Simplex Whitepaper - Taking the Complexity Out of Life Safety Management

White Paper the complexity out life safety management remote activity monitoring and simplifies consult the control unit in person This has made facilities difficult in several ways life safety systems can be challenging for a facilities particularly if you managing more than one building a campus city wide or regional environment Every fire alarm unit in your environment represents a discrete set of alerts and maintenance records and schedules Each may require a different response process when there problem When problems occur you may not be nearby or and there may not be a knowledgeable person on site evaluate the situation and provide the proper response These are compounded by the fact that you likely also other security and building automation systems activity monitoring has been developed to address these by providing greater visibility and control This white explains the problems that remote activity monitoring how it solves them and the benefits you can expect to from remote monitoring limitations of unconnected alarm control units time demands Every time an issue occurs with a fire unit or you seek timely information about a particular safety system you or another authorized person who must physically go to the building in question to answers If you have multiple control units in multiple buildings a broad area that a significant amount of time spent from building to building backup for on site expertise shortages You may not have a life safety system operator on site when a problem arises it something serious or can it wait until a more convenient time may not know immediately Trying to diagnose a problem over phone with an untrained person on site can be frustrating site visits When you away from your facilities a problem occurs you could lack the information need to accurately assess the situation To be safe and you have to make an on site visit only to discover it a minor issue that did not require your immediate attention life has been disrupted and your time wasted for no reason decades fire alarm systems were only able to connect to station monitoring and local fire departments via traditional lines This direct connection enabled a fast response an alarm sounded but provided no non emergency difficulty managing maintenance and service All life systems require regular maintenance and service The fire control units in your environment the harder it is to and manage each system maintenance history This makes more challenging to schedule maintenance efficiently and disruption activity monitoring can eliminate these difficulties giving greater visibility and control and simplifying your life life safety systems grew in sophistication they gained the to capture and record more information from individual and notification devices on the network as well as building wide information such as event logs and and inspection records However to obtain any that information about the life safety system you still had is a remote activity monitoring solution life safety remote activity monitoring solution is an Internet IP based system that accesses information from each control unit and sends it to a secure cloud storage system there the information can be sent to a central monitoring and also made available to one or more users via the through a web browser or mobile device This makes about all the information within the connected control units including alarms troubles maintenance alerts and system logs essentially anytime and anywhere remote activity monitoring works typical remote activity monitoring solution consists of several working in concert A gateway installed in each fire alarm control unit transmits via a Local Area Network LAN or wireless cellular to the cloud A secure managed cloud database collects and hosts the Multi layer access control gives users access to their units whether they are a single unit in a single building multiple units spread across multiple campuses A web based dashboard receives real time events from the via the internet displays it for users and provides the to search historical events and view reports and logs each control unit A mobile app offers users the same capabilities as the via their mobile devices improved visibility and control activity monitoring solutions provide facilities managers a range of benefits that add up to improved visibility and Easily monitor and manage multiple locations With a activity monitoring solution information from all your life safety control units in every building across and multiple locations is always within easy reach gain total visibility and you can grant access to your providers as well Improve service efficiency and quality As you can see happening in each control unit and view logs you plan maintenance to minimize disruption and maximize Remote access also allows remote engineers to data and help on site technicians correct problems Enjoy better safety and emergency response Through the of a mobile app and push notifications a remote activity solution gets critical information to you wherever are enabling a faster more appropriate response Get easy access to information and reports At any time can connect to each fire alarm control unit data via the user interface to see exactly what happening and review logs Save time and improve productivity With detailed always at your fingertips whenever wherever you no longer have to waste time traveling to each building an event occurs or you want to review system logs Gain peace of mind With improved visibility and control you longer have to worry about all the can benefit most from remote monitoring activity monitoring is ideally suited to facilities managers campus or multi campus environments School with multiple buildings can monitor and manage their safety systems at all locations from a single workstation management chains operating multiple hotels in geographic area can coordinate maintenance and service them And commercial real estate management firms respond quickly and effectively to alerts from any of the fire systems in their portfolio more a global leader in both smart building and fire protection Johnson Controls can provide a remote activity solution that can help you better safeguard and property and simplify your life To learn more www johnsoncontrols com fire detection or follow us johnsoncontrols on Twitter