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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2022
Carrier Corporation, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US);
Jordi Escofet, Barcelona, ES;
Andres Cordoba, Barcelona, ES;
Ramon De La Torre, Barcelona, ES;
Santiago Vilarrubla Canals, Barcelona, ES;
CARRIER CORPORATION, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US);
Abstract
An automatic addressing system for a fire loop and a method for automatically addressing a plurality of remote units electrically connected to a fire panel in a fire loop, the method including: (1) requesting an initial identifier from each remote unit; (2) for each remote unit which responds with a unique initial identifier: (a) assigning a unique address to the remote unit; and (b) silencing the response of the configured remote unit to further identifier requests; (3) for each remote unit which responds with an initial identifier matching the initial identifier of at least one other remote unit: (a) initialising an identifier array with the initial identifier for the remote unit in question; (b) requesting a further identifier and adding it to the identifier array for the remote unit; (c) for each remote unit which responds with a unique identifier array: (i) assigning a unique address to the remote unit.