ALULA EXTENDS REP FIRM PARTNERSHIP FOOTPRINT INTO CANADA

Alula, the leader in smart security and system communications for professional installers, announces a partnership with PLG Manufacturers Representatives (PLG) to further expand its footprint across Canada. The collaborative efforts will enable Alula to expand relationships and sales coverage for professional dealers, system integrators and distribution partners throughout Canada.

PLG provides its clients with full system design expertise in electronic security, audio/video and networking products for commercial, industrial and residential markets. The partnership will focus on expanding the knowledge of Alula’s products and services, including Connect+, BAT-Connect and BAT-Fire. The Connect+ panel and Alula’s alarm system communicators are designed for new installations, system upgrades and takeovers, and allow dealers to lessen the number of products they must carry in inventory. Additionally, a broadened understanding of Alula’s products and services will be paramount as Alula recently announced its new hybrid panel solution Connect-XiP.

“At Alula, we are committed to putting more feet on the street across the United States and Canada, ensuring we are closer to our customers,” said Matt Gehr, VP of Sales, Alula. “This partnership with PLG will be paramount in being able to leverage an industry-leading portfolio of smart intrusion products and services to their existing clients.”

Visit https://alula.com/contact-sales/ to find a local representative.

Large Australian Warehouses Go Wireless With Alula Connect+

Commercial facilities up to 160,000 square feet are rarely candidates for wireless security systems. Considerations such as a site’s size, thick concrete walls, metal components and multiple levels combine to make deployment of a wireless system difficult at best. However, Australian security dealers recently proved that wireless technology easily meets the security needs of two large warehouse facilities in the country’s most populous cities, Sydney and Melbourne.

The Alula Connect+ security panel is built for a wide range of residential and small business security and automation applications.

At the heart of both projects is an Alula Connect+ security panel providing one hub for monitoring all system devices. The 5G-ready Connect+ is built for a wide range of residential and small business security and automation applications. The Australian projects include up to 70 connected points, including PIRs, smoke and seismic detectors, door and window sensors, access control readers and more.

Large australian warehouse go wireless with alula connect +

Ashley George, technical director for Sydney-based ASEG Security & Automation, said his company previously installed Connect+ units in smaller commercial facilities throughout Southeastern Australia. The success with those projects left him wondering if the units could meet the needs of much larger sites.

“I’ve been involved with the wireless market for many years and decided this was the time to see how the technology would work in a large installation,” George said. “Our client successfully used 100 percent wireless systems leveraging Connect+ in six smaller satellite depots around Sydney and Melbourne. That experience gave them the confidence to try it in a new 15,000-square-meter (161,458-square-foot) Melbourne warehouse.”

The ASEG team worked to pre-program and pack the entire system, including two signal repeater devices, numbering each box to correspond with a specific location in the new warehouse. George shipped the boxes to a trusted Melbourne contractor and oversaw the four-day installation.

The system was an immediate hit with the end user. George said the Alula mobile app enabled the warehouse management to receive real-time updates, including any system arming or disarming and views of cameras throughout the new facility and satellite locations. George said the wireless system saved days of installation time compared to a hard-wired project, enabling ASEG to charge a premium while also saving the client money.

Routine signal strength checks show the system is working as expected. George said he’s already planning more wireless systems for larger commercial locations that, until recently, were thought to require hardwired systems. “I’m pleasantly surprised how well this project came together,” he said. “Connect+ is a great product that’s light years ahead of the competition.”

Another Australian warehouse recently scrapped a hard-wired security system in favor of Connect+ based wireless technology, installed by Actel Group, which provides electronic security, building controls, fire accessories, communications systems and more from its base in a Sydney suburb. Actel Group Managing Director Vince Valente said the quick installation time of the wireless system convinced his client to try something different for a 7,000-square-meter (75,347-square-foot) warehouse for storing computer-related technologies. The project includes sensors in the office space and throughout the warehouse.

