14

ANALOGUE ADDRESSABLE FIRE ALARM

14.1 Analogue Addressable Fire Alarm System and Voice Evacuation

System
14.1.1 General
The contractor shall supply and install a complete fire alarm system as
described herein and as shown on the plans to be wired, connected and left in
good operating condition. The system shall include Analogue Addressable main
control panel and voice command centre, Repeater panel, Addressable smoke
sensors, heat sensors, line powered isolators, alarm indicating appliances,
wiring, termination, electrical boxes, and all other necessary material for a
complete operating system.
An online printer must be provided to print out all Alarm and trouble events.
Each and all items of the fire alarm system including the amplifiers and
loudspeakers shall be listed as products of a SINGLE fire alarm system
manufacturing under the appropriate category by Underwriters Laboratories lc
(UL) and shall bear the UL label. All control equipment is to be listed under UL
category UOJZ as a single control unit. Partial listing shall not be acceptable. All
control equipment must have transient protection devices to comply with UL864
requirements.
The complete installation shall confirm to the applicable sections of NFPA-72.
NFPA-71 and Electrical codes.
The fire alarm system shall allow for loading and editing instructions and
operating sequences as necessary. The system shall be capable of storing, and
downloading while the system is in operation, a second set of operating software
resident in the control panels as backup in case primary operating software is
corrupted. In addition, the system shall be capable of on-site programming to
accommodate system expansion and facilitate changes in operation. All
software operation shall be stored in a non-volatile programmable memory
within the fire alarm control unit. Loss of primary and secondary power shall not
erase the instructions stored in memory.
Full flexibility for selective input/output control functions based on ANDing,
ORing, NOTing timing and special coded operations shall also be incorporated
in the resident software programming of the system.
Resident software shall allow for full configuration of initiating circuits so that
additional hardware shall not be necessary to accommodate changes in, for
instance, sensing of normally open contact devices to sensing of normally
closed contact devices or from sensing of normally open contact devices to
sensing a combination of current limited and non current limited devices on the
same circuit.
The system shall have the capability of recalling alarms and trouble conditions in
chronological order for the purpose of creating an event history of 600 events.
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The system shall incorporate single channel two-way voice communication and
tone generating capabilities.
The control panel voice command center shall be equipped with master
telephone for two way voice combination with remote phones. Fire fighter's
phone jacks shall be provided at remote locations as shown in the drawings. 4
nos pluggable phone shall be provided in the voice command center. The phone
shall be ruggedly constructed of a thermal ABS material like Red Cycolac, type
T. A five foot coiled line cord and jack shall be attached to each phone.
Alarm indicating application shall operate selectively by building / floors as called
for in the sequence of operation. Any subsequent zone alarm after silencing of
initial condition shall reactivate all the alarm indicating application.
The activation of any system smoke detector shall initiate an alarm verification
operation whereby the panel will reset the activated detector and wait for a
second alarm activation. If within one minute after resetting, a second alarm is
reported from the same or any other smoke detector, the system shall process
the alarm as described in the sequence of operation. If no second alarm occurs
within one minute the system shall resume normal operation. The Alarm
verification shall operate only on smoke detector alarms. Other activated
initiating devices shall be processed immediately. The Alarm verification
operation shall be selectable by zone.
A manual evacuation switch shall be provided to operate the alarm indicating
appliances without causing other control circuits to be activated. However,
should a true alarm occur, all alarm functions shall be in service conditions
including the time of each occurrence.
The system shall have a single key that will allow the operator to display all
alarm, troubles, and supervisory service conditions including the time of each
occurrence.
The system shall have provisions for disabling and enabling all circuits
individually for maintenance or testing purposes.
The system batteries shall be supervised for disabling and enabling all circuits
individually for maintenance or testing purposes.
The panels shall be capable of networking upto 99 more nodes as nodes as and
when required without modification of hardware except adding network cards.
Detectors shall be provided in floor voids as required as per standards.
Wherever the ceiling void exceed 825mm detector with remote indicator shall be
provided without variation.
In open areas isolators shall be provided for every 20 detectors or detectors in
each fire zone.

