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Risco Agility 3 Alarm Review
On the beginning of 2013 we introduced new Risco Agility 3 alarm panel with the video verification. Agility 3 is available to users in UK and it's impossible to resist taking a closer look at the wireless alarm panel with the bonus of home automation and video verification.
Risco, which is the manufacturer, has put plenty of thought into Agility 3 and the company's engineers have come up with a solution that's easy to install and easy to use while offering the alarm industry's gold standard for intrusion detection, visual verification. In fact, Risco Agility 3 is the first affordable domestic alarm panel that does visual verification.
Interesting to me is the fact that Risco's corporate self-awareness highlights 4 key areas of business - integration, integrated visual verification, access control, and intrusion. As I ran through the demo of Agility 3, I couldn't help feeling all these areas were represented in this single domestic alarm product.
Agility 3 has alarms, integrated video verification, integration of home automation via I/O and X-10 modules. Access control, you ask? Well - not exactly - but the proximity - enabled keypad does allow arming and disarming of the system by presentation of proximity tag to keypad. And little jewels of functionality like this are strewn throughout the system.
In terms of specifications, Agility has 32 wireless zones, 8 of which can be wireless PIR cameras, as well as supporting up to 3 bi-directional wireless LCD & LED keypads, one for each of the 3 possible partitions. There's also bi-directional audio, 32 user codes, as well as a 250-event log. There are also cool modules like PERS, and there's a wireless home automation module with 4 wired zones and 4 outputs, which includes an X-10 transmitter.
Sensors - well - these include all the intrusion wireless sensors Risco makes from internal PIRs to external multi-technology sensors, as well as safety detectors that include smoke, gas, CO and flood detection units. Support for wireless sensors is backwards compatible, too. Meanwhile, panel communication options include any combination of PSTN, IP and GSM/GPRS.
