With InformaCast you can now trigger or receive triggers from contact closures to engage notification
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) refers to technologies that allow both wireless and wired systems to communicate with other devices. M2M uses a device (such as a contact closure) to capture an event (a
doorbell ringing), which is relayed through a network (wireless, wired, or hybrid) to an application (InformaCast), that translates the captured event into meaningful information (for example, the doorbell ringing sends a broadcast to answer the back service door).
As a way of further expanding the number of people reached with InformaCast broadcasts, the M2M plugin allows you to send InformaCast broadcasts when a contact closure has been triggered or trigger a contact closure when a specific broadcast has been sent. Once you have configured your contact closures, you can add them to InformaCast: input ports will allow you to trigger InformaCast broadcasts when they’re activated, and output ports can be added as recipients to InformaCast’s messages so that when they’re sent as broadcasts, the contact closure’s output port(s) is activated.
M2M plugin is ideal for:
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Sending a broadcast to a specified paging group as well as an email alert when a motion detector is triggered
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Activating a broadcast over speakers and/or phones when the night doorbell is pushed
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If an unauthorized door is opened, sending an audio alert broadcast to the area of the door as well as a notification email to the security team
Supported Contact Closures for the M2M Plugin
As a way of further expanding the number of people reached with InformaCast broadcasts, the M2M
plugin allows you to send InformaCast broadcasts when a contact closure has been triggered or trigger
a contact closure when a specific broadcast has been sent.
The M2M plugin supports the following models of contact closures:
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Perle IOLAN DS1 D2R2 with firmware v4.2 and above
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Perle IOLAN DS1 T4 with firmware v4.2 and above
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Barix Barionet 50 with firmware vB1.09 and above
The M2M plugin for InformaCast replaces the popular DORA application for organizations running InformaCast 8.0.
Talk with us to learn more or engage our team for a one-on-one demonstration.