The facility includes two levels of offices and one level of warehouse space in a building, including thick concrete walls and metal structures — potential roadblocks for wireless communication.

Valente said the Actel Group had never installed a wireless system in a project of this size. The installation took a little over two days and was completed without signal repeaters. He estimates that a hard-wired system installation in the same facility would have taken a couple of weeks to complete.

“To be honest, we’ve dealt with wireless projects and they weren’t always 100 percent effective,” he said. “But that was working with other brands. We gave Alula’s Connect+ a go as our distributor recommended it. This project gives us the confidence to install wireless systems in more locations. I’m pleased with how efficiently and reliably it has worked. And, more importantly, our client is happy with it.”

Alula Wins IoT Integration Award, Demos Smart Home Security and Video at ISC East 2018

November 13, 2018 – Hudson, WI – Alula, the leader in smart security systems for dealers, today was recognized with an IoT Integration award for best video security on the eve of the International Security Conference & Exposition (ISC East), the Northeast’s largest security trade show with 7,000 security and public safety professionals. Demos of the award-winning Alula Connect+ security platform including new video cameras and mobile apps will be given at Alula’s ISC East booth # 337 November 14-15, 2018 at The Javits Center, New York.

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Alula Launches Unified Video for Security and Automation

New Video Solution Gives Alula’s Security Dealers One Platform to Create New Business and Deliver the Market Leading Video Experience

HUDSON, WI–(PR WEB)– SEPTEMBER 25, 2018– Alula, announced today a fully integrated and consumer-friendly video solution that expands the award-winning Alula Connect+ Platform for the home and small business. Combined with a complete line of Alula- branded Security Cameras also released today [link – https://go.alula.com/videorelease], the new Alula Video offering is quicker to install and easier to maintain, with dozens of ways to increase recurring revenue for dealers. Alula Video can be branded by the professional security dealer in the Alula apps for iOS, Android.

“Alula continues to deliver on our promise of being an end-to-end platform provider from our encrypted sensors to in-home hub to IP-first, highly secure network.  We bring it all together to provide our dealers and their customers a connected-home experience that improves their business operations and the daily life for the consumer,” said Alula CEO, Brian McLaughlin. “With Alula Video professional security dealers have a profitable path to offer and deliver more for their business and residential customers.”

Alula video delivers a new suite of services to the professional security dealer channel, embracing the company’s commitment to helping dealers lower account creation costs.  The video service platform can be offered in conjunction with Connect+, or as an extension to the popular BAT Communicator line from Alula – providing the industry with the most flexible interactive service platform in the industry.

Professional security dealers can start competing today with unified video offerings from Alula by visiting: (https://go.alula.com/videorelease); or by calling 888-88-ALULA.

All Your Video – One Integrated App

Alula Video and Alula App on the Alula Connect+ Platform give professional security dealers unmatched integration between security, automation and video in a single powerful interface that provides control of smart home devices, live and recorded video, and the entire security system. Dealers can give their customers the industry’s first fully integrated video experience – not a separate app or hard to manage tab in a complicated menu. Even better, Alula Video uses a hybrid, redundant storage model to keep all the latest video activities locally and in the cloud — unlike current offerings that stop recording if a customer exceeds their data limit.

And the app at the center of it all carries your brand, helping deepen customer relationships that keep recurring revenue coming. Designed for families or businesses with multiple users on different types of mobile devices, the dealer-brandable user experience is the same on all Alula user interfaces – whether on the latest smartphone or tablet, or Alula’s unique, intuitive Android tablet touchpad.

Inside the Dealer-Branded Alula App, customers can:

  • View of all cameras live
  • Talk and listen through enabled cameras
  • Receive motion detection notifications
  • Review recorded video clips
  • Favorite, tag and download video clips
  • Save favorite cameras to the app dashboard
  • Easily navigate a unified timeline of video cameras and security events

 

The Value of Alula Video

Each Alula Video camera takes seconds to install and enroll, can be managed remotely through the Alula AlarmDealer.com portal, and provides enhanced revenue opportunities for new installations of Alula Connect+ or upgrades of systems running on Alula’s BAT LTE Communicators.

