 Let's talk a little bit about our connected home solution. Yes, so you'll see it here in Q3, we talked about delivery of Z-Wave device control. So from the SecureSmart software today, you can control lights and mocks and garage doors and thermostats. Those are all Z-Wave devices. We talked just a moment ago about the scenes and automation, how we're going to work on that in Q4. But then what's beyond that, right? What's going to be next to come for our connected home solution? And that's going to be reaching out and connecting with all of the other API level integrations. The integrations with things like Nest and IFT and Amazon Echo. We're really excited about what that's going to mean for the platform and what it means to the experience that we deliver to our end users. Okay, so that's some things that we can look forward to in 2018. Scott, let's talk about what future-proof communications means with the Helix system. Sure, so obviously this is an IP first, right? We are all about the Internet port here at IP DataTel. But it's more than that, right? Because we always keep an eye on the ball with respect to what are we going to do going forward. With the Helix device, you're future-proofed in a couple of ways. The first is that it's modular, right? And that means that I can swap cards in and out. So if today's technology is CDMA, great. I can put in a CDMA card and have dual paths. Same with the Z-Wave module. I can add that Z-Wave module and I've got Z-Wave functionality. If for some reason, some way, Z-Wave falls out of favor and mesh Bluetooth or something else becomes the way of the future, you don't have to go reinvest in this hardware. You can simply pop out a card, pop in a new one, and that modular design means that you're future-proof. You can utilize this panel going forward. Okay, fantastic. A lot of interesting things to consider with future-proof communications. Now, you mentioned LTE. Let's talk about the LTE for Helix. Yes, so this is where I get excited because I get to actually announce something. That doesn't happen very often, but this is probably the first time that this has kind of been widely, publicly broadcast. We now have an LTE solution for the Helix panel. It's pretty exciting. One of the things that we found as we were developing our offering on the communicator side of the house was that a lot of other competitor companies, they either weren't delivering real LTE devices. They were kind of pseudo-LTE or they were delivering a device that didn't have multiple antennas. So it was LTE, but it was kind of dumbed down, right? They didn't have the diversified antenna. They didn't have that experience of being able to have great coverage with the LTE solution. So the Helix falls on all of that research and all of the work that we did on that. And you'll have the same thing. There's actually two antennas in here. So if you look at the graphic that we have here, you can see on the top, in the center is a picture of the card with just one of the antennas attached. But if you see on that left-hand graphic at the top, you can see there's one antenna that's kind of pulled up out there. It actually mounts where that red tape is there. And then the other antenna rolls down to the side and mounts in the same position that the old CDMA antenna did. On the card we've got kind of the cellular indicators that we call the link indicators that tell you are you connected to the cellular network, are you connected to the back-end central station. You can see there's real information being delivered from those LEDs. And then obviously you've got your signal bars. So we're incredibly excited to roll out LTE for the Helix. It's something that's from the very first time that we talked about the Helix solution. And we were at the same time talking about the LTE communicators. People were asking about it. So here it is. It's out. So we're effectively replacing the CDMA solution with the LTE solution. All right. And fantastic. Your first product announcement, right? Hallelujah. Great. Okay. Let's talk about alarm signaling notifications and controls as they relate to our Helix. Sure. So obviously we're dual-path. We just talked some time talking about that. But one of the great things about the Helix is this is always on system. And it gives you kind of that instant responsiveness that people are looking for from their apps. So either we go up to whether it's talking about home control or talking about the alarm system. But we also have really advanced network supervision. So all of these transactions, all of the communication between the Helix and our network cloud and the central stations, all of that's monitored. We know within minutes if there's a problem with that device. And then obviously we can deliver notifications around that. And all of that infrastructure enables our smart devices and our secure smart app. Okay. Great. Now this slide is a little bit of a review from our last presentation. But let's talk a little bit about accessories and sensors for Helix. Yes. So one of the incredible things about the Helix platform is the wide variety of sensors that you've got for it and the ways that each of those sensors communicate with the panel. So if you've got sensors that are things like a PIR, an infrared sensor, or the smoke or CO detection, or a tilt sensor, a water sensor, temperature sensors, and your typical window and door sensors, all of those communicate with the Helix over what we call the cryptics network. I think we've got a good slide in here. A couple of slides later, this really kind of breaks out all the antennas. But those are all at the 433 megahertz part of the spectrum. Okay. And they're there for a reason, right? That we're using that part of the spectrum for a reason. And that's because when you're down at 433 megahertz range, that is a really good job putting terrain through windows and doors and walls. The wall. It's a nice, long spectrum. Okay. So there's that. But then it's also broken out, right? Because we've also got devices talking to the Bluetooth radiums and even to the Wi-Fi radios in the device. So each function was separated out. That's a part of the architecture of the Helix. And that's something that a lot of people don't realize. So we're having a deep dive conversation. So I think it's important to kind of break out a little bit. The keypads are talking to the Bluetooth radios. Okay. And the Helitouch, the 7-inch touchscreen device, that's talking to the Wi-Fi radio. Okay. And that design is on purpose. So those things all stay out of each other's way. If I've got a lot of activity happening on a keypad or on a Helitouch, there's no cross talk with that traffic with the sensors that are happening. So it's all by design. Fantastic. A lot of thought went into this. Exactly. That's great. Let's talk a little bit about Z-Wave qualified automation devices for the Helix. Sure. So what we've done is we just completed the capabilities to control these devices. So what we've done is we've put together a list of all of the different things that we've done a full testing regimen on, which means we know these devices work and work well. Sometimes you'll find that you'll see this qualified list. That means that we've done testing, and we've found either that company's implementation of the protocol was a little wonky, or they didn't fully implement the protocol. And so we know that it will work with them, but we have caveats, right? We'll say this piece of functionality works and works great, but because of the way the company implemented something, we don't have this additional set of functionality. Okay. And that's true for, especially for the more complex devices, things like door locks and thermostats. I think thermostats is probably the place where we find that the most really, really high level of complexity. You'll see that of 12 that were qualified, only six, or would be one that we would say all the functions work, and they work well with our system. Okay. It's not a vagary of our system. It's an artifact of the fact that Z-Wave over time is involved as a platform, and you've got lots of different versions of it out there. Okay. Great. Thanks for explaining that and breaking it down for us. Let's talk about the variety of expansion cards available for Helix right now. Yeah. Again, the great thing about the Helix is its modular capabilities, right? And so the translator card enables you to take with a single card and a very low investment in terms of dollars in time, install the card into the Helix, and take over other sensors that already exist in the space. So you're talking 2GIG, GE, Natco, DSC, Honeywell, the full range of wireless sensors that exist. You can put a translator card in the Helix and take over those sensors. So that makes the Helix a great takeover play, right? There's also a Z-Wave card, and both the translator and the Z-Wave card don't live in slot three, which I think I've got a graphic here in a minute that will show the various slots, but they live in slot three. So we also have obviously the Z-Wave card, that's for home automation, home control. We also have a third card that fits in that slot, and that's a combo. It's a translator card and a Z-Wave card, so you don't have to give up the Z-Wave if you need translator functionality. So there's three cards that live in that slot three. And then you'll see I've got LTE listed here. That's because we really, when we look at it, CMA is the last generation technology. We're moving forward to LTE, and so LTE is going to be our offering going forward on the Helix. If you want or need dual-path, LTE is the way to go. And then in slot two, you can populate that with a Wi-Fi card. We have two different flavors of the Wi-Fi card. One of them is for just communicating with the Helitouch device with our seven-inch touchscreen. The other one is if you want to have either a tripod or to replace your Ethernet cable with a Wi-Fi connection to your home network. So there's two different cards there, and it's important that people understand that they do serve two different functionalities and don't get the wrong one ordered. And as expansion cards, the dealers are able to customize this to fit their end-user's needs, correct? Absolutely. That's kind of the whole point here. Between future-proofing and the customization, the whole idea is this. Don't spend more money than you have to, right? Right. If I have a customer and they want the whole shebang, they want everything, great. I can populate all those cards. I can give them a couple of Helitouches. They'll have a Z-Wave. They'll have home controls. They'll have the entire cabinet. But if I have somebody who says, you know what? I just need a simple, simple security system, great. We've got that too. And it starts at the same base, the same hardware. But that person