Introduction
AdvanceGuard® provides clear information to the operator when alarms are triggered. The precise nature of an alarm condition is determined by the rules that have been applied to each area.
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Providing you have been granted permission to arm an area, there are two ways to arm or disarm an area.
Using the Selection Menu
The Selection Menu is accessed by a Long Left Click on the PPI. on the area you wish to arm or disarm:
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The The Selection Menu will open on the PPI Map. Using the curser, you can select the option to disarm the area if it is armed or vice versa.
Using the Area Mini Control
Select the desired area from the Configuration Tree; the selected Area Mini Control will open:
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It will display it’s status. In the above example it is Disarmed, so the following process will arm the area. Click the Disarmed button:
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This will open the Set Timeout options, allowing you to arm the Rules which govern that area, with immediate effect until it is manually disarmed, or for a selected timeframe which you can pick from the list. Once you have chosen the timeout, the area will have an Armed status, and an Entity Alarmed notification will be displayed for approximately 10 seconds:
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Now the area is Armed.
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To disarm the area, you will need to follow the same steps as before, but this time you will need to click the Armed status instead. The Arm / Disarm button is only available on Alarm and General areas. |
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🔴🔊: The severity of the alarm will be represented through a colour-coded circular icon. The colour of the alarm indicates the severity where red is Threat and orange is Warning. A speaker icon determines whether the alarm is audible.
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Responding to Live Alarms
When an alarm is listed in the Live Alarm panel, you can locate the alarm by clicking the Locate icon and it will flash an expanding red circle around the origin of the alarm, as in the example below:
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If a Rule has been configured to follow a target, this will also instruct the nearest camera to automatically track so that the cause of the alarm can be analysed.
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Alert Overview icons are optional, and will display the number of Live Alarms and System Alarms:
Clearing Alarms
If you want to clear an alarm:
Click the Clear Alarm button. This will open the Clear Alarm panel.
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In order for the alarm to not be immediately raised again if the incident is still in progress, the option will also suppress the alarm for the amount of time specified. Select the duration from the drop down list:
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Then click OK.
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The Clear Alarm option must be used with caution. It is not like a Clear in a traditional alarm management system. An alarm incident will be active for as along as the radar can detect the conditions required to trigger it. This can range from minutes to hours. For this reason the Clear Alarm will also suppresswhich means it will prevent any further alarms of the type being cleared to be raised for the specified time. |
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Depending upon the configuration of the installation, it may be necessary for an operator to acknowledge alarms as they occur.
Open the Pending Acknowledge Alarms section:
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This will open the Alarm Acknowledge Details window:
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Select a category for the alarm, e.g. Intruder.
Enter notes about the alarm.
Once you select OK the alarm is acknowledged and these details will saved against the alarm record.
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Alarm categories are definable, so each site may use different options. |
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If a system alarm entry is not automatically cleared, you can manually clear an entry:
Click on the red circle to the left of an alarm entry,
Click OK in the resulting popup to confirm the action. Once cleared, an alarm for the same problem will only occur if the fault is resolved and is then freshly detected.
For more information about alarms please visit the AdvanceGuard® Alarm Panel page.
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Querying
To make an alarm query:
Select the Time Period required. The default time period will be 24 hours, but a period of 48 or 72 hours can be selected.
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The results are automatically calculated and will be presented in the four graphs below; a Rules bar graph, an Area bar graph, an Alarms by Time line graph and System Alarms line graph. In the example above, the alarm query is showing the last 24 hours.
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