STAM-1 - Satel
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1. controlled partitions all of them are disarmed arm wrong appears only when the subscriber has some defined timer controlled partitions it means that all the subscriber s timer controlled partitions are armed although they should be disarmed disarm wrong appears only when the subscriber has some defined timer controlled partitions it means that all the subscriber s timer controlled partitions are disarmed although they should be armed p armed if the subscriber has at least 2 timer controlled partitions it means that some of them are armed and some disarmed p arm wrong if the subscriber has at least 2 timer controlled partitions this status means that some of them are armed though they should be disarmed p disarm wrong if the subscriber has at least 2 timer controlled partitions this status means that some of them are disarmed though they should be armed a amp dm wrong if the subscriber has at least 2 timer controlled partitions this status means that some partitions are armed though they should be disarmed while some partitions are disarmed though they should be armed Drg 1 if this button appears the first drawing is assigned to the subscriber the drawing can be viewed on pressing this button Drg 2 the same as for Drg 1 Drg 3 the same as for Drg 1 Red fields with yellow flashing text can appear at the lower right part of the screen The following texts are possible e Armed appearance o2. more detailed information on checking the test transmissions see Testr Tr Caution this type of code does not affect the station work it is added to the event history causing the program to generate an audible signal Other events of this type are only added to the event history Definitions this option available only to the authorized users and active only for the PID subscribers makes it possible to define the identifier by means of which the subscriber s control panel will report to the monitoring station and define names of all the subscriber s partitions and all zones in all partitions and all users in all partitions The panel identifier definition is necessary for the program operation Definition of the names of partitions zones and users though not obligatory will allow when properly defined to easily detect at a later program operation stage where the alarm if any took place at the subscriber s facility When entering a PID type subscriber it is recommended to define at least the names of partitions which occur at the subscriber e Skipping this option available to the authorized users only determines how the station is to react to the incoming Alarm type codes The station can react in three ways skip nothing no alarm events will be disregarded each of them will open a separate alarm window with audible signaling skip same code only the Alarm type code will not open the alarm window when and
3. persons can be read ONLY and EXCLUSIVELY by that person or group of persons Even the supervisor is unable to view the notes which are not addressed to him 12 STAM 1 Monitoring Station SATEL e Notes On Time this function makes it possible to create a note which will be activated at a specified time on a specified day e g as alarm clock The notes of this type provide for no addressees or persons who can delete them Such a note together with the accompanying audible signal will be self activated displayed on the screen at a specified time on chosen days of week throughout a specified period of time When read the note cannot be displayed again until next time it is activated After its last appearance it will be automatically erased Notes Edit the option permits editing the notes which have already been sent The sent notes can only be edited by their author this refers to plain notes and timer controlled notes Configuration the menu which is intended for the supervisor only makes it possible to configure the program add change or delete any installer add change or delete any operator configure the installed cards and other monitoring stations determine the printers and the type of Polish fonts create default descriptions for new subscribers set the screen saver parameters set the time for urging to handle emergency situations define the archiving mode request archivin
4. to check that the station reacts correctly to the corresponding events in the control panel of that particular subscriber Should any abnormalities exist you should look for discrepancies between the data entered into the subscriber s control panel and the data entered into the monitoring station program 7 Creating Templates of Identifiers and Timer controlled Partitions In order to facilitate and speed up entering and organizing data on the subscriber codes the system supervisor as well as the other users entering subscribers may use the so called identifier templates which are delivered with the station program and are located in the Templates directory in the station root directory wz1 type files Based on the templates delivered with the program you can create manually your own templates using any text editor e g the one available in the popular Norton Commander program In each line of the identifier template set a place is provided for a two digit event code event qualifier and event description The following qualifiers are provided eA Alarm type event intervention of station operating personnel required Z Arming type event requires no operating personnel intervention controls the armed mode indicator eW Disarming type event requires no operating personnel intervention controls the armed mode indicator eF Trouble type event intervention of station operating personnel required controls the failur
5. vv_ beginning and end hour minute of arming ww yy rr tt beginning and end hour minute of disarming ss checking method OK by specified times CZ always armed NC always disarmed armed mode not checked jj ii kk II beginning and end day month of exception y activation of the exception possible values are T N NOTE The fields jj ii kk II and y are only provided for exceptions there must be all days of week and all exceptions defined in the file Example A file for exemplary data may look as follows mon 18 50 19 10 05 50 06 20 Ok tue 18 50 19 10 05 50 06 20 Ok wed 18 50 19 10 05 50 06 20 Ok thu 18 50 19 10 05 50 06 20 Ok fri 17 50 18 10 06 50 07 20 Ok sat 16 50 17 10 09 40 10 20 Ok sun 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Cz ex1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 XX 01 01 01 01 N ex2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 XX 01 01 01 01 N ex3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 XX 01 01 01 01 N 8 Verification of System Integrity The station program is provided with a mechanism that checks if anybody has tried to modify the contents of or erase or add any files of the given station Prior to quitting the program the data on existing files are calculated and saved If anybody deletes then a file or modifies its contents manually it will be recorded in the history and launching the program will be impossible without an adequate authority level the supervisor 22 STAM 1 Monitoring Station SATEL obviously has the required authority a