that says today, all I can afford is that simple security system, they're tomorrow's whole-home automation user, and they don't even know it yet because you can always go add the Z-Wave card and start adding Z-Wave twice. Right. You could start off very cost-conscious and then upgrade through time. Absolutely. Right. Now, this is, I think, one of the slides that you were talking about. Let's go over Helix architecture. Yes, I know that when we've had this slide and we've talked about the Helix before, this is a, here's the Helix that we kind of move on. I want to actually kind of walk through some of this stuff and dig in a little bit. So slot one, the slot that's on the farthest left, that is the slot that we use for extended communications. We're talking about dual paths. This is where the CDMA card or the GSM card, if you were in some place where you needed GSM, or in this case, the case of the new card, the LTE card. Okay. That's where those live. It's also where the Wi-Fi card would live if you were using Wi-Fi instead of Ethernet as your backhaul to the network, right? Right. You can put all those in that slot. Next to that is slot two. That's the Wi-Fi slot. So you could put either the Wi-Fi card for backhaul there or the Wi-Fi card for talking to the Helitouch modules. Okay. So that's what we use slot two for. And we actually have lots of plans for slot two, so we have other things that we would like to do going forward. And that's part of this architecture, right, is that we can do that. We can say, hey, you know what? I've got the right bandwidth and the right connectivity there. I can go use that for other things later. Okay. And then slot three is for Z-Wave and translator cards. We've already talked about those some, so I'm not going to spend too much time on it. But then the other two things I want to point out here is in the top right, kind of off on its own, it's separate-weighted and those long antennas that come out of the top and run off to the side. Yes. Those are the 433 MHz antennas for the cryptics receiver. Okay. So you've got the cryptics receiver and radio up at the top. And then on the bottom, on the right, is where the Bluetooth radio is. A lot of people ask about the Bluetooth radio. It's there for a couple of reasons. One reason is for installation purposes. When I'm installing the Helix, I can use our HeliLink app. It currently works on iOS, but I can use the HeliLink app to connect directly to the panel. And it will share, it will download all the features of the panel. It will tell me, these are all the zones that are installed. And I can literally walk through on the HeliLink app and make any modifications, configuration changes, things like that that I want to do. But that uses a Bluetooth low-energy signal so that as soon as I get a little bit further away, that signal will drop, right? And that's important because I don't want somebody to be able to do that remotely. I don't want somebody to sit outside with a cell phone manipulating my system. Okay. So you're doing this on site? Yes. It's for the installer, right? And it's a piece of software that was written specifically for installers I'm doing it on site. And then also we've got the backup battery. Look, this is a UL-listed panel. And so I see UL-listed. It's a UL-qualified panel, right? Okay. So the backup battery means that we have to have at least 24 hours. This actually gives us a little bit more than that. And then you've got the siren. It's important to note that you can, in software, you can turn the siren off. So some people say, well, why in the world would I want to turn the siren off? Well, what you might do is you might, your situation might be like mine. My HeliLink is upstairs in my game room behind the entertainment center. Okay. And that's not the great place for the siren to go off. And if I've got an intruder, I don't want them to run upstairs and find the HeliLink and yank it out of the wall and pull things, pull the battery out, right? They might do that. They might destroy the panel. Absolutely. So what I can do is I can turn this siren off, but then have a remote siren. And that's actually one of the, to me, one of the great features. I can have remote sirens in a couple of rooms. I can put one in the attic like you've done in the past. And then obviously kind of continuing around, you've got the device enrollment button and the Ethernet port. Remember, we're IP first. So that Ethernet port is really our gateway to the Internet and to the security cloud. Fantastic. Great architecture there. Let's talk a little bit more about HeliLink's security. Sure. So the HeliLink was built from the ground up. Obviously it's a security product. So we took every pain to sort through all of the possible ways that the system could be attacked. And that all starts kind of with the root, with the kernel, the smallest component of the operating system. We designed that from scratch, right? So it was designed specifically for the HeliLink. It's not like Linux or Android. It's not something that, you know, that patching and all those types of things that you kind of think you have to worry about. Okay. Don't need antivirus or anything like that for this thing. But it's, the thing to remember here is that all of the services, everything that runs on it, the only way to modify it is from us. We're the only ones that can touch it. Okay. And it's encrypted. So, you know, a