Use Alarm Manager to view alarms easily and effectively. The alarms are categorized by source, priority, time of occurrence to track all alarms for the entire platform. The alarm manager is not limited to showing alarms on common dashboard, it is also used as an in-built notification mechanism for alarms to be delivered through SMS and email. The effective notification feature helps track who, and when, the alarm was delivered through the platform. Configurations are flexible, by subscribing to the necessary notifications to be received.
The Alarm Manager is built and designed to take alarms from various sources and report using a common UI dashboard, and facilitates integration of alarms from multiple domains. Alarm Manager helps define which alarms shifts receive where, based on their shift timings, they would receive the requisite configured alarm. There is also an inbuilt escalation mechanism in case the first responders do not respond to the alarms. The alarm analytics covers the following:
- Mean time to respond to an alarm
- Alarm analytics by zones or space
- Rating index of building specifically based on type of alarms or vertical most occurring actionable alarms
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Alarm analytics has the following six alarm types:
- Stale alarms
- Stale alarms go into alarm and do not return to the normal state before a defined time.
- Fleeting alarms
- Fleeting alarms turn on and off very quickly, but do not necessarily repeat.
- Chattering alarms
- Chattering alarms go in and out of alarm repeatedly in a short period of time. The frequency of state transition and time can be user defined.
- Frequent alarms
- Frequent alarms go into alarm most often over a given period of time.
- Flood alarms
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Flood alarms occur for a space when the alarm count exceeds the predefined set limit in a specified duration. For example, if Alarm Manager detects 10 alarms in 30 minutes for a space.
- General alarms
- General alarms are alarms not classified in any of the previous categories.