ENERGY SAVINGS USING THE IQ SMART SOCKET

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Our family has a room in my basement we’ve made into a modest home theater.  Its just a TV mounted on a wall and an inexpensive surround sound system, but its a great place for the kids to play video games or for the family to watch a movie together.  Being down in the basement it can get chilly,especially in the winter, so we have a space heater we purchased from Costco in the corner of the room.  Having the room heated that way has always worried us a little, since space heaters are notorious for causing fires.  To keep our home safe I’ve gotten in the habit of making a trip all the way downstairs to make sure the heater is off before we leave the house.Continue reading→

BLAST OFF

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My phone buzzed on the bedside table and I reached over to read the text message. “Site launched. Looks awesome.” Even though he’s only an hour north of our corporate headquarters in Cupertino, CA, my web designer often prefers to work through the night. A text message first thing in the morning meant that he’d been up all evening.Continue reading→

QOLSYS RECEIVES ETL CERTIFICATION OF IQ PANEL, IQ DOOR WINDOW, IQ MOTION, AND IQ SMART SOCKET

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Cupertino, CA. Qolsys Inc. announced today that it has received ETL certification for the IQ Panel, IQ Door/Window sensor, IQ Motion, and IQ Smart Socket.

The Intertek ETL Listed Alarm System Certification program works to maintain the highest level of alarm system reliability and ensure that products used for security and life safety comply with all federal, national and local standards and codes in both the United States and Canada.Continue reading→

QOLSYS INC. REDEFINES “ALL-IN-ONE” WITH GROUNDBREAKING 7-INCH TOUCHSCREEN SECURITY AND HOME CONTROL PLATFORM.

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Silicon Valley based company launched at ISC West 2013 in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS, NV – Qolsys Inc. (http://qolsys.com/ ) redefined the “all-in-one” market today with its groundbreaking 7-inch platform.  Qolsys (Quality of Life Systems) formally launched at the Security Industry Association’s (SIA) New Product Showcase preceding ISC West.  Headquartered in Cupertino, CA, the heart of Silicon Valley, Qolsys delivers the industry’s most advanced, connected home control platform supporting life safety, residential security, home control, energy management and more.  Partnered with best-in-class technology providers, including Foxconn Technology Group, and Alarm.com, the Qolsys IQ Solution transforms yesterday’s “self-contained” into today’s “all-in-one”. To see the IQ Panel in action, click here.Continue reading→

SIA BLOG: MEMBER PROFILE ON MIKE HACKETT, VICE PRESIDENT, SALES & MARKETING, QOLSYS

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What is your background? How did you get into the Security Industry?

Prior to starting Qolsys I was at eBay for 10 years. I spent a lot of time following consumer trends, including online and the fast growing mobile segment. Not exactly a security industry veteran; however, as customers and casual industry observers growing up in Silicon Valley, we noticed an opportunity to raise the bar in the residential security space. As outsiders we had no preconceived notions of what a security panel should look or act like, except that end users were ready for something more, similar to their smartphones and tablets. By leveraging these consumer trends and re-architecting the typical security state machine into an open compute platform we are able to bring to market an intuitive, attractive and robust solution that looks and acts more like a consumer friendly tablet but designed specifically for the security industry and the growing home control market.Continue reading→

INDUSTRY VETERAN KEN PARKER TO LEAD QOLSYS SALES EFFORTS

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Silicon valley startup lands 26-year security executive

(March 15th, 2013 11:11am PST) Cupertino, CA.  Qolsys announces the hiring of veteran home security executive Ken Parker as Vice President of Sales. Parker brings a distinctive combination of extensive sales experience, account management and industry relationships in the home security and home control markets to his role at Qolsys.Continue reading→