6. MONITORING STATION STAM 1 USER MANUAL Saver GDANSK History of the Manual Updates January 2002 Note added in section referring to printer configuration page 14 1 Introduction The Monitoring Station offered by the SATEL Company is a product which by its features well exceeds the existing market standards The station is designed to work with a PC computer which meets the following requirements Free standard ISA bus slots their number is to be equal to the number of cards to be installed e Processor 386 SX 16MHz or faster because of the program operation speed minimum 486 DX2 66MHz is recommended At least 8MB RAM VGA graphics adapter monitor type is irrelevant but a color one is advisable Hard disk because of the program operation speed a newer generation disk is recommended e MS DOS operating system version 5 0 or later v 6 22 recommended Efficient real time clock with battery backup It is advisable that the computer be fitted with standby power supply For real time documentation of the program operation the computer should be connected to a printer tractor type feeder and folding paper are recommended If the computer has a second printer port another printer may be connected for printing reports Otherwise the reports may be printed by means of the first printer The station is characterized inter alia by the following features e Easy to install t
7. ase of the PID type subscriber the group number is taken from the code received from the subscriber s alarm control panel 2 for an already specified alarm group the program is seeking the description of actions defined in the Alarm Group Actions item 3 if no description corresponding to the specified alarm group has been found the actions described on pressing the Other Actions key will be assigned to this alarm Other Actions this item must be filled out at all times so that the program can always assign some actions to the alarm received In the most simple and probably the most widespread solution the Alarm Group Actions field may remain empty and then all actions will be taken from the Other Actions field It is possible to define up to five actions for each alarm group and also up to five actions for the Other Actions item SATEL STAM 1 Monitoring Station 17 Trouble Actions this item contains information for the operators on how to behave on receiving a trouble message from a given subscriber Similarly as above it is possible to define up to five actions in the event of trouble e Drawings the option enables the subscriber s information drawings to be defined The drawings can be helpful to check fast how the facility is situated in the area how it looks from the street what is its accommodation layout The subscriber s drawings can be printed together with the documentation The program enables each
8. button the operator will have to enter his access code which will be recorded in the event history If the operation cannot be done press the Give Up button which will require entering apart from the operator s code also the explanation why the operation cannot be performed Cancel the button makes it possible to terminate handling the event at the present moment but it can be resumed at a later time Alarms information is provided under the button on the frame indicating how long ago any alarm was triggered at the particular subscriber within the last 24 hours Pressing this button will bring up the alarms from that subscriber for the last 7 days along with information whether or not they have been handled Troubles function of this button is the same as that of the Alarms button but it refers to the given subscriber s troubles Armed this button provides brief information on the given subscriber s armed mode status The following descriptions are possible SATEL STAM 1 Monitoring Station 7 subscriber s armed mode status is unknown armed if the subscriber has no timer controlled partitions the last received code related to arming disarming was the arming code if the subscriber has timer controlled partitions all of them are armed disarmed if the subscriber has no timer controlled partitions the last received code related to arming disarming was the disarming code if the subscriber has timer
9. drawing to be signed while accepting the bmp file format maximum resolution 640x480 and maximum number of colors 16 Decoding enables a major operation to be done when configuring subscribers which is setting their identifiers and assigning the codes and descriptions to them Each subscriber may have several identifiers and within each of them any code sets of optional types max 225 codes in one identifier There is also an option to read in ready code sets or re write them from another subscriber The following identifiers MUST NOT exist in the system identifier 0000 four digit identifiers whose first three digits coincide with an already existing three digit identifier three digit identifiers whose first two digits coincide with an already existing two digit identifier two digit identifiers whose first digit coincides with an already existing one digit identifier Each code may be of one of the following possible types Alarm receiving this type of code will display the alarm handling window unless conditions are met as defined in the Skipping function provided with the actions defined in Alarm Actions For this type of code you should define the Group field the purpose of which was explained in the description for Alarm Group Actions The definition of alarm groups is SEPARATE for each identifier Arming this code means the armed mode is on at the subscriber It controls the subscriber s armed
10. e 3 Software Installation The installation of software which is fully automatic comes down to the following operations connect the computer to the mains and wait until it boots up e insert a diskette with installation program into the floppy disk station e g A enter from keypad the following commands A lt ENTER gt install exe lt ENTER gt carry out the installation program instructions The last prompt of the installation program is about permission to make changes to the config sys and autoexec bat files the affirmative answer is the best as it will enable the software environment to be properly configured If a mouse is to be used in the station program a line is to be added as necessary to one of the above files to install the driver of the mouse used Then you MUST check that the date and time are properly set in the computer by entering the following commands date lt gt then enter the current date or press ENTER if the displayed data is correct time lt ENTER gt then enter the current time or press ENTER if the displayed time is correct Having completed all the above steps reset the computer by simultaneously pressing the keys Ctrl Alt and Delete After the computer restart the monitoring station program will be automatically launched Initially only the system supervisor will be logged in the station his access code being 123 Both the supervisor and the other users should change o
11. e each line if several stations share the same printer e g through an automatic switch NOTE The program works with printers emulating the EPSON or PROPRINTER format e Configuration Subscriber Form the function available to the supervisor only enables default descriptions to be defined for new subscribers After changing the Subscriber Form the following fields of each newly created subscriber will be preliminary filled out Subscriber Address Telephone Alarm Trouble Additional Info Test Tr The function is helpful i a in organizing the Additional Information field Configuration Screen Saver this function available to the supervisor only determines if the screen saver is active and defines the time since the last event pressing releasing a key or a mouse movement after which it will be activated The screen saver protects the monitor from unnecessary burn out when nothing occurs in the system The screen saver mode is exited by pressing any key moving the mouse or AUTOMATICALLY when the station receives any event from one of the cards Configuration Urging this function available to the supervisor only determines the time after which the request is repeated to handle an alarm trouble or another event that needs to be handled but nobody handled it last time These options can also be disabled separately for the alarms troubles and armed modes then the program will not be reminding o
