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Case study safe cost effective complexes with Simplex IP platform upgrade makes for a complete interconnected solution safety network upgrade time savings and future for two Midwest facilities early 2019 a fire protection specifying in the Midwest reached out to Controls about upgrading the fire and life safety networks in two facilities Both facilities had operating on the Simplex 4120 fire network which served its purpose for many years The customer was a major facility enhancement wanted to upgrade to the latest technology to expand capacity increase efficiency and speed while from a centralized management Upgrading to the ES Net fire life safety network proved to be a key in the success of the project study REMOTE CLIENT REMOTE CLIENT REMOTE CLIENT of correctional facilities goal for the first facility was to the 11 building campus a new fiber ring network The facility involved the retrofitting of 13 building campus in which Johnson installed ES Net on an existing network addition to upgrading their network customer wanted to transition to a logic controller platform for perimeter fence locking control and system which minimizes operational if a fire panel were to go down types of projects are especially in correctional facilities due to facility access Inmates must be during installation of certain parts Not only is this disruptive the daily operations and routine of and staff it can also be difficult for officers to maintain control of while keeping them isolated from work areas technicians are on site for or repairs additional staffing also required to ensure the safety inmates officers and technicians must be escorted by guards most of the facilities which takes time to move between rooms installations are taking place speedy solution thanks to management February 2019 Johnson Controls its new UL Listed Simplex ES Net and life safety network along with new Simplex 4100ES fire panels in each Even with the major challenges correctional facility access Johnson completed each installation a ahead of schedule saving two of total project time From start finish the installations took only 12 providing the customer with labor savings and allowing them to return normal prison operations earlier than significant time savings are to the simplicity and ease of Net fire panel installation and network thanks to centralized This feature gives technicians ability to program all panels throughout network using a single panel interface reduces the time required technicians to travel from building to REMOTE CLIENT and individually program each main benefit I see with this new is how easy it is to set up and complete system upgrades the Johnson Controls district sales on the project ability to information to any panel through centralized management platform is a benefit to technicians and facility network ready for future life upgrades new ethernet based network achieves rates up to 100MB per second and support an industry leading 687 nodes on the size of deployment new Simplex network can help to SERVER improve system speed This any future routine downloads and like the addition of new panels and notification devices will much faster compared with other upgrades or programming that would normally take several without ES Net are now completed less than 15 minutes Each correctional now has plenty of capacity for system expansion Further these will cause minimal disruption to operations reliable and highly desirable in setting new system is also self healing If fiber link or connection is broken the can reboot itself and conduct to ensure all nodes on network are operational and speaking each other All inter node ports are and staff can retrieve view reset statistics using the graphics diagnostics tool Network topology statistics and seven days of statistics can also be viewed the diagnostics tool new addressable fire alarm control also support self testing notification If implemented in the future can schedule automated appliance which is far less disruptive coordinated success success of this dual project is largely to the centralized management of the ES Net system and panel Precise coordination the customer specifying engineer Johnson Controls service personnel the very beginning ensured project was well ahead of schedule Controls re used existing fiber infrastructure in one facility in additional cost and time Both installations and panel experienced no technical a total of two weeks installation between both facilities allowed the to significantly reduce their on additional labor to support the of inmates and escorting The district sales engineer customer was so satisfied the project execution and outcome at both facilities said the Simplex Network will ideally be specified all future retrofit upgrades or new projects more information on fire and life safety for corrections facilities and go to www simplex fire com or follow us johnsoncontrols on Twitter