The UCM/GSM provides a cellular phone connection to the Comfort Intelligent Home System, an integrated Intruder Alarm and Home Automation system with voicemail.
This gives Comfort the following abilities:
- Acts as a backup for dial-out on alarm activation when the land line is faulty or cut. Or it can be used without a fixed telephone line, for installations where a telephone line is not available or not desired. Comfort's dialler can dial to 8 telephones ( mobile or landline), pagers or Central Monitoring Stations.
- Allows the user to dial to the GSM number instead of the fixed telephone line to access Comfort Voice menus. There is no voicemail on this line.
- Allows Comfort to report alarms to the user’s cellular phone via text message or SMS (SMS message will show the alarm type and Zone description as text).
- Allows users to send commands to control home appliances and the security system via SMS, and receive acknowledgement of the command by return SMS.
In order for the UCM/GSM to be used, there must be a GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) service in the area. GSM is currently widely available is Europe and Asia.
The UCM/GSM requires a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card to be inserted, just like with a cellular phone. This can be a prepaid card, or one billed monthly under any usage plan
