Fire Alarm Control Panel Interface
The Alertus emergency notification system is designed with integration in mind. The NFPA 72 compliant fire alarm control panel interface connects your entire mass notification system and provides a comprehensive method for monitoring your fire panel system to both activate and distribute emergency alerts.
This innovative interface takes fire alarm event information from the fire panel, applies smart logic/transformation technologies, and broadcasts messages over multiple communication paths. The system instantly responds upon activation of the fire alarm panel, recognizes the identity of the device initiating the fire alarm, and translates commonly used fire panel abbreviations into an intelligible spoken message. Messages can include data about the nature and location of fire alarms.
Fire Alarm Interface Key Features
Notification Coverage: Fire alarm integration allows fire panel events to activate the Alertus System, extending to the Alert Beacon and text-to-speech functionality to provide spoken voice output. The system also ties in with existing strobes and sounders
Broader Application: The Alertus System can process many different types of fire panel codes to send a variety of pre-configured message distributions using Regex with prioritized conditions
Integration: The fire panel interface is compatible with existing fire alarm panels and PA systems and requires little to no alteration to existing systems
Monitoring: The Alertus System enables the fire panel to suppress integrated notification modalities such as strobes and sirens in the event of an emergency such as an active shooter situation
Specifications:
Alertus Fire Panel interface leverages serial port interface which exists on most legacy and new generation fire panels and control workstations.
Alertus Fire Panel Integration is totally compatible with the NFPA 72 requirements and makes sure to not interfere with Fire panel functionality.
Alertus Solution takes necessary steps to make sure that Alertus Fire panel interface monitors passively and the data flows in one direction only (from the fire panel to the Alertus server)
Alertus converts and transfers fire panel data in a secure manner to the local Alertus Server instance for intelligent processing and automation.
“The system had to have the capability to read a truncated message from the fire alarm panel, convert it to an intelligible plain text language, and distribute it through all the multi-modality means of communication that we currently used—one of which was digital, in-house paging.”
Compatible Fire Panels
The Alertus Fire Panel Interface is using industry standards and is compatible with most fire panel types and models. A selection of the Compatible Fire Panels’ make and models can be found below:
- BOSCH
- Edwards EST
- Edwards IRC
- Evax
- FCI 7100
- FCI 7200
- FCI Broadband
- FCI E3
- FCI FCID
- Siemens MXL
- Siemens XLS
- Silent Knight 9500/9800 Receiver
- Silent Knight 5824 Serial
- Silent Knight Gateway 1
- Silent Knight Gateway 2
- Simplex 4100
- Simplex 4100U
- Firelite
- Gamewell - FCI E3
- Gamewell - Network
- Gamewell - Single Panel
- GE CADXX
- GE EST
- Grinnell
- Keltron
- Notifier - AFP Series
- Notifier 1010/2020 Network
- Notifier Onyx (3030)
Product Resources
Learn how to use your fire panel interface to activate and distribute emergency alerts.
Carolinas HealthCare System implemented the Alertus fire alarm control panel interface to improve emergency response times and communication between departments.
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