12. e indicator e NKK Restore type event end of trouble requires no operating personnel intervention controls trouble indicator cancels the previously sent KK trouble code eT Test type event test transmission intervention if there is no code at the specified time or no code within that time eU Caution type event signaled with an audible signal but requires no operating personnel intervention Other type event requires no intervention not signaled The lines beginning with a semicolon and the empty lines are treated as comments An exemplary set of codes in template for a control panel may look as follows 11 A Alarm from zone 21 P End of alarm from zone SATEL STAM 1 Monitoring Station 21 31 Z Arming 41 W Disarming 81 F Battery failure 91 N81 Batery restore AA T Test transmisssion F1 U Event buffer overflow E1 P Service mode ON The same principle can be used for defining the timer controlled partition templates which also are located in the Templates folder in the station root directory sc type files A timer controlled partition template file must contain definitions for all days of week and for all exceptions though the sequence of their appearance in the file is of no significance The format of that file must be as follows ddd 22 ww yy rr tt ss jj ii kk Il y where ddd means day of week or an exception possible values being mon tue wed thu fri sat sun ex1 ex2 ex3 ZZ XX CC
13. e to check which installers and operators are included in the program database It also permits scrolling through the basic data on the selected operator or installer i e his first and last name address and telephone number Operators On Duty List this function available to any user of the system makes it possible to check which operators are currently on duty The operator is on duty when he enters himself in the list through the Operators Shift Start menu e Operators Shift Start this function available to the operators only SHOULD be used by any operator who begins his shift Using the function records the fact in the program history and enables the operator to handle the emergency situations the operator being off duty cannot handle the emergency events received by the system Operators Shift End this function available to the operators only SHOULD be used by any operator who ends his shift It will record the fact in the program history and prevent the operator from handling the emergency situations Operators Change Code this function available to ALL users of the system is used to change the own access code by any user of the system The code change SHOULD be made by each new user so that the supervisor who has created him cannot know the new user s code The change is made in three steps enter the current code enter the new code re enter the new code to eliminate errors e g having struck the wr
14. es the Event List main window enter the filtering mode it will only display the events related to the selected subscriber both received through the cards and generated by the program e g No arming at specified time e Subscribers Documentation the function enables a selected subscriber s documentation to be printed out It is possible to print all the elements constituting the subscriber description or a selected part of them Prior to the actual printing the user has an option to view on screen the contents of printout e Subscribers Archiving if activated by the system the function enables the subscribers database to be archived Archiving the subscribers database should be done on a regular basis preferably on entering a few new subscribers or after changing definition of a subscriber When ready the subscribers archive makes it possible to restore the subscribers database in the event of an unexpected trouble of the computer system on which the STAM 1 program has been installed The function is activated after each modification of the subscribers database i e after SATEL STAM 1 Monitoring Station 11 editing addition or deletion of a subscriber provided it is permitted by the supervisor by adequate settings in Configuration Archiving Mode The archiving can only be carried out by the supervisor and the persons authorized by him Operators List this function available to any user of the system makes it possibl
15. estoring archive data the installer will be able himself to restore the archived data e Configuration Operators the function available to the supervisor only permits adding editing and deleting operators The operators are persons who spend most of the time with the station they monitor the events incoming to the station from the subscribers and upon receiving a signal on alarm trouble arming disarming or no arming disarming they have to react according to the screen prompts of the monitoring station and confirm the action with their password The operator cannot do anything else without additional authority granted by the supervisor he can send a note to any person s in the system Each operator may have the following additional authority levels which are defined specifically for him and which can be re defined by the supervisor during operation of the system installer so that the operator can add new subscribers editing subscribers the operator will be able to edit the subscribers which already exist in the system editing alarm skipping the operator will be able to change the default mode of skipping alarms for created or edited subscribers deleting subscribers the operator will be able to delete subscribers exiting program the operator will be able to exit the program and get around the DOS system accepting integrity errors in case of an unexpected termination of the program e g power su
16. etc CAUTION Any change of the subscriber type from normal to PID or vice versa will result in erasing of all his current IDs as well as in deletion of all schedules defined for him e Subscriber this field defines the first and last name or the name of a given subscriber e Address this field should contain a complete address of the particular subscriber Telephone this field should contain telephone numbers including the area numbers where necessary of the particular subscriber e Additional Info these fields are intended for additional information on the subscriber that may be of different significance for each subscriber For organizing the data it is advisable that you determine in the Configuration Subscriber Form prior to entering all the subscribers what in what order and in what form will the additional information fields contain e g access confirmation password telephone or address of other persons connected with that subscriber Alarm Actions two kinds of information can be provided in this item Alarm Group Actions defining an action for the selected subscriber alarm groups The alarm groups undefined in this item will be provided with the actions shown in the Other Actions item The actions are assigned to the alarms by the station program according to the following principle 1 for a received alarm code the program is searching the database for the number of alarm group assigned to it in c
