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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 1985
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1982
Roy L Harvey, Milton, MA (US);
Kevin J Griffin, Waltham, MA (US);
Aaron A Galvin, Lexington, MA (US);
Louis H Auerbach, Brighton, MA (US);
American District Telegraph Company, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A security system continuously monitoring a plurality of spatially diverse events which are reportable to a central monitoring facility, the system including a controller for sequencing the performance of reporting and monitoring tasks according to the requirements of the events. The system also performs the tasks according to a predetermined priority, in particular, alarm message queuing. In addition, alarm conditions and system operation are verified by specified communication procedures and redundancies. Furthermore, system communications capabilities include keyboard entry and output display and an interrupt facility.