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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 1985
Filed:
May. 05, 1982
Karla Oberstein, Munich, DE;
Peer Thilo, Munich, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin & Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for increasing the response sensitivity and the interference resistance in an alarm system such as a fire alarm system which cyclically samples a plurality of alarm units in the system for obtaining a series of measured values from each alarm unit, the measured values being utilized to form a quiescent value which is stored in a quiescent value memory. With each sampling cycle a current comparison value is formed from the alarm measured value, the stored quiescent value, and a comparison value from a previous sampling cycle stored in a comparison value memory. The current comparison value is then written in the comparison value memory as the new comparison value. The current comparison value is compared with a rated limiting value, and if the comparison value is greater than or equal to the rated limiting value, a display unit is activated indicating an alarm. If the comparison value is less than the rated limiting value, a new quiescent value is formed from the measured value and the stored quiescent value and written into the quiescent value memory.