The recent OS Malevich 2.12 update from the manufacturer Ajax Systems has brought Chime. The Chime feature allows using an Ajax siren with an opening sensor as an analogue of a shop bell. It notifies shop staff that a client has entered the door or — in a private house — that someone has entered through the back door.
The sound of the siren alert is short and different from the alarm, and its volume is adjustable in the app. The user has four alert signals to choose from, which lets you tell which door has been opened. After enabling the Chime feature, a blue bell icon appears in the Ajax app, indicating the state of the function. You can temporarily disable it with a tap.
Now with the firmware, in the service settings of a hub, users can select specific communication channels about which to report in case of a lost or disabled connection. The delay for such a notification can be set up for up to 30 minutes. This not only improves control over the communication of the security system for users but also can generate an alarm confirmation for a security monitoring station, the developers add.
Ajax reports that it’s received requests from Ajax users on Facebook and the Trustpilot review platform about siren alerts in Night Mode. Users did not like the siren waking up their children when Night Mode was activated. Now, in the siren settings, alerts on the Night mode activation and delays are separated: individually for the entry and the exit. Users can also set the volume of these alerts. No more annoying beeps at night.
At the request of Norwegian partner Elotec – it was behind a project last year to protect the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bergen with Ajax products – a function notifies all people in the building through the buzzers built into the fire detectors when at least one of them has detected fire. It allows people to be evacuated even before the fire rapidly spreads across a building.
Thanks to the update, in case of false alarm a user will now be able to only mute the detectors of the same group — the user apartment, without affecting the detectors in other apartments. The user evaluates if a fire alarm is false only in his apartment, and if there is a danger to other residents, then the interconnected alarm will notify them of it. If a false alarm triggers an interconnected alarm in all apartments, only the system administrator can mute it.
As for how to get the update, Ajax hubs will receive OS Malevich 2.12 in September. The update is installed automatically when the security system is disarmed, and the hub is connected to an external power supply. Visit https://ajax.systems/.