17. f the given type of event to be handled e Configuration Archive Mode this function available to the supervisor only determines how the system reminds of the need to archive the data on subscribers system status event history and program configuration Irrespective of the reminders the archiving can be performed by the supervisor and or duly SATEL STAM 1 Monitoring Station 15 authorized system users their own initiative calling Configuration Archiving Request function e Configuration Archiving Request this function available to the supervisor authorized users only makes it possible to archive a selected portion of the system data Configuration Dearchiving this menu restores from the archive any fragment of the system data including the following data groups program configuration Subscribers database program status and event history over the last 3 months e Configuration Archiving this function available to the supervisor and authorized users only makes it possible to archive the program settings as well as all the installed operators and installers Help Help this function available at any moment of the program operation offers assistance to the user as to the meaning of the currently completed form option opened menu etc Help About Program the function displays information i a on the current version of the program e Help End the function ends the program and re
18. f this field means that the system contains at least one unhandled event from the group of following events arming at a wrong time when the station receives the arming code from a subscriber but according to that subscriber s definition of partitions the arming by that code should not occur at the given time disarming at a wrong time when the station receives the disarming code from a subscriber but according to that subscriber s definition of partitions the disarming by that code should not occur at the given time no arming at the specified time the event generated by the program when it detects no arming within the specified time at one of the subscribers 8 STAM 1 Monitoring Station SATEL no disarming at the specified time the event generated by the program when it detects no disarming within the specified time at one of the subscribers e Alarm this field means that there is at least one unhandled ALARM type event in the system Trouble this field means that there is at least one unhandled TROUBLE type event the system e Archive the station program reminds with this field that one of the following archive groups should be archived program configuration subscribers database program status and history of events for the last 3 months NOTE Archiving of ANY of the system data will not delete them from the system the purpose of archiving is to make backup copies of these data If there is a mouse i
19. g of any portion of the data restore from the archive all the program components perform archiving of the program configuration Configuration Supervisor this function available only to the supervisor enables the program to be configured Configuration includes the following options determining the disk and directory where the event history files will be located determining the disk and directory where the subscriber IDs defining files will be located determining the disk and directory where the files defining subscriber s timer controlled partitions will be located setting the default option for skipping alarms which is valid for the newly created subscribers defining the operator actions in case of telephone line failure setting the system time and date etc Separation of the catalogs used by the program is useful for keeping order on the disk and where several disks exist it enables all of them to be used NOTE This function must be performed for the program to run if the configuration file has been damaged CAUTION The Current Time function which appears in this menu should be used very carefully as it may cause the program to behave in an unexpected way It regards particularly setting an earlier time because new events will be added to the previous days of the program history e Configuration Installers this function which is only available to the supervisor enables adding editing and de
20. he station is made in the form of cards to be installed in a computer Receiving transmissions through telephone links recognition of the following available transmission formats Silent Knight Ademco slow Sescoa Franklin DCI Vertex Silent Knight fast Radionics 1400 Hz Radionics 2300 Hz Radionics with parity 1400 Hz Radionics with parity 2300 Hz Ademco Express Silent Knight Ademco slow extended Sescoa Franklin DCI Vertex extended Silent Knight fast extended Radionics 1400 Hz extended Radionics 2300 Hz extended Ademco Point ID PID Storing into the history log EVERY received event message irrespective of whether or not the message identifier appears in the database Storing into the history log all major actions of system users Context sensitive help F1 key for each part of the program Program interfacing with the VISONIC RC 4000 radio stations Detection of the telephone line damage Coding of all written information on the disk Option to pass notes from one user to another e Option to create notes activated with an audible signal at a defined time chosen days of week through the specified period 2 STAM 1 Monitoring Station SATEL Screen saver Various access levels defined separately for each user of the system the system supervisor having FULL authority Database for over 50 000 subscribers Possibility to ass
21. ign several IDs to each subscriber Possibility to assign up to three information drawings to each subscriber as bmp files with a maximum resolution 640x480 and maximum 16 colors Possibility to define up to five actions for each emergency situation separately for each subscriber Various options of handling control panel test transmissions individually for each subscriber every specified number of days at a defined time at a defined time after the last transmission not less frequently than within the specified time interval e Different categories of codes definable independently for each subscriber and identifier alarm arming disarming trouble end of trouble test transmission other Automatic reporting of emergency events at any time of program operation when handling an emergency event occurrence of a new emergency situation is only signalized with an audible signal 2 Hardware Installation The basic set of the monitoring station i e consisting of one card includes the following components should any of them be missing a complaint should be lodgeg with the supplier basic card of the monitoring station with RS socket on the fixing strip RS cable to connect the card to the computer serial port e floppy disk with the installation program of STAM 1 monitoring station The expansion card set includes the following components monitoring station expansion card with
22. itions the status of his armed mode is only determined on the basis of the last received arming disarming code NOTE Flashing flags mean that the status represented by them should not currently appear as it is defined in the given subscriber s timer controlled partition If one of the above mentioned windows has been opened and it contains information on abnormalities occurring at least at one subscriber then after opening the window a flag corresponding to the highest priority subscriber with irregularities is highlighted If two or more of them have the same priority the subscriber with the longest lasting abnormality will be highlighted 5 Program Menu The program menu offers the following items which have the corresponding functions Status Alarms see description at the end of preceding section Status Troubles see description at the end of preceding section Status Armed see description at the end of preceding section e Status Archiving activation of this option enables you to archive the history of events from the last 3 months and the current status of the subscribers armed status alarms and troubles This option is only accessible to the supervisor and authorized persons e Report Subscriber the function enables a report to be printed out for a selected subscriber Such a report may serve the purpose of showing the number of events the station received from the subscriber s control panel Prior to the
