SFCD: Federal Commander Digital System - Federal Signal

Federal Commander Digital System
the nature of the alarm. The CCU will then acknowledge the receipt of the alarm back to the RTU
that sent the alarm. If no acknowledge is received, the RTU will retry up to ten times. An alarm is
defined as any RTU originated transmission.
Certain kinds of alarms can cause the SFCDWARE System to call-out an alarm condition to key
support persons on the Call List (optional). The Call List is used in order of priority number, with
zero (0) being the first priority number. If the first person on the Call List is not available, the CCU
will try Calling the person on the Call List with the next higher priority number. The CCU will
continue to call people on the call list, at five (5) minute intervals, until somebody acknowledges
the outstanding alarm. When the Codespear option is purchased, alarms can be received via,
email, phone, pager, SMS, and screen pop-ups.
The CCU is capable of activating RTUs individually, in zones or all sites at once (all call). When
integrated with the EMTools software option, RTUs can be selected graphically on a geo-coded
map display.
Data Files
All of the configuration data entered by the user plus all of the data received from the RTUs is
saved in the following data files:
ALARMLOGmm_yy.DAT (mm = month, yy = year).
Monthly alarmlog file. Contains System Log information for the indicated month and year.
A new monthly alarmlog file is created each month. Monthly alarmlog files are accessed
by the system log report generator.
ALARMLOG.DAT:
BASE.DAT:
Contains the most current system log entries up to a maximum of 1000 records. The
data displayed on the System Log screen is saved in the alarmlog.dat file. Voice call-out
uses the alarmlog.dat file for the annunciation of outstanding alarms.
Contains the configuration data for the CCU itself and any other data that applies to the
SFCDWARE System in general.
CALLLIST.DAT:
Contains the names, