Can you combine high security/supervision, two-way wireless premises and central station communication, wireless PIR volumetric protection, and zero-lux video cameras in an economical package? Videofied thinks you can.

The new Videofied VIA-Pro system is a new security solution now available in the United States. Widely de-ployed in Europe, the VIA-Pro system is geared toward small, rapidly installed commercial and residential intrusion alarm applications.

VIA-Pro features PIR-cameras that communicate alarm and video wirelessly to the controller and central station and can “see in the dark” because they sport infrared LEDs for illumination. The camera’s field-of-view precisely overlays the PIR’s detection area such that when an intrusion is detected, a video clip is immediately captured, and the alarm information along with the video clip is transmitted to the central station or other remote site.

VIA-Pro supports up to four areas, 20 user passcodes and 24 wireless cameras/initiation points. It can be entirely wireless when used with the optional GPRS cellular transceiver module. It does not even need AC power. High-capacity lithium batteries provide a wireless service life up to or in excess of four years for all system components — even the control/communicator.

Fast, wireless installation, and long battery service life are only parts of the value proposition. As video accompanies the alarm reports and facilitates verification, faster police response is virtually assured and false alarms can be minimized.

VIA-Pro features five-way multi-mode communications that allows alarm and/or video information to be communicated via combinations of PSTN dial-up, GPRS wireless cell, TCP/IP network, e-mail and synthesized voice. All of this wireless power is made possible by a patented microprocessor power  management technology that is similar to what manages your cell phones, PDAs and notebook computers.

Unlike conventional alarm security wireless devices, VIA-Pro system components are asleep 99 percent of the time. That might be a problem if this meant being down 99 seconds out of 100 seconds or 99 minutes out of 100 minutes. In the Videofied VIA-Pro system, however, it means the devices are asleep 990,000 out of 1,000,000 micro-seconds (millionths of a second) and are synchronized to wake and look for instructions during the 1 percent of awake time. This “micro-managing” of component duty cycles allows huge power savings while not impacting effective supervision, performance or real (human) usage of the system.

For additional details visit www.videofied.com. — Contributed by John T. Judd CPP, PSP, CHS-III, Adevcon Inc. (johnjudd@adevcon.net)