23. ituated in the middle of the upper frame of that window is its title Event List The window can be in a state of filtration then only some events are displayed in it this status being signaled at the window title e g when the system events filtration is selected the window title is Event List System Filtration ESC Cancels lf the window SATEL STAM 1 Monitoring Station 5 is in the filtration state pressing the ESC key will quit this mode display all events and highlight the last event Situated at the lower left portion of the Event List window frame are three character fields the first characters of which are the numbers of cards installed in the system from 0 to F respectively There only appear fields of the cards which have been selected in the Card Configuration The other two characters in the field define the current status of the card The most significant of the possible statuses are the following the card is waiting for the events from subscribers panels it does not engage the telephone line and the telephone line is OK This is the default status of the card it is expected to be always in when no messages are coming e the card is waiting for the events despite of the telephone line TROUBLE Detection of a telephone line trouble will be reported to the operator through the alarm handling window e DZ the card has detected a call and will go off hook right away wi the card is waiting for
24. leting installers The installers are users who can add new subscribers to the system Without additional authority granted by the supervisor they are unable to do anything else even to edit the existing SATEL STAM 1 Monitoring Station 13 subscriber despite that the given subscriber was created by the particular installer but send a note to any person s in the system Each installer may have the following additional authority levels which are defined specifically for him and which can be re defined by the supervisor during operation of the system operator the installer will be able to handle alarms troubles and wrong armed modes if there is no operator nearby editing subscribers the installer will be able to edit the subscribers which already exist in the system editing alarm skipping the installer will be able to change the option of skipping alarms for created or edited subscribers deleting subscribers the installer will be able to delete subscribers exiting program the installer will be able to exit the program accepting integrity errors in case of an unexpected termination of the program e g power supply failure the installer will be able to restart it clearing trouble the installer will be able to clear the troubles which should be cleared by the control panels using a decode archiving data if requested by the program the installer will be able to archive the required portion of data r
25. m the subscriber the highlighted event comes from The filtering means that the Event List window will only display the events which meet the above mentioned condition Identifier only the events having the same identifier as the highlighted event will be filtered Go with this option you can indicate the date after which the events are to be displayed in the main window you can also reach the required place using the arrows etc however it may be time consuming operation Line this option offers filtering of the events from a selected card telephone line only 6 STAM 1 Monitoring Station SATEL Type this option only filters the events of the same type as that of the highlighted event e g troubles System filtering the system events i e the events which do not come from any card events with no card telephone line number Unhandled filtering the unhandled events only ESC quits the mode of filtering the displayed events displays all the events and goes over to the last event If the Event List window has not been set in the filtering mode pressing of this key will have no effect By using the mouse you can indicate directly the event of interest in the Event List window By left clicking the mouse with the pointer situated at the lower or upper frame of that window you can move the highlighting in a similar way as with the or down arrow keys Under the Event List window on the lef
26. mode identifier and is used to check if it occurred at the right time interval see Times Disarming this code means the armed mode is off at the subscriber Its functions are analogous to those of the Arming code type Trouble appearance of this code means a trouble in the subscriber s control panel e g battery failure It will always display the trouble handling window unless the subscriber is currently deactivated Restore the meaning of this code is opposite to the Trouble code type it conveys information about cancellation by the control panel of a previously reported trouble For the Restore type code it is necessary to enter the code Decoding field of the trouble being cancelled The entered Decode must come from the same identifier For example when the code 11 describes the battery failure when the code 12 describes restoration of the battery Decode 11 then if the station receives the code 11 it means battery failure at the given subscriber which will be saved and the station will know that his battery is out of order If the battery is repaired the code 12 will come and based on the Decode 12 the station will know that the subscriber s 18 STAM 1 Monitoring Station SATEL battery is OK which could be checked in the Troubles window see Status Troubles Test this is a specific code to inform the station that the control panel of a particular subscriber has completed a test transmission For
27. n their own the codes assigned to them in order to be sure that nobody else is able to perform operations the fact of it being recorded in the history log NOTE In should be borne in mind that the program is case sensitive in recognizing the access codes Therefore make sure when entering the code that the status of CapsLock keyboard indicator is correct if the attempt to enter the access code is unsuccessful try to change the indicator status using the CapsLock key and then re enter the code 4 STAM 1 Monitoring Station SATEL 4 Program Operation Idea and Operator Main Windows As the program is written in the object language it has the same operation strategy at any place In order to access the available options which are provided on the buttons in menus or dialog boxes you can either e indicate them with the mouse pointer and left click the mouse or press the left ALT key and the highlighted letter of selected key scroll through all the buttons with arrows or the TAB key up to the selected button and then press the spacebar This option makes it possible to reach the above mentioned context sensitive help by pressing the F1 key Also when this option is used a real time function abbreviation of the currently highlighted button or field is displayed in the lower line of the program By pressing the right ALT key and the required letter key you can make use of the Polish fonts in the program It be noted for info
28. nd it can be granted to installers and operators it is the authority to accept integrity errors f during operation of the program the station power supply is cut off there will be some data integrity errors on the attempt to restart the program because the system data files will not be updated NOTE If this happens the existing data will not be lost In such a case the person launching the program must also be authorized to start operation of the station 9 Final Remarks Despite the program being provided with the mechanism verifying its system files starting the program with corrupted files confirmed with an appropriate password will not guarantee correct operation of the program If when the program is running an incorrect data set is detected in any of the system files the program will be terminated immediately If this is the case the best solution is to restore the data from the archive which should be constantly updated during the program use If the access to the data de archiving menu is impossible there are still two ways to restore them either to re install the station program and then to restore the archived data or to try launching the program after deletion of the following sets STMONEXE CFG STMONEXE OFS STMONEXE PRN STMONEXE STA STMONEXE INT STMONEXE C STMONEXE T STMONEXE ABO and then to restore the archived data SATEL sp z 0 0 ul Schuberta 79 80 172 Gda sk POLAND tel 48 58 320 94 00 info