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14.2

Sequence of Operation
Upon actuation of any manual station, or automatic detector or sprinkler flow
switch, or air conditioning and ventilation duct return and exhaust air smoke
detector. The system is to operate as follows:
On the Main Panel, the local panels and the annunciator (repeater) panels the
green normal LED is to extinguish and the red alarm LED is to light. An audible
signal is to sound. Visually indicate on the LCD control panel label of the
addressable device or circuit of alarm initiation. The first line is to display the
user specified message indicating the floor and zone that initiated. The first line
is to display the user specification message indicating the floor and zone that
initiated the alarm. The second line of the LCD is to indicating real time, number
of messages waiting, type of alarm, zone of alarm and time the alarm occurred.
Red LED corresponding to the zone in alarm in the main panel shall also be lit.
The alarm indictors on the MFAC and repeater panel to continue to flash until
the alarm is acknowledged. If a subsequent alarm is received after
acknowledgment, the alarm is to sound again. The operator is to acknowledge
the alarm by pressing a dedicated button and the buzzer is to silence provided
that isn't an additional alarms the operator is to acknowledge all pending alarms
before the buzzer is to silence. To silence audible to resound. To reset the
system the device is to be cleared first then the reset button is to be pressed.
Sound evacuation alarm on floor of incidence the floor above and below. The
alarm shall consist a "slow whoop" alarm tone, for ten second followed by thirty
second of an automatic pre-recorded voice evacuation message in Vietnamese
and English. The message is to ask the tenants to evacuate the building. The
message and tone shall repeat continuously (unless manually silenced) until the
alarm initiating device is restored to normal and system reset. The silencing of
an alarm condition is not to prevent the resounding of alarm devices if a
subsequent condition occur. A time delay feature is to be provided to sound a
general evacuation alarm automatically throughout the building if the initiating
alarm condition is not responded to within a predetermined time. Visual
indication at the panels, corresponding to activated voice alarm circuits is to
illuminate.
Sound a 20 pulses per minute alarm tone in the remainder of the building for 15
seconds followed by thirty second pre-recorded alert message in Vietnamese
and English. The message is to draw attention to the possibility of a fire
condition that is being checked out. The message and tone shall repeat
continuously(unless manually silenced ) until the alarm initiating device is
restored to normal and system rest. The silencing of an alarm conditions is not
to prevent the resounding of alarm devices if a subsequent condition occur.
Turn on the flashing strobes for the floor of incidence, the floor above and below.
Automatically shut down all fans serving the areas affected by the alarm

condition.
Automatically start all stairwell pressurization fans.
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Automatically start smoke extraction fan system

Automatically dial the firefighting authorities
Recall all elevators to ground floor. If the alarm originates from the ground floor,
redirect the elevators to the other floors or as designated by the Local Fire
Department. A common pre-recorded message is to be sounded in all seized
elevators. Lifts are then to held for the exclusive use of the fire fighter by use of
a special key.
Transmit signal to radio paging system to display zone of alarm.
Printer is to print text message on the event log indicating the device which
initiated a trouble alarm, time and date associated with alarm. All follow up
information regarding this alarm, such as acknowledge, reset and the like is to
be printed afterwards.
All emergency stair and exit doors will release.

14.3

Voice Communication (if applicable)

A central single channel digital audio control module shall be provided for the
necessary alarm message / tone generation main and remote microphone
connections and mixer / pre-amplifier circuits. Continuous supervision shall be
provided along with specific information as to the type of failure should a
problem occur (e.g. Main microphone trouble, tone trouble, etc.) Audio outputs
shall have individual gain control.
A hand-held push-to-talk microphone shall be provided in the Voice Command
Center, recessed within a protective panel-mounted enclosure. The microphone
shall be a noise-canceling communication type with a frequencing range of 200
Hz and shall be equipped with self-winding five foot coiled cable. An LED
indicator shall be provided for the circuits ready for transmission. The
microphone shall be supervised for disconnection.
An audio control switch- module shall be furnished to provide manual access to
audio operations for authorized personnel. The module shall include an "ALL
CIRCUITS" switch, "Aux Tone 1" which, "Aux Tone 2 switch, tone generator stop
switch, "Audio Trouble Reset" switch. These switches and associated LED
indicators shall be supervised for disarrangement or failure.
Audio power amplifiers shall be furnished with a self contained filtered 24VDC
power supply, transformer, and amplifier monitor circuits. The amplifiers shall
provide a 70 Volt RMS output with a frequency response of 120 to 12,000 Hz.
Provide sufficient amplification to operate all system speakers simultaneously
plus ten (10) percent spare capacity.
The speaker circuits shall be capable of supplying 70Volt RMS. audio power
from the system amplifiers. Supervision for open, short, or ground fault
conditions shall be provided. Individual and distinct trouble indications shall be
provide for each fault. Provide one circuit for each zone or area of distinct
communication.

