OPC2net for NOTIFIER Fire Panels
Almost every building must have a Fire System installed to detect fire and smoke at its startup. A Fire System is the most important
security system in a building. If the Building Fire System is not installed or malfunctioning, human lives can be on risk in addition
to risking the building inventory and business as a whole.
Fire Systems have been a vital part of building legislations in most countries for decades. It has however not been very common to connect
this vital part of the building control system to Building Management Systems (BMS). Other parts like Air Conditioning, Access Control,
Light Control etc. are normally connected to a BMS in modern buildings.
Until now, there has been some technical limitation for not including the Fire System in BMS. DomesticSoft has broken those barriers
in cooperation with a world leading company in Fire Systems, NOTIFIER Ltd. a Honeywell corporation.
DomesticSoft started developing OPC2Net for NOTIFIER Fire Panels early 2002. It took us more than a year to develope this OPC server. We did not release it before we where 100% sure that it fulfilled all the requirements of fire systems. It had to function for small single panel installations as
well as for large multipanel ID²net® installations with up to 60,000 modules and sensors.
Under the critical situation of fire, OPC2net must bring the right information from the fire panel to the BMS system immediately. Failure
doing this can put human lives on risk. Therefore, we have spent a lot of time testing the solution, to be sure that it works under
the worst and most critical circumstances.
DomesticSoft selected NOTIFIER as a partner in this mission, as NOTIFIER is known to produce one of the best Fire Systems in the world.
If your building turns into fire, you can't accept less than the best Fire System.
When the Fire System is integrated into a BMS, building operators gain very powerful access to the Fire System. Smoke detector malfunction,
false fire signals etc. can be detected at once in the graphical views of a BMS. Controlling like evacuation and zone- or sensor- disablement
can be controlled with few mouse clicks. When fire brakes out, the location of the fire can be spotted much faster than from the fire
panel limited text-based display.
Read more about, why you should include the Fire System in your BMS.
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