29. nstalled in the system you can place the pointer on one of the above mentioned fields if any and by double clicking the left mouse button cause handling of an event from the class of events described by that field When using this method the highest priority subscriber event will be selected when several events come from subscribers having the same priority the event that appears for the longest time will be selected If the Archive field is chosen the program will ask for archiving the required data groups Another way of handling these events is for Alarms Trouble and Armed reaching the event that needs to be handled in the Event List main window by means of the ENTER key for Archive selecting the active archiving item from the corresponding program menu archiving items can be found in the menus Status Subscribers and Configuration Besides the Event List main window you can also call one of the auxiliary windows Alarms Troubles or Armed through the corresponding items in the Status menu or by pressing the shortcut keys Ctrl F1 Ctrl F2 or Ctrl F3 Open windows be closed by an attempt to re open them Two vertical arrows are provided at the lower right corner of each of those windows By moving the mouse pointer over them while holding down the left mouse button you can change the size of the given window The same operation can be performed by using the Ctrl F5 key combination then pressing the Shift and up o
30. on makes it possible to create edit and delete the timer controlled partitions of the given subscriber The timer controlled partitions contain definitions of the times of arming and disarming at the subscriber on different days On this basis the program can monitor if the current armed mode of the facility is OK and when any abnormality is found the program can notify the operator immediately For each timer controlled partition individual sets of actions for operators are to be defined in case of arming at a wrong time disarming at a wrong time no arming at the specified time no disarming at the specified time For each timer controlled partition it is necessary to assign one subscriber s identifier and indicate the arming disarming codes from that identifier which will control in the station program the armed mode logic of the given timer controlled partition For each partition you should define how its armed mode is to be monitored on every day of week and possibly specify 3 periods of exceptions when the logic of checking the armed mode will be such as defined for those exceptions It is possible to define the following types of checking the partition armed mode status for each day of week and for exceptions timed the armed mode status will be checked by the specified times arming and disarming will be only possible within the specified intervals if it occurs outside of them it will be reported to the
31. ong key when entering the new code The code consists of 2 to 10 characters each character can be either upper or lower case letter digit or any other character NOTE It should be remembered that the program is case sensitive e Notes this menu makes it possible to make notes that can be addressed to a particular person or a group of persons There is also an option to create notes that will be activated with audible signal at a defined time on selected days of week over a specified time interval e g as an alarm clock Each user of the system can check at any time and more precisely when no dialog boxes are open in the program by pressing the F4 key if the other users of the system have left any notes for him Notes View this function is used for viewing the notes which are present in the system After the function is activated the program will first show the generally accessible notes and then if any notes exist for particular persons it will ask for the password On this basis the program knows who wants to view the notes If there are any notes for that person they will be displayed e Notes Add this function makes it possible to create a note which is then forwarded to persons defined in any way It is also specified who can delete the note when read which will physically erase it from the disk nobody else will be able to read it afterwards It should be stressed that the note intended for a person or group of
32. only when precisely the same code with the same identifier was received within the last minutes the number of the minutes being determined in the Skipping Time otherwise such a code will open the alarm window with audible signaling Skip group code acts as the skip same code only but disregards the codes from the same identifier which belong to the same alarm group within that identifier To which alarm group the code belongs is set in the Decoding item In terms of possible errors made when defining the codes in the Decoding item the skip same code only option is the safest one to be used e Test Tr this option makes it possible to set types and parameters of test transmissions which should be sent by the subscriber s control panel to check its operation Three types of test transmissions are available After time if the control panel sends no codes to the station for a specified time it will send test transmission after that time to report itself if the code does not come the control panel may be damaged On time if this type of test transmission is active the station must receive the Test type code at a specified time every specified number of days Numbers of days equal to 0 1 are equivalent and mean that the program will be expecting a transmission every day 2 every other day 3 every third day etc In time this type of checking test transmissions is not dedicated to the monitoring of received Test t
33. out RS interface e flat cable both side terminated with flat plugs to connect this card to the basic card or another expansion card Preparation of the station for work is not a complicated operation as it only requires some rudimentary knowledge of the hardware and electronic equipment In order to install the station cards in a computer follow the procedure below disconnect the computer from the mains if it is currently connected unscrew and remove the computer case using jumpers set various addresses on the cards to be installed presence of more than one cards with the same address will not cause any damage but will make impossible proper communication between the cards and the computer e insert the monitoring station card s into any of the computer ISA slots and screw the card fixing strip to the computer case SATEL STAM 1 Monitoring Station 3 where the system is to work with a few cards connect the cards with each other by means of flat cables delivered by the supplier with expansion cards the 1 card with the 2 one the 2 with the 3 the 3 with the 4 etc the order of connecting the cards with the card slots being irrelevant replace in position and screw the computer case e connect the basic card with a serial port COM1 COM2 by means of the RS cable delivered by the supplier together with the basic card Having completed the above mentioned operations you can install the softwar
