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US 6,829,513 B2Granted
Fire detection system and method for configuring
AssigneeSiemens Building Technologies, Inc.
InventorsFrank Piersanti, Tien Nguyen, Reto Hug
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Abstract
The present invention provides an application which is used to program building systems such as fire safety systems. It is an object of the invention to provide a method for creating one or more configuration files for the control panel of a fire safety system to allow the control panel to more efficiently control the fire safety system. The present provides a method for creating one or more system configurations. The configuration file may be comprised of one or more user created views.
Claims14
A method of creating one or more system configurations comprising:
- creating a physical view representing elements in a system;
- creating a geographic view representing groupings of elements by physical location;
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- creating a functional view by assigning elements in said physical view to logic elements and assigning said groupings of elements in said geographical views to logic elements.
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A fire safety system comprising:
- a control panel having a user interface with a display for controlling a fire safety system;
- said control panel provided with one or more controllers, each controller controlling a device loop operably connected to said control panel, each of said device loops comprised of a plurality of devices for reporting predetermined system events to said control panel,
- a memory provided in said user interface, wherein program logic is implemented in said memory capable of causing said user interface to control said devices using a configuration file stored in said memory, said configuration file comprised of at least one view and data related to at least one view.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.