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Increased Power for Alarm Routing

Alarm Route Interface

North's alarm routing module has long been a successful and consistent seller. Our constant drive for improvement has prompted a powerful expansion in the AlmRoute's functionality.

The AlmRoute module was originally designed as a powerful tool for routing alarm events to multiple destinations. AlmRoute can buffer up to 800 alarms waiting to be filtered and distributed to up to 16 destinations. An alarm destination can range from e-mail addresses and ObSys Alarm Managers to printers and mobile phones.

AlmRoute can route alarm messages based on the following rules for each destination:

  • Priority of the alarm message;
  • Contents of the alarm message - comparison of up to three text strings;
  • Combination of both the alarm priority and message contents.

Improvements to content matching

There are three configurable text strings of up to 20 characters for each alarm destination.

Previously, an alarm would be routed to the destination if the alarm contents begins with the same characters as one of these comparison strings. This would be useful if you wished to route alarms from specific systems to a particular destination. For example, the fire, BMS and access alarms could be sent to a maintenance user; and the access and cctv alarms to a security user.

The AlmRoute module now includes a method of how it should compare these comparison strings. These include:

  • Begins with
  • Contains
  • Does not begin with
  • Does not contain

The first additional function to the AlmRoute module is that the comparison string may now appear anywhere within the alarm message, not just at the start. This allows greater flexibility when engineering the module as messages from any system may be routed by a keyword contained within the alarm message. For example, any alarm message containing the text 'fire' may be routed to a printer.

The second improvement is the ability to use the comparison strings to block alarms. This means that if an alarm message contains the text of any of the comparison strings then it will not be routed to this destination. For example, if one of the comparison strings was set to 'acknowledge', then any acknowledge alarm would be filtered from that destination.

PRODUCTS

CP/ALMROUTE/MRTC485 Compass Point for alarm routing
OBS/ALMROUTE ObSys driver module for alarm routing

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