34. pply failure the operator will be able to restart it clearing trouble the operator will be able to clear the troubles which should be cleared by the control panels using a decode archiving data if requested by the program the operator will be able to archive the required portion of data restoring archive data the operator will be able to restore himself the archived data Configuration Cards the function must be performed so that the program can know which cards are installed in the system If there are several cards in the system each of them MUST have a different address set on four jumpers on each card 14 STAM 1 Monitoring Station SATEL separately the jumper closest to the card corner having weight 1 next jumper weight 2 next 4 and the last one 8 Thus you can assign addresses from 0 to 15 to each card by shorting the jumpers as necessary For example the address 5 should be set as follows shorted weight 1 weight 2 RS ports to connect weight 4 cards with each other weight 8 Configuration Print this function available to the supervisor only determines the parallel port to which a printer for the real time event printouts is connected standard of the Polish fonts installed on that printer the same selections are to be made fro the report printer You can also indicate that the station number be printed befor
35. printout it is necessary to determine the time interval from which the events will be printed Also you must specify the type of events to be printed e g only alarms and armed modes and from which subscriber identifiers Prior to the actual printing the user has an option to view on screen the contents of printout e Report Operator the function enables printing report about selected operator s work Such a report contains among other things information on number of events handled by the particular operator the shortest longest and average reaction time the shortest longest and average duration of guard duty shift Prior to the printout it is necessary to set the time interval from which the events will be printed Also the type of events to be printed should be defined e g the alarm handling only Prior to the actual printing the user has an option to view on screen the contents of printout 10 STAM 1 Monitoring Station SATEL e Report System the function enables printing the history of events and system operation statistics For the event history printout you can define the following period of time the events will be printed from type of events to be printed from which subscribers will the event be printed who handled the events that need to be handled etc Prior to the actual printing the user has an option to view on screen the contents of printout e Subscribers Information the function enables brow
36. r down arrow keys and ending with the ENTER or canceling with the ESC key Each window contains subscribers represented in the form of flags the numbers of which correspond to the ordinal numbers of subscribers Depending on the selected window the flags represent various aspects of the subscribers status Alarms the flags in this window have the following meanings no unhandled alarms at the given subscriber E flashing there are unhandled alarms at the given subscriber subscriber is inactive the database contains no subscriber with this number the flags in this window have the following meanings no trouble at the given subscriber m troubles handled received no clearing code from the panel E flashing there are unhandled troubles at the given subscriber O flashing there are unhandled troubles which received clearing code from the panel SATEL STAM 1 Monitoring Station 9 subscriber is inactive the database contains no subscriber with this number e Armed the flags in this window have the following meanings all the subscriber s partitions are disarmed some of the subscriber s partitions are armed and some disarmed a all the subscriber s partitions are armed subscriber s armed mode status is unknown subscriber is inactive the database contains no subscriber with this number If the subscriber has no defined timer controlled part
37. rmation purpose that the Polish characters in the program are coded in the Mazovia standard Operators are the most frequent users of the system as it is them who accept and handle the events received by the station Therefore to keep order the operators are to MAKE SURE to report the beginning of their each shift before it starts menu Operators Shift Start and to report the end of each shift after it ends menu Operators Shift End There can be a few operators on duty in the system at the same time The main task of the program is logging of all the received events and signaling the emergency situation reports to the operator The emergency situations include the following events alarm trouble arming disarming at a wrong time no arming disarming at the specified time e test transmission at a wrong time no required test transmission The above mentioned events as well as all the other ones are written to the history log which is visible in the program as the main window Each event message is composed of the following fields Ln dd mm yyyy hh mm iii cc EventDescription number of date amp subscriber event code verbal flag of event card from time when ID blinking if description of which is still which the the event unhandled event unhandled event came occurred The events which have no line number or ID and code are system events generated by the program e g the Starting Program event S
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39. sing through the general information about the selected subscriber e Subscribers Edit the function enables editing the selected current subscriber Any changes to the current subscribers is ONLY and EXCLUSIVELY possible through this function The editing can only be done by the system supervisor or a person authorized by him The function is performed in the same way as the Subscribers New function Subscribers New the function enables a new subscriber to be added to the database The addition can only be done by the supervisor installer or a person authorized by the supervisor By default the new subscriber has the fields below filled out the supervisor defines what is to be entered by default using the functions Configuration Form and Configuration Supervisor Subscriber Address Telephone Alarm Actions Trouble Actions Additional Info drawing descriptions in Drawings field default descriptions Skip Test Tr The other information on the meaning of particular fields can be found in Section Subscriber Definition Subscribers Delete the function enables the selected subscriber to be deleted from the subscribers database The deletion may only be done by the system supervisor or a person authorized by him This operation physically erases all the files defining the given subscriber but DOES NOT DELETE the drawing files assigned to the subscriber Subscribers Filter using this function mak
40. system operator if the expected arming disarming does not happen until the specified time interval is expired this fact will be also reported to the operator more precisely until one full minute elapses after the set period armed this partition must be in the armed mode throughout the day and the station may only receive the arming codes if the disarming code is received the emergency situation window will be displayed disarmed this partition must be in the disarmed mode throughout the day and the station may only receive the disarming codes if the arming code is received the emergency situation window will be displayed invalid the partition armed mode status on the given day is irrelevant and not checked the arming disarming codes control only the armed mode indicator in that partition of the subscriber 20 STAM 1 Monitoring Station SATEL The above mentioned elements are the only items which describe each subscriber It should be borne in mind that each subscriber is a separate entity definable irrespective of the other subscribers In the most simple configuration only the following fields of a created subscriber should be filled out Priority Type Subscriber e Address Telephone e Alarm Actions Other Actions Trouble Actions Decoding here you should assign an identifier and define codes for it Having entered a new subscriber to the subscribers database it is advisable
