Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP

Tyco Fire & Security Gmbh

Kim Bouchard

Liem-Binh Tran

Eric Caron

Meagen Wyganowski

Example aspects include techniques for managing alarm initiating devices. These techniques may include receiving, at a control panel, a first signal indicating that an alarm initiating device has entered a test mode in response to activation of a test switch of the alarm initiating device. In addition, the techniques may include updating, at the control panel, device information to indicate that the alarm initiating device has entered a test mode and receiving, at the control panel, a second signal indicating detection of a hazard indication at the alarm initiating device. Further, the techniques may include preventing an alarm alert process of the control panel associated with the hazard indication based upon on the device information indicating that the alarm initiating device has entered the test mode.

Control panel managed testing of alarm initiating devices

A computer device for communicating an emergency notification receives an alarm notification from a detection device. The alarm notification corresponding to an alarm condition sensed by the detection device within a space. The computer device detects an alarm condition location of the alarm condition based on a detection device location of the detection device. The computer device determines an exit location of an exit to avoid the alarm condition that triggered the alarm notification. The computer device determines an egress path within the space to avoid the alarm condition based on the exit location and the alarm condition location. The computer device transmits a plurality of commands to a plurality of notification devices within the space to trigger output of an egress notification in a coordinated pattern to identify the egress path. The plurality of commands trigger audible outputs by the plurality of notification devices.

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Kim Bouchard