Residential Applications for Voice Alert

Home uses of Voice Alert include :

- child safety around swimming pools,

- stairways and driveways,

- announcing visitors,

- warning of intruders,

- protection of garages, tools, equipment and automobiles.

With a range of up to 1000 feet (300' through walls) and the ability to trigger additional devices using "C" relays (lights, alarms, home automation), the Voice Alert System-6 offers installers, homeowners, and automation enthusiasts an ideal solution for hard-to-wire situations.

Residential Scenarios

Zone 1 could be a driveway alarm and play back "Car coming up the driveway."

Zone 2 could guard a side entrance against intruders. When this PIR detects movement the Base Unit could play back "Someone's on the patio" and trigger a floodlight using one of the four "C" relays included on the Base Unit.

Zone 3 is used by the entrance to the backyard pool. When triggered, this Zone plays back "Kids are by the pool."

Zone 4 might be used to detect movement in your prized garden. You could record "Is there a deer in the garden?" to be played when the sensor for this zone is triggered near your garden.

Voice Alert can monitor all four zones simultaneously and still have two additional zones available (along with their own custom messages), if required.

 

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Adding a voice to Fire systems

Experts agree that people have about four minutes or less to escape a home after a fire alarm sounds.

Use the contact closure on a Voice Alert sensor/transmitter to tie into the smoke alarm's output. When the fire system triggers an alarm, the system issues an audio command that fire has been detected.

Hearing a voice message can help reduce confusion.

 

Voice Alert and X-10 technology

The Voice Alert System-6 is very flexible and can easily be integrated with an X-10 network by using the X-10 PowerFlash module.
The PowerFlash module is wired to a relay on the Voice Alert Receiver/Speaker. When motion is detected an X-10 house/unit code signal broadcasts over the wiring of the property. This house/unit code can be recorded by home automation software or trigger other X-10 modules.

By using an X-10 PowerFlash in conjunction with an X-10 Universal relay module wired to a CCTV security system, individual camera's can be activated or trigger fast recording of a particular camera. Other applications might be to turn on a light, or sound an X-10 chime in another room.

Voice Alert System-6 provides much more reliable outdoor motion detection with greater distances than standard X-10 motion detectors.