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Digital tones for alarm (show whoop) and auxiliary requirements (wail, horn,
chime, etc.) shall be provided.
A pre-recorded digitized voice message capability is to be provided for automatic
transmission to building occupants during alarm conditions. The automatic
message player shall not rely on a tape or other mechanical means of
transmitting the evacuation message. A standard evacuation message shall be
provided under this contract, however, the message player must be capable of
transmitting a custom message of up to five (5) minutes long. A self-contained
speaker will provide testing of the message (s) without disturbing the occupants
of the facility.
The system shall be configured to allow selective voice paging. Upon activation
of any speaker manual control switch, two attention getting beeps shall sound
over the speakers indicating an impending voice message will occur.
If any speaker manual control switcher are activated, the control panel operator
shall be able to make announcements via the push-to-talk paging microphone
over the pre-selected speakers.
Facility for total building evacuation and paging shall be provided to allow for
activation of all speakers. This shall be accomplished by the means of an" All
Circuit" switch.

14.4 Power Requirements

The system shall be provided with sufficient battery capacity to operate the
entire system upon loss of normal 230V AC power in a normal supervisory mode
for a period of 24 hours with 30 minutes of alarm operation at the end of this
period. The system shall automatically transfer to the standby batteries upon
power failure. All battery charging and recharging operations shall be automatic.
Contractor shall submit standby and alarm power calculations in support of the
selected battery size
All external circuits requiring system operating power shall be 24V DC and shall
be individually fused at the control panel.

14.5

Fire Alarm Control Panel

The control panel shall be Analogue Addressable type of adequate point
capacity with 20% spare and the construction shall be modular with solid state,
microprocessor based electronics. It shall display only those primary controls
and display essential to operation during a fire alarm condition.
A local audible device shall sound during alarm, trouble or supervisory
conditions. The audible device shall sound differently during each condition.
The following primary controls shall be visible through a front access panel:
Eighty character liquid crystal display.
Individual red system alarm LED.
Individual yellow supervisory service LED.

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Silent Walktest With History Logging The system shall be capable of being
tested by one person. While in testing mode the alarm activation of an initiating
device circuit shall be silently logged as an alarm condition in the historical data
file. The panel shall automatically reset itself after logging of the alarm.
LED Supervision
All slave module LED's shall be supervised for burnout or disarrangement.
Should a problem occur the LCD shall display the module and LED location
number to facilitate location of that LED.
System Trouble Reminder
Should a trouble condition be present within the system and audible trouble
signal silenced, the trouble signal shall resound at preprogrammed time intervals
to act as reminder that the fire alarm system is not 100% operational. Both the
time interval and the trouble reminder signal shall be programmable to suit the
owner's application.

14.6

Output
Fire Alarm control panel shall be capable of operating remote printers. It shall be
also possible to have hard wire zones, LED modules to represent the zone in the
Fire panel

14.7

Multiple Addressable Peripheral Network

The system must provide communication with initiating and control devices
individually. All of these devices will be individually annunciated at the control
panel. Annunciation shall include the following conditions for each point.

Alarm

Trouble

Open

Short

Device missing/failed

Automatic environmental compensation.

Variable Sensitivity setting

Day 7 Night mode of operation

Automatic dirty sensor indication

All addressable devices shall have the capability of being disabled or enabled
individually.
Each loop to have a minimum capacity of 250 devices with detector & control
modules in any combination. System that require factory reprogramming to add
or delete devices are unacceptable. Each loop to have 25% spares available.
Vendor to increase the no. of loops if required.
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Each addressable device must be uniquely identified by an address code

interred on each device at time of installation. The use of jumpers to set address
will not be acceptable due to the potential of vibration and poor contact. The
system must verify that proper type device is in place and matches the desired
software configuration.

14.8

Printer
Printer shall receive English language text from the fire alarm control panel in an
industry standard ASCll format via an EIA RS-232-C connection. All printed
information shall include time and date. Printer shall be quiet in operation, with
automatic paper take.

