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Overview

BluSKY is the ultimate security platform designed specifically for retail spaces and stores. With its user-friendly and unified web interface, BluSKY provides all major security functions for retail spaces and stores of any size, while also reducing operating costs for every facility it serves. 

BluSKY solves key security challenges faced by retail spaces and stores, including ease of use, flexibility, system unification, partitioning, viewing, control and administration from anywhere, database integration, audits and compliance, cybersecurity protection, false alarms, video on demand, frictionless visitor and vendor processing, intercom, and more. 

BluSKY can help enhance the shopping experience by providing a safe and secure environment for customers and employees. With the ability to monitor foot traffic, track inventory, and prevent theft, BluSKY provides a complete security solution for retail spaces and stores. 

If you're looking for the best security solution for your retail space or store, look no further than BluSKY. Explore its features in more detail below and discover why BluSKY is the ideal choice for your security needs. 

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Key Benefits
  1. Cloud-based with Local Hardware Redundancy

  2. True Mobile Security – Control, Response and Management from Anywhere

  3. BluREMOTE - Portal and Floor Access Using Your Smartphone

  4. Unified Platform with a Simple, Intuitive Interface

  5. Non-Proprietary - Open Hardware and Software

  6. Video Delivered Everywhere

  7. Intrusion Detection, UL Central Station Monitoring and Video Verification

Key Features

  1. AI-Based Deep Monitoring, Notification and Automated Response

  2. Integrated Lock Sets

  3. Intercom from Anywhere

  4. System Health and Power Management

  5. Easy Transition

  6. Retail References

  7. Product Roadmap for the Retail Vertical

Cloud-based with Local Hardware Redundancy

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  1. Running in redundant Microsoft Azure data centers
  2. Best possible security infrastructure
  3. Redundant everything in each data center
  4. “Hot” redundant between data centers
  5. Automatic data backup – never lose data
  6. Automatic software upgrades with no downtime 
  7. Best possible cyber security protection
  8. Separate the people from the computers, data, and network
  9. Available to everyone that is supposed to have access
  10. Triple redundant Internet connection – fiber/hardwire, WIFI, cellular
  11. Local hardware continues to function regardless of internet connection
 

True Mobile Security – Control, Response and Management from Anywhere

  1. Real-time control, response, status and management from everywhere
  2. 100% functionality – no limitations
  3. ADAWATAB – Any device, Anywhere, Any Time, Any Browser
  4. Device and operating system agnostic
  5. No software to load, manage or update
  6. No apps needed for your mobile device
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BluREMOTE - Portal and Floor Access Using Your Smartphone

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  1. Ability to use your mobile device to unlock doors, turnstiles, relay elevators, and DDE and receive DDE assignments
  2. Also provides remote control capability for reception areas, gates, parking garages, and visitors 

Unified Platform with a Simple, Intuitive Interface

  1. AI, Access, Alarms, Intrusion, Video, Relay Elevator, DDE, Visitor, Vendor, Intercom, Biometric, Power
  2. A simple intuitive Web interface
  3. What everyone is used to
  4. No operator manual required
  5. Less expensive, more capable and fewer issues than with siloed “Frankenware” systems
  6. One Database, One UI, One Event Clock – easy to learn
  7. Can also integrate with other systems to leverage Deep Monitoring capabilities of BluSKY
  8. Fire, BMS, Elevator, IT, etc
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Non-Proprietary - Open Hardware and Software

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  1. Future-proof and never locked in
  2. Mercury Hardware and Open API
  3. Open, industry standard security 
  4. Connects
  5. Off the shelf PCs and peripherals
  6. Flexibility to move away from BluBØX
  7. All customer data is freely accessible and exportable to excel at any time by the customer
  8. All hardware is reusable 
  9. Flexibility to change service providers
     

Video Delivered Everywhere

  1. Notifications with link to video
  2. Video verification of alarms
  3. Situational awareness post-alarm
  4. Live Video
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Intrusion Detection, UL Central Station Monitoring and Video Verification

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BluSKY’s Alarm Management consolidates alarm response and management for a single facility or across an entire enterprise. Seamlessly integrating with leading third-party alarm panels and other hardware, Alarm Management employs an efficient, easy-to-use interface to ensure fast, consistent alarm response and reporting. Security staff can view a comprehensive data dashboard and perform all functions regardless of their location; user-defined rules allow for automatic notification of key personnel and other actions. In addition, Alarm Management stores all audit and response information within the BluSKY database, providing powerful facilities for business intelligence and trend analysis. 

Alarm Management and Intrusion Detection

Alarm Management and Intrusion Detection Architecture

AI-Based Deep Monitoring, Notification and Automated Response

  1. Continuously monitor hardware, software, and communications to ensure everything is working properly
  2. Notifies the proper people automatically if there is an issue and what the problem is
  3. Proactively looks for potential trouble spots
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Integrated Lock Sets

  1. Expand access control deeper into the building 
  2. Secure bathrooms, IDF closets, mechanical rooms, storage rooms
  3. Wi-Fi Locks require less infrastructure and cabling making them more cost effective
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Intercom from Anywhere

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  1. All-In-One Intelligent Reader, Intercom, Camera, and Visitor Entry Device
  2. Multi-biometric, Multi-factor
  3. Uses face, card, Bluetooth, QR Codes, or Cloud Credential
  4. Proof of presence photo for every entry

System Health and Power Management

  1. Intelligent Power Modules
  2. Control, Diagnose, View from Anywhere
  3. Power Monitoring, Notification, and Response
  4. AI, Rules, Power Analytics
  5. Power Management Applications
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Easy Transition

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  1. Conversion can be done over a weekend
  2. Maintain card compatibility
  3. We can read and reuse existing cards
  4. Case Study – 11 Times Square

Retail References

  1. BluSKY is the best solution for Retail
  2. Many installations throughout the US
  3. Retail Reference List
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Product Roadmap for the Retail Vertical

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What BluSKY will do in the future is as important as what it does today and should be a major consideration when evaluating products. BluBØX provides continuous improvement to its products and BluSKY evolves rapidly through monthly software releases. For this reason, we make our Product Roadmap publicly available for all to see and consider. We also receive tremendous feedback from our partners, consultants and end users that also becomes part of the product roadmap. If you have any good ideas for BluREMOTE or BluSKY please send us your thoughts to support@blub0x.com.

Our current thinking for future enhancements to BluSKY for the Retail are as follows:

  1. Audits with Teeth
  2. Banking Center Keyless Reports
  3. Biometric Visitor and Vendor Processing
  4. Analytics
  5. Situational Awareness