Honeywell Owned Dragonfly Tested

Author: Ethan Ace, Published on Jun 02, 2017

In 2016, Honeywell acquired RSI / Videofied for $123 million. Honeywell is marketing their DragonFly offering as "DIY for Our Dealers with an RMR Business-in-a-box"

We bought and tested DragonFly both indoors and out, testing detection accuracy, video quality, system usability and more, through three months of installed testing.

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Andrew Tierney

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IPVM | In reply to Andrew Tierney | 06/07/17 10:02am

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