IFA 2022 – Yale strengthens its ecosystem for a more connected and secure home

Mainly known for its Linus connected lock, the Swedish Yale offers other connected equipment for the home, such as the Sync Smart Home Alarm. New accessories were also presented on the occasion of the IFA to complete the latter. Five in number, they include a smoke detector and a new compact door and window sensor for indoor use, but also accessories for the outdoors: another opening sensor, an infrared motion detector and a security siren. 104dB. Yale has of course taken care to make its outdoor accessories waterproof. They are IP65 certified, and also benefit from an advertised range of 200 meters. Users should thus be able to operate them with their indoor alarm.

In addition, Yale presented at the Berlin show a small accessory – officially called “a connected furniture lock” – allowing to lock cupboards to limit, for example, access to dangerous products (or sweets) to the children of the house, for 55 €, but also a small safe. Also connected and expected at the recommended retail price of €289, it will allow you to keep your valuables in a safe place while retaining the possibility of sharing remote access using permanent or temporary keys. Remote and voice commands are also provided, but require the addition of a Wi-Fi bridge; the two new products only integrate Bluetooth.

New interactions with Linus

But even more than these hardware novelties, it is on functional novelties that Yale prefers to focus on this IFA 2022. The manufacturer has multiplied the applications by developing its catalog, without really taking the time to communicate them so far. to create interactions between its different devices. It therefore makes it one of its priorities today, and notably announces the integration of the Linus lock into its alarm systems.

In use, the user can, from the pane Works with Yale from the Yale Home app, link their Yale Access account, and set the alarm to automatically turn off when the lock is unlocked to prevent it from going off. The user also gains the ability to control the status of the Linus lock from the Yale Home application, but also to control it. Also, if the Yale Pan & Tilt camera is also installed in the house and connected to the alarm, it will automatically be able to switch to private mode when the latter is deactivated. Yale does not rule out offering a single long-term application, but these “bridges” between applications are already great advances for its ecosystem.

Although it is therefore actively working to strengthen its own ecosystem, Yale is also opening up to that of Somfy to allow the integration of its Linus lock into scenarios with the Tahoma box. It will thus be possible to lock the door while turning off the lights and closing the shutters when leaving the house, or to create the opposite scenario for the return home. Yale also announces the possibility of associating its Philips Hue account in Yale Home in order to use the light as an indicator of activation and deactivation of the alarm. Finally, the manufacturer also told us to prepare for the arrival of Matter, while already warning that interactions would most likely be less extensive with third-party products than between Yale products alone.