The Dunkl operators are commuting differential-reflection operators on the Euclidean space \({\mathbb R}^d\) associated with a root system R and a multiplicity function \(\kappa \ge 0\) . There have been several works on the Hardy space \({\mathscr {H}}_\kappa ^1\) associated with the Dunkl operators. In this paper, we focus on the area integral characterization of the Hardy space \({\mathscr {H}}_\kappa ^1\) . Specifically, we introduce a “global” Lusin-type area integral, which is defined by means of Dunkl’s generalized translation and the Dunkl operators. We shall show that for a generalized harmonic function on the upper half-space, its non-tangential maximal function and its Lusin-type area integral are globally equivalent in terms of \(L_\kappa ^1\) -norm.