Communications: electrical – Condition responsive indicating system – With particular system function
Patent
1998-02-06
1999-09-21
Hofsass, Jeffery A.
Communications: electrical
Condition responsive indicating system
With particular system function
340517, 340521, 34082506, G08B 2900
Patent
active
059559462
ABSTRACT:
An alarm/facility management unit including a housing having a front side and a rear side. The front side includes a liquid crystal display for displaying two lines of up to twenty alphanumeric characters. The front side also includes four control keys which enable a user to access a software program contained within the alarm/facility management unit and perform a number of functions through the program. The front side of the alarm/facility management unit also includes a serial port for enabling communications with a personal computer. The rear side of the alarm/facility management unit includes at least two slots which can receive alarm/facility contact input cards, contact output cards, or serial port expansion cards. These slots can receive alarm/facility cards that provide real-time alarm/facility status on up to sixteen discrete alarm/facility contact inputs. The alarm/facility management unit is scalable from 16 to 128 discrete alarm/facility contact inputs.
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Beheshti Ali
Zamani Sam S.
Hofsass Jeffery A.
Litman Richard C.
Trieu Van T.
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