“Alula continues to deliver market-leading innovation like this fully integrated video solution that not only redefines the user experience, it also enables dealers to keep costs low, both on initial installations and on-going services,” said Avi Rosenthal – Founder, IoT Consulting. “The connected home market is expanding the definition of home security, so it’s great to see Alula driving innovation for the professional dealers, helping them to deliver state of the art services to their customers.”

ALULA BRANDED SECURITY CAMERAS for ALULA VIDEO

The completely new line of Alula Security Cameras provide the high-performance customers demand and the low-cost dealers require. The new line of cameras can be purchased from Alula or industry-leading distribution partners and include:

  • Alula Doorbell Camera
  • Alula Outdoor Bullet Camera
  • Alula Indoor Mini-Camera with Two-Way Voice
  • Alula Indoor 360 Camera – 1080p with Pan/Tilt/Zoom

Customers can buy from Alula or through leading distribution partners.

 

About Alula

Alula is the only security platform that delivers simplified security for independent security dealers and installers, and the customers who rely on their services and expertise. Today, thousands of dealers across North America have nearly 300,000 active locations secured and connected with Alula. Designed for professional security professionals, the Alula platform provides a complete security, alarm, video and automation solution for renters, homeowners and commercial installations. Alula is a business-driven security platform designed to reduce truck rolls, increase RMR, simplify inventory and put dealers in control of their business, their customers and their revenue. The Alula platform is available nationwide through distributors that cater to the alarm and integrator industry. www.alula.com

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Alula Named Best Security Solution in the CE Pro 2018 BEST Award Winners at CEDIA

September 6, 2018 – San Diego, CA – Alula was named Best Integrated Security Solution by an independent panel of industry judges and editors from CE Pro Magazine. The Alula Connect+ Platform provides a complete security and automation system for professional installers and security dealers looking for a platform with the simplicity and flexibility to enable immediate and future revenue.

The CE Pro 2018 BEST (Best Electronics Systems Technologies Awards) Award for the Alula Connect+ Platform was awarded in the Control and Automation category, which included integrated security systems, modules, devices, and surveillance cameras. The Alula Connect+ Platform was individually judged on multiple criteria including innovation, functionality, competitive advantages, benefits to the end user and benefits to the integrator.

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One Platform. One Experience

When it comes to automation and smart home technology, today’s consumers are faced with new market entrants on a daily basis. So many homes are filled with multiple ways of interfacing with automation, security and smart devices. Universal remotes may have solved the coffee table clutter of the past but what is today’s solution for multiple apps on your mobile device to control the smart home features consumers love.

On July 17, 2018, Alula is rolling out a unified smart home experience. One feature-rich application that puts home automation, smart security and soon video access at your fingertips across all of your customers’ devices.

Security in your life. Not on the wall.

Whether on a smartphone, tablet or the Connect+ Touchpad, Alula’s simple, integrated app delivers direct control over consumer’s smart home features and security system. Without being tied to a panel on the wall, mobile app users can control lights, locks, thermostats, cameras and garage doors independently or in combination with the arming and disarming of their security system, in whatever order you choose.

Updated Features

Consistent look and feel across all devices

  • A consistent user experience through all device interfaces drives usability, minimizing the opportunity for user confusion.

Customizable screens to highlight what is important to the user

  • Screen personalization that enhances your customers experience by allowing them to see what’s important to them, and hide what’s not.

Insanely fast scenes and automation

  • Our scene and automation engine utilize an “always-available” communication architecture executing commands faster than the competition.

Easy grouping

  • Users can combine, view and operate their security, cameras and automation controls in groups that are meaningful to them personally – entryway, living room, and back patio are examples.

Favorites and locations

  • With favorites, your customers can pick zones, devices, and scenes they want to have quick access too.
  • Customers can even manage multiple locations from one device.

