What Comfort does for you

Security systems are entering a new phase in their evolution. Customers are demanding that their security system work harder for them, providing more intelligence, convenience, energy savings and control possibilities. Many homes function around separate systems which work independently from each other, but these can now be integrated into one system, where you can have control from a single keypad or telephone button. The benefits are plenty, now you can be in control and in touch with many aspects of your home and office environments, because integration is the key and Comfort is the system which provides you with integration .......

Nothing is more important than protecting the ones you love. Now, with the aid of new technology, there is a powerful new system which helps keep you and your family safe in ways never before possible.

Comfort is one of the most advanced yet simple security systems available today incorporating many creative ways to help make you and your family feel safer. You can be alerted when someone is in your garden or driveway. In the event of a break-in or a fire, Comfort can automatically dial-out to phones, pagers or even emergency services to alert or bring help. Comfort has the unique ability of letting the recipient know exactly what has happened by providing access to interrogate the system so that you can know exactly where an intruder is within your home before you go looking for them.

Comfort provides security, convenience and control like never before! Comfort can be controlled by listening to the English Voice Menus which are heard through your keypad and telephone. This provides simple guidance when arming the security system or controlling the home, making Comfort very easy to understand and use. When you enter your code Comfort welcomes you by name.

Your house is always comfortable and efficient and secure, because the thermostats know whether you are at home, asleep or away and your detection devices can alert you of outside activity even the system is switched off. Lights can come on when you enter your hallway. Your outside lights come on at dusk and off or when there is movement during the night.

Comfort can be controlled using your keypad or your home telephone or your touch tone phone from anywhere in the world. Enter your code and Comfort will start to talk to you, offering you the choice from a few menu options, such as arming the system or listening to your messages on the answering machine. Comfort can be set to one of five modes, with just one or two key-strokes, such as Away Mode when leaving the house, Night Mode for Bedtime, Day Mode for protecting an area separately or Vacation Mode when going on Holiday so that your lights and curtains operate for a deterrent effect (optional). Other short-cut keys take you to commonly used menus such as setting a reminder message or intercom mode.

Have you ever had your doorbell ring when you were in the bathroom? Or missed a delivery because you were away from the house or in the rear garden? Comfort's Intelligent Door Station allows you to use a cordless phone anywhere around the house avoiding those frustrating situations. If you are away from home and Comfort is armed and the doorphone button is pressed, Comfort can call to your mobile phone or any other phone (if instructed to do so), so that you can talk with your visitor from wherever you are! If no one answers the door phone either from within the premises or remotely, after a brief time, the doorphone can take a message from the visitor and will be played to you when you arrive home. You can even have your doorbell switch-off the vacuum cleaner or the HIFI so you can hear the doorbell and the phone ringing!

At the heart of your Comfort system is the messaging centre. This is like eight answering machines in one giving each person in the household their own personal voice mail system which is accessible using their own unique pin-code. An incoming caller would first hear your greeting message and then be able to choose from a list who they are leaving their message for. If you wish, Comfort can forward your messages to your cell phone as they arrive or you can phone in to collect them.

Ever left home in a hurry and forgot to switch on the answer-machine? Not so with Comfort because Comfort does it for you whenever you arm or disarm the system, when you arrive home and disarm the system you will hear your message. Upon arriving home a steady light on the keypad shows that a memo has been left, a flashing light shows that an outside caller has left a message.

Comfort lets you stay in touch wherever you are. Comfort's in-built voice dialler can call up to 8 telephone numbers. Comfort can call you if there is a power-cut or in the event of an alarm. Additionally, you can call Comfort and interrogate the system for any information, just as if you're at home! Now you can check that all is well at home from anywhere in the world, just call-in from your phone and take away the uncertainty.

Comfort's home control option can allow you to control and operate electrical appliances within your home, such as the heating, lighting, air conditioning, curtains or garage doors, in fact almost any appliance. Comfort allows manual control using the telephone or keypad or automatic responses using built-in time programs, integrating the system truly within your home or office.

Special power modules using the X-10 protocol are used to control your existing lights to make the house look occupied or to illuminate your escape route during a fire alarm or to control heating, ventilation and air-conditioning appliances (HVAC). Installation is simple because the modules require very little wiring and they receive their instruction as a code down the existing ring-main circuits. The home control menu has eleven sub-menus making possible over 100 custom home control operations!

Comfort may be scheduled to perform certain actions at regular times each day, such as switch the heating or air conditioning on and off and can schedule the garden sprinklers to operate whilst on holiday. Comfort can even know not to water on a day when it is already raining. You could even have your Comfort system arm itself at 12.00 Midnight and disarm at 6.00am automatically.

The power and usefulness of being able to control or interrogate your system from any phone in the world should not be underestimated. If you wanted to be certain that no-one was in your property before you enter, you can do so. You can also use this feature to phone in and switch the lights or heating on in advance or for convenience even to switch the VCR to record a programme (you'll need to remember the blank tape).

Whenever you go out or go on holiday, set Comfort to Vacation Mode.Homes are often burgled while the property is obviously unnoccupied, so doesn't it make sense to make your house look like there is someone living there even when there isn't? Comfort can help by simulating the appearance of an occupied home by switching lights and closing curtains and even operating the TV or radio .
Comfort's Vacation Mode does this using random control within a one hour time window to achieve a realistic effect.

Another Comfort function is to deter prowlers should they come close to the property. The system can detect movement in the rear garden or yard and then switch lights on in a sequence, for example, first the outside light switches on, then the bedroom, then 5 seconds later, the landing, then the hall to give the appearance of someone in the house getting up to investigate. Comfort can also dial-out silently and alert you.

Comfort can have up to 8 keypads and intercoms giving you the ability to listen to sounds within your property from your home phone, cellular phone or another keypad. You can also make an announcement through your speakers. Intercoms and keypads can have many uses. To save your legs and your voice, you can broadcast a message to everyone around the house, what could be easier? If you are a carer or you have a baby, you can use the intercoms in 'monitor mode' to listen for sounds in the vacinity of the keypad, Comfort is always there to keep you in touch.

Reminder messages may be set at certain times of day to remind you of appointments, take medicine or when your favourite TV programmes are on. At the programmed time, a "ringing" tone will be heard on the Keypad and house phones will ring and the message can be heard when you answer the phone. Or you could have your reminder messages call your mobile phone to give you messages wherever you are. Comfort can be used as an alarm clock to wake you up each morning. You can even program it to not ring at all at the weekend!

You can be assured of Comfort's reliability and quality: Comfort is Year 2000 compliant, BABT (UK) approved, CE marked and is capable of installation to BS4737, ACPO and NACOSS codes of practice even for commercial applications.

In addition to meeting the tough BABT requirements for the United Kingdom, Comfort complies with Australian and South African telecommunication requirements. This means Comfort systems are proven to resist surges, static and radio interference (RFI).

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