41. t side of the screen the program indicates provided this option has been activated by the supervisor that the program is working with the disk or is processing data This is a signal that the program is currently busy and commands will not be accepted until the indicated operation is over The Handling Window is an alarm window that appears always when an emergency situation is detected by the program Such situations are permitted to be handled by the supervisor operators currently on duty and installers with operator s authority Unless the emergency situation was caused by the telephone line trouble voltage decay the window will also contain besides the message the same as in the event list basic information on the subscriber e g e type of emergency flashing title of the window if the event belongs to those related to arming disarming the title will also contain the name of the subscriber s timer controlled partition the particular situation refers to e subscriber s name subscriber s first and last name subscriber s facility address subscriber s facility telephone additional information if defined for the particular subscriber the following buttons that can be used to handle such a situation Handle pressing this button will open the window showing what should be done in such a situation When using this window select the operation to be done carry it out and confirm by pressing the Perform
42. the first batch of data from the subscriber s panel which has called it w2 the card is waiting for the second batch of data Using the mouse you can move the pointer to the field corresponding to the selected card and by double clicking the left mouse button call the dialog box The box will enable a command to be given to the card to hang up This option can be helpful when the alarm control panel for whatsoever reason is continuously transmitting messages to the station thus keeping the line busy Disengagement of the line will allow other subscribers control panels to report to the station If the card has not been off hook this command will have no effect When in the Event List you can use the following keys arrow or down PageUp PageDown to move through the event list HOME moves you back to the first event logged by the station e END pressing this key will scroll the Event List screen contents down to the end i e to the normal working position of the system because all the new incoming events are shown immediately e ENTER opening of the highlighted event if the event is unhandled it will call up the handling window of the emergency situation described by that event otherwise the selection window will appear which offers the following options Information provides more detailed information on the highlighted event Subscriber the Event List will only filter the events which come fro
43. tor uses the mouse to handle the alarms clicking on the Alarms field if any at the lower right corner of the screen Additionally when opening the Alarms window e g with the Ctrl F1 keys the subscriber with the highest priority will be highlighted among those having an alarm and where there are a few of them the one with the oldest alarm will be highlighted The same applies to the troubles and armed modes Subscriber Active this option is used for activating or deactivating the subscriber If the subscriber is deactivated no codes coming from him will cause any alarm 16 STAM 1 Monitoring Station SATEL signals or other signals that require acknowledgement at the station For an inactive subscriber no test transmissions or arming disarming times in his timer controlled partitions are checked or his status is not displayed in the additional Alarms Troubles Armed windows e Type this option enables you to select the subscriber s type normal or PID The normal subscriber is allowed to have more than one identifier and a separate code table for each of them see Decode while the PID subscriber Ademco Point ID can have maximum one identifier Code meanings in the PID type identifier are pre determined it is only possible to define the group names zone names and user names for it see Definitions The code table of the PID identifier can be empty then all the events will be only displayed with the number of zones users
44. turns to the DOS system The program may be exited only and exclusively by the supervisor or a user authorized to do so 6 Subscriber Definition For the system to operate correctly each subscriber must be properly defined It is possible to define the subscriber right after he is added menu Subscribers New or to modify the definition of an existing subscriber menu Subscribers Edit The subscriber definition is composed of the following fields elements e Number this field contains the subscriber s consecutive number This subscriber s number can be modified within the range from 1 up to the total number of all the system subscribers but during editing only when a new subscriber is added the lowest number is automatically assigned to him the first consecutive number of a non occurring subscriber The only meaning of this number is that the subscribers in the Alarms Troubles and Armed windows are sorted by their numbers e Priority this field denotes the subscriber s priority The subscriber s priority is of significance only when the program has to chose among several subscribers having e g alarms which of them is to be reminded first to be handled Out of a group of subscribers to choose from the one with the highest priority will be selected Where some of them have the same highest priority the one whose alarm has been unhandled for the longest time will be picked out The same selection procedure is performed when the opera
45. ype codes but to the monitoring of any codes from subscribers It permits testing communication with the control panel which is not sending any test codes It determines the time in which the SATEL STAM 1 Monitoring Station 19 station has to receive any event message from the subscriber s control panel after receiving the previous event If no code comes from the control panel after the time specified here the station will notify the operator by opening the trouble window with accompanying audible signal The principle of synchronized waiting for any type of test transmission is the same and works so that the program computes based on previous transmissions from the subscriber the consecutive times in which the test transmission should come to it As the waiting time the program adopts the first time to appear in the future with reference to the moment of calculation The time calculations are performed separately for each type of transmission If the waiting time specified for the On time transmission type is e g every 10 days at 11 00 hours the program will wait for the first transmission for the period of 10 days it may come on any of these days but the consecutive transmissions will be expected every 10 next days Only the n time transmission type may be used for EACH alarm control panel The other types of test transmissions may only be used when it is possible for the control panel to send the test transmissions e Times this opti
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