lot of people say, oh, that's bad because that's a closed system. But what we've done is we've designed an API stack in our cloud. So if we need to integrate with other partners, we absolutely can. Okay. And we've got other methodologies to do that. But the key takeaways here was this was designed from the ground up to be hyper secure. Even between the cards, we saw the architecture where we've got the different cards. Between cards, the data is encrypted. It moves from one card to the other to the next card if that is the pathway it needs to take. So on device it's encrypted. So if you think about the system as a whole, it's got no built-in user interface. So there's no way to attack it from a touch screen perspective, right? Even when we've got touch screens, they're separated physically from the panel, right? It's all one built-in thing. And the idea is that your interface is going to be your cellular device or some iPad, your tablet. So that gives us a leg up right from the start. Okay. But the key takeaway here is that literally from the sensor to the panel, from the panel to all of the cards within the panel and from those cards or the ethernet port all the way up to the cloud, all the data is encrypted every segment across the way and it rests in the cloud. So that's really the important takeaway here. Okay. And now on this next slide, you dig a little bit deeper with security. Yeah. So some people want to dig in, and this is a deep dive, so let's talk about how that works, right? And really this is all done using really standard asymmetric cryptography. We took standards that were developed for department of defense and those types of things, and we adapted them to these use cases. Okay. So you've got a set of keys, and those keys are shared and exchanged between the panel and the cloud and between the cryptics devices in the panel, and that keeps all of this secure. And that security is there for a whole bunch of reasons. It's not just there because we want to have a secure panel. It's also, it protects, you know, takeover of those cryptics devices, right? You take that panel and throw another one in, and it all works. You've got a takeover protection there as well. Okay. Fantastic. Let's talk a little bit about the secure smart apps. Yeah. So this is kind of near and dear to my heart. I work on these apps every day, and I spend a lot of time with the developers. So these are my babies. But the main thing for me that is important about the apps is that we always, we are always moving the apps forward, right? We just released, you would never know it, but we just released a new version for Android. And you actually have two choices in the settings. You've got a choice to kind of take a step back and use the old version, or you can change the setting, and you've got a completely new version of the Android app that kind of swipes left and right, and you've got different, you know, the panes and panels that you can use. We're always pushing these apps forward. And it's something that anybody who calls in and says, hey, I'm having a problem with that, I'm going to say, make sure you're on the newest version because we're iterating very, very quickly on the apps. And as always, and it's a core tenant of how we do business, dealer first, right? So you're always going to find a dealer logo in the apps, even though we like to talk about SecureSmart, but SecureSmart's generic, it's generic on purpose, so that the dealer logo can be first and it can be about the dealer app. Fully customizable. Fully customizable. That's fantastic. And we intend to advance these. I expect that into the year early in Q1 you'll see huge advancements in the apps, but that's with lots of incremental steps along the way. Okay, available at the Apple App Store or Google Play. Scott, now I know a lot of the folks out in our audience are already with IP Datatel, but let's talk a little bit about doing business with IP Datatel. Sure, so we've talked as we've gone through this about some of our core tenants, right? We like to talk about being future-proofed, but part of being future-proofed is about having really reliable service. And so IP Datatel is reliable alarm communications. Absolutely. One of the things we like to talk about is universal panel compatibility. Helix is not only on the communicator side, where we've got a huge array of panels that we're compatible with, but also on the Helix side, right? You've got translator modules. We can take over a whole bunch of sensors. We're compatible with an amazing array of devices in the marketplace. We've talked about how simple it can be to install Helix. I think that the same applies for our communicator line. The interactive services, the software, we're one of the few people in the marketplace that can deliver the entire experience, right? Everything from the hardware, the sensors, all the way through the interactivity components, through the cloud, and all the way through to the actual software, the user interface. That makes this unique in the space. And we've focused on helping the dealers, helping them run their business, rather than look how awesome our app is, right? We think our app is awesome, but that's not the focus. And then smart devices. We focus on, because we're focused on your business, we're always trying to eliminate truck rolls and keep your costs down. Fantastic. 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