Alula Connects Alexa for a Simplified Security Experience

Voice assistant technology continues to become a staple in consumers’ homes. By combining Alexa with the industry’s fastest-response times of the Connect+, Alula provides voice control that delivers the simplified experience your customers expect.

“…with Alexa Voice Assistant integration, homeowners can control the critical security and automation features of their Alula Connect+ Platform.”

Using any product with Alexa Voice Assistant integration, homeowners can control the critical security features of their Alula Connect+ Platform.

Just ask Alexa to:

  • Arm the Connect+ platform
  • Get the status of the Connect+ platform
  • Disarm the Connect+ platform using a verbal PIN Code
  • Run home automation scenes by name that are already known to the Connect+ platform

In a smart home first culture, consumers expect the speed and flexibility of tapping, swiping or talking from wherever they may be. With Alula’s “always-connected” broadband backbone and Alexa “always-listening” interface your customers will not only experience a seamless response but at speeds that leave competitors behind.

At the heart of Alula is a desire to create simple, seamless and secure solutions for professional dealers. Solutions that meet the demands of today’s consumers while simplifying the way you do business. Be sure to head to the app store on your apple or android device and experience it for yourself!

Stay safe and connected with these New Life Safety Devices

Seamless setup with the Connect+

After a year of extreme weather events, the trend of staying put and riding out the storm is going by the wayside. With advances in technology, weather agencies are able to predict earlier and respond faster to events that disrupt and threaten personal safety and property. Last year thousands of Americans were forced to evacuate and leave their homes behind. This is an increasing number compared to the average number of evacuations in past years.

Stay Connected, even when leaving your home behind.

With breakthroughs in sensor technology and their practical application, smart home networks are now able to notify you immediately when there is an emergency. Whether you’re hunkered down or on the road headed away from danger, stay in touch with what matters with sensors designed specifically for your personal awareness.

Most of us are used to smoke sensors and their 9-volt batteries. So much has changed. With advancements in microelectronics and energy efficiency, your smoke alarms can communicate longer, check in with your smart security system more often and be even more reliable. These same advancements have opened the door to a whole new generation of sensors.

The “Not your Grandmas Smoke Sensor”: (RE614) This Smoke Sensor uses photoelectric smoke sensing technology, paired with a fixed heat limit, and a rate-of-rise limit. The alarm will signal when one or more of the signals are tripped: Smoke, Fixed Heat, or rate of rise.

  • Sensing smoke, heat and the rate-of-rise
  • Wireless communication with the Connect+

CO Detector:(RE615) CO or Carbon Monoxide poisoning, is still a problem today and being alert is a matter of life and death. Have your home prepared to alert you.

  • An alarm will sound when dangerous levels of CO have been detected
  • Strong, reliable RF signal for reliable communication

Our Flood & Temp Sensor (RE618) might not be able to calm the waves but it will notify you of water intrusion in your home.

  • Sensing flood conditions and extreme temperature changes
  • Set custom parameters to let you know when certain extreme temperatures are reached

The Glassbreak Sensor: (RE609) Branches and debris break windows too. Be alerted during a storm whether it’s your neighbors’ lawn chair or a burglar.

  • 4 – 6 years of battery life
  • Identifies the sound of breaking glass and transmits a signal to the Connect+ panel
  • Monitors a zone of 4 to 25 feet from a protected window

Life Safety isn’t just for homeowners

 

The Connect+ and this level of awareness are not just for 2000 square foot houses. Powered by Alula means technology that is developed by folks that genuinely care about your safety and protection. These life and property safety systems can be incorporated into small businesses or a whole apartment complex. If you are a smart home fan or just want to be updated in emergency situations these sensors are a solution.

Whether your enjoying life’s adventures or forced to leave your valuables behind, you can depend on the people behind the Alula brand to continue innovating in ways that keep you in touch with what matters most.

Request a demo today.