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Honeywell Ademco Intrusion Alarm Systems
System Overview
The Honeywell Ademco product line offers a wide range of intrusion alarm (burglar alarm) panels. These systems are scaled for the protection of the small, medium sized, and large businesses.
There are three panels Protection Plus Security Services utilizes the most; Vista 20P, Vista 50P, and the Vista 128BP.
Honeywell Ademco Vista 20P
The Vista 20P is design for small business applications. This system allows for up to 48 user codes and is expandable from 8 onboard hardwired zones to maximum of 48 detection zones. This system allows for both hardwired and wireless zones. Ademco Vista 50P
Honeywell Ademco Vista 50P
The Vista 50P is designed for medium sized business applications. This system allows for up to 75 user codes, has 9 onboard hardwired zones expandable to 87 zones. These zones can be hardwired, polling loop, or wireless. The system allows for up to 8 separate partitions (areas of control) and allows for system scheduling for automatic arming and disarming as well as holiday schedules.
Honeywell Ademco Vista 128BP
The Vista 128BP is designed for large business applications. This system allows for up to 150 user codes and is expandable to 128 alarm zones. These zones can be hardwired, polling loop, or wireless. The system allows for up to 8 separate partitions (areas of control) and allows for system scheduling for automatic arming and disarming as well as holiday schedules.
Honeywell Ademco 6160 Keypad
The Honeywell Ademco 6160 keypad is a custom alpha diplay keypad. This keypad will display in plain English text the exact location of any alarm and trouble condition. The keypad lists the zone number and English description of the zone. The keypad allows the user to arm (stay and away) the alarm system, disarm the alarm system, bypass zones, set the chime mode, and the test the system. The keypad can also be enabled to activate a panic (duress) alarm and can be programmed with a duress code.
Intrusion Alarm Detectors: Magnetic Contacts
These devices are the first line of defense when protecting your building. All the accessible door and window openings should be contacted. These units are a magnetic contact and when the door or window is opened an alarm is triggered. These units can be recessed mounted or surface mounted. These magnetic contacts are designed for monitoring man doors, rollup doors, windows, roof hatches, safe doors, just about any opening you can think of can be contacted. For high security applications a biased contact switch can be utilized which is very difficult to defeat.
Door contacts are typically programmed as either a perimeter point or an entry exit point. When programmed as a perimeter point anytime the door is opened with the alarm system will immediately activate an alarm condition. When programmed as an entry exit point a delay is provided to allow for entry in or exit out of the door for disarming or arming purposes.
Intrusion Alarm Detectors: Motion Detectors
Choose your motion detector carefully; quality and
reliability do matter. A cheap inexpensive passive infrared detector
has a greater likelihood of creating false alarms than does a more
expensive dual technology detector.
There are two major classes of motion detectors; the passive
infrared detector and the dual technology detector.
The passive infrared looks for a change in heat (infrared) within
the field of the detector. The dual technology detector looks for
motion (microwave) and heat (infrared) both must be present in order
to trigger an alarm condition.
These detectors are designed for a specific
coverage pattern. Make sure the coverage pattern is adequate for the
area you are trying to cover. Installing a 35’ x 30’ unit in a
warehouse is not going to provide much coverage. Installing a
90’x70’ will provide much better coverage. Keep in mind that the
coverage pattern is clear line of site. These units cannot provide
the coverage if they are blocked.
These units are typically programmed as interior followers or
perimeter points. An interior follow will allow for a delay if an
entry exit delay is first present otherwise it goes straight into
alarm. The perimeter detector goes straight into alarm.
Intrusion Alarm Detectors: Glassbreak Detectors
When using glassbreak sensors to protect an occupied building it is very important you select a glassbreak detector proven for this application. Not all detectors are equal. The wrong detector will provide ongoing alarm issues.
Glassbreak detectors are used to provide perimeter protection of a building. They detect an intruder the moment glass is broken. These units are designed to sense the breaking of glass and to trigger an alarm condition. For the majority of applications an acoustic glassbreak sensor is what is recommended. These sensors listen for the high frequency of breaking glass and trigger an alarm.
There are two types of units we typically recommend. For quiet spaces we will use an acoustic sensor such as the GE Security / Sentrol 5812AW (ShatterPro II). This unit can be wall or ceiling mounted and provides up to a 25’ radius of detection. This unit can detect through blinds and light drapes.
For louder areas (break rooms, entry doors, etc.) we will use the GE Security / Sentrol 5885 (ShatterPro Plus) unit. This dual technology unit is equipped with the acoustical glassbreak sensor as well as an infrared detector. It is designed and rated for occupied space. This unit works as an acoustical glassbreak detector except when it senses the interior presence (infrared detector) of a person then it shunts the glassbreak sensor thus avoiding any interior generated alarms.
We have successfully deployed thousands of these
units for the Integrated Perimeter Alarm System as I defined it in
Part 1 of this discussion.
The glassbreak detectors are typically programmed as a perimeter
point; anytime these units sense glass breaking they go into alarm.
Honeywell Website:
www.security.honeywell.com/hsc/
Product Information:
Dual Technology Motion Detector
Glassbreak Detector - Dual Tech
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