connected to the Alarm.com cloud, so anytime there is a software update,
it's going to download that immediately through the dual path network connectivity. What I
mean by that is it can connect to both Wi-Fi and LTE at the same time. You know, with some
other alarm panels, they might have this functionality, but it might not be simultaneous. It might
be where you're connected with Wi-Fi, and if the Wi-Fi goes out then it switches over
to LTE. Kind of like you can see here, we are connected to the local network through
Wi-Fi, but not to the Internet. The cool thing about the Qolsys panel is this is simultaneous,
so Wi-Fi and LTE are always going, so if something like this happens where you lose network connectivity
from your Wi-Fi, the LTE is still running, so there's not going to be that service gap
as the panel switches over from Wi-Fi to LTE. Since both are always going, you're always
going to have a nice and secure connection to the network. And again, Bluetooth is integrated
into this panel, and there are some really cool things you can do with Bluetooth. You
can connect up to five mobile devices to this, and when you do that, you can actually disarm
your system via Bluetooth. So if you are arriving home and your alarm panel is armed away, then
as soon as you approach your home, the Bluetooth in your phone is going to automatically disarm
the alarm system for you, so you can walk in your home, your alarm system will already
be disarmed. If you have any Z-Wave lights, you can have those come on automatically based
on your geolocation with your Bluetooth. Set up all different kinds of scenes, and it just
creates a really nice coming home experience for your customers.
And now the last thing I want to do before we wrap this up, I want to show you what this
alarm sounds like and just how loud it really is. Which, it's gonna be hard to tell from
your perspective how loud it is, because I'm sure this microphone is going to adjust automatically,
but here's what it sounds like. Let's go ahead and arm this thing.
Select arm system type. Arm stay.
Now I'm going to trip the door sensor.
Production room open. (beeping)
You can see we have like 30 seconds to put in our user code and disarm the system.
Arm system in 20 seconds.
Right now I'm getting a notification on my phone that the system was armed.
(Alarm siren)
And there we go, we can see in Alerts & Alarms, we do have that the alarm was triggered, so
we can acknowledge all of these, just to get them to go away. Click OK. And this interface
is snappy, it's responsive, it's beautiful. Again, it just, your clients are gonna love
it just because of how well it blends in with other technologies that they're used to. It
feels nice and up to date and very sleek and modern.
So, that is the Qolsys IQ Panel 2+.
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