14.9

Addressable Device Types

14.9.1 General
The system control panel must be capable of communicating with the types of
addressable devices specified below. Addressable Devices will be located as
shown on the drawings. The system shall identify when a smoke sensor
becomes too dirty to operate properly. It shall also identify sensors which are
almost dirty which need cleaning before they drift beyond their selected
sensitivity. In short, a review of the front panel display or the printed status report
quickly identify sensor that need cleaning.
Sensitivity of the sensor shall a programmable, photoelectric shall be variable
from 0.2 to 37 percent and ionisation sensitivity from 0.5 to 1.7 percent. It shall
also be possible to programme for timed, automatic sensitivity selection such as
less sensitive during working hours and more sensitive when quite.
The panel shall provide the following features:
Individual sensitivity selection for each sensor
Peak value logging allowing accurate analysis for sensitivity selection
Automatic, once per minute individual; sensor calibration check to verify
sensor integrity
Display of sensitivity directly in per cent per foot
Multi-stage alarm operation
Ability to display and print detailed sensor information
Addressable Sensor Bases
The addressable sensor bases shall contain integral addressable electronics
that constantly monitor the status of the detachable photoelectric, ionization or
heat sensors. Each sensors output shall be digitized and transmitted to the
control panel every four seconds.
It shall be possible to use different sensor types with the same base. The base
shall have integral LED for power-on (pulsing), or alarm or trouble (steady on).
The bases shall be available with connections for remote LED alarm indicator or
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connections for supervised remote replay. The sensor bases shall be size not
more than 125mm diameter.
Address of the device shall be set in the base using dip switches so that removal
or replacement of the sensor head will not affect the operation of the system.
Device addressed through software or address set in the sensor head are not
acceptable. Soft addressable sensors are also will be acceptable subject to
compliance with other requirements of the specifications.
14.9.2 Addressable Sensors
The addressable sensor shall plug in unit which mounts to a twist lock base
14.9.3 Heat Sensor
The heat sensor shall be self restoring and provide a combination of rate and
fixed temperature rate compensated sensing. It shall have low termal mass to
accurately and quickly measure the local temperature at the fire alarm panel.
It shall be possible to select the rate of rise temperature detection for either 15
oF or 20 oF per minute. Fixed temperature sensing and shall be programmable
to operate at 135 OF or 155 oF. It shall be possible to programme these sensors
as a utility device to monitor for temperature extremes in the range from 32 oF to
120o

14.10 Photo electric sensor

Photoelectric sensor shall use a stable, pulsed infra red LED light source and a
silicon photodiode receiver to provide consistent and accurate low power smoke
sensing. Seven levels of sensitivity shall be available for each individual sensor,
ranging from 0.2% to 3.7% per foot of smoke obscuration. It shall be possible to
select and monitor the sensitivity at the control panel.
The head be designed to allow 360 deg. Smoke entry for optimum response to
smoke from any direction. A built-in screen shall keep insects from entering the
smoke chamber.
Sounders shall be provided in the base as required and shown on drawings.

14.11 Addressable Pull Station

operation and remain so until manually reset by opening with a key common to
all system locks. Pull stations shall be double action type requiring smashing
glass and pulling a lever to initiate an alarm.
The device shall integral electronics for constantly monitoring the status of the
device and communicating the same to the control panel. Address of the device
shall be set by dip switches in the associated electronics.

14.12 Control Modules

Control modules shall be provided as shown in the drawings to supervise and
operate notification appliances, speakers and telephone circuits. Output capacity
shall be up to 24V DC. All control modules shall be powered from the panel via 2
core cables. Local powering of control modules shall not be acceptable.
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14.13 Monitor Modules

Supervised individually Addressable Modules shall be installed in the
addressable network for monitoring the status of lifts, etc.
These devices shall provide specific addressability to a single initiating device or
multiple devices by monitoring normally open dry contacts shall cause an alarm.
An open in the initiating circuit winng shall causes a trouble to be reported at the
panel.

14.14 Line Powered Isolators

Line powered short circuit isolators shall be installed in the detection loop for
every addressable devices or as indicated in general notes on drawings.

14.15 Addressable Device Supervision

All devices shall be supervised or trouble conditions. The system control panel
will be capable of displaying the type of trouble condition (open, short, device
missing, failed).
Should a device fail it will not hinder the operation of other system devices.

14.16 Fire Fighter's Phone Jack

Remote phone jack station shall be recessed to the wall on a single gang box for
use with portable phones. Face plate shall be engraved "Fire Emergency
Phone" The unit shall have a call LED indicator. 4 set of fire telephone also
should be provided for use.

14.17 Notification Appliances

Notification appliances shall include visible, audible or Audible / visible as shown
in the drawing. Audible appliance shall be loudspeaker or dc vibrating bells and
the visible appliance shall be strobes.

14.18 Strobes With Speaker (Single Unit)

Strobes shall be suitable for wall or ceiling mounting as shown in the drawings.
Xenon flash tubes shall be 24VDC powered from the panel. Visible output shall
be 30 candela. The reflective design shall provide light output in key axis
directions allowing vertical or horizontal mounding.
The unit shall be of red finish with white 'FIRE" lettering. Flash rate shall be 1
Hz. For loudspeaker refer Clause 19.0.

14.19 Loudspeakers
Loudspeakers shall be either wall or ceiling wall or ceiling mounting type to suite
the site conditions. These shall provide high quality tone and voice reproduction.
Round or square models shall be installed, to the approval of the Engineer.
Generally, wall mounted units shall be of square type and round housing shall
be constructed of high impact, flame retardant ABS thermoplastic. All speakers
shall have 70 V line transformer with tappings at W, W, 1W and 2W.
Frequency response shall be 125Hz for general signaling and sensitivity of the
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speakers shall be 85dBA 1W, 10ft. All ceiling mounted speakers shall have 160
dispersion angle with fire dome.

14.20 Audio / Visual Alarm Indicating Appliance

Audio / Visual units shall be provided on a common enclosure for the fire alarm
audible and visual alarm devices. The housing shall be designed to
accommodate either horns, bells, chimes or speakers. The unit shall be
complete with a resistant, pyramidal shaped lexan lens with "Fire" lettering
o

visible from a 180 . Field of view. The front panel or bezel which is constructed
of UL listed Norly, may be inverted so that the lens is below the audible device.
The lamp assembly shall incorporate a built-in reflector for more efficient light
propagation and special shock-mounding arrangement to resist bulb failure due
to vibration.
Lamp shall provide 4 wire connection to insure properly supervised in/out
system connection. Unit shall be complete with all mounting hardware including
back-box. Audiovisual unit shall be UL listed for its intended purpose.

14.21 DC Vibrating Bells

DC vibrating bells shall be installed externally for indicating an alarm condition.
Alarm Bells shall be of red finish, 150 in diameter with a 24V DC heavy vibrating
solenoid action. Sound output shall be 90DB at 1 meter. Mounted hardware shall
be available for surface, flush and weatherproof fixings. The bells shall be
installed in a weatherproof back box. As an alternative multitone electronic
sounders shall also be proposed (with similar specification).

14.22 Graphic Command Centre

A colour graphic command center shall be installed in near the main entrance
witj the approval of the fire department. When a fire alarm status changes,
colour graphics shall display an indication of the type of alarm or other activity
and its location. With proper access code, the operator shall be able to
acknowledge alarm conditions, silence audible alarms and extinguish visible
notification appliances, and perform system reset directly from the colour graphic
screens. GCC shall accommodate upto 4 network card and each network
capable of accomodating upto 99 notes.
The system shall provide history logging upto 400,000 historical events.

14.23 Beam Detector

Inside the warehouse are beam type detectors designed;ed these shall be a 4wire 24V DC devices.
The detectors shall be listed to UL 268 and shall consist of a separate
transmitter and receiver capable of being powered separately or together
The detectors shall operate in either a short range (30' - 100') or long range
(100' - 330') mode.
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The temperature range of the device shall be -22 degrees F to 131 degrees F.
The detectors shall feature a bank of four alignment LEDs on both the receiver
and the transmitter that are used to ensure proper alignment of unit without
special tools.
Beam detectors shall feature automatic gain control which will compensate for
gradual signal deterioration from dirt accumulation on lenses.
The units shall be both ceiling and wall mountable.
The detectors shall have the ability to be tested using calibrated test filters or
magnet activated remote test station.

14.24 Wiring
The system shall be wired using FP200 cable or approved equal. The cable size
2

for the initiating device circuit shall be 1.5mm and 2.5mm for the indicating
device circuit.

14.25 Integration
Fire alarm system shall be integrated with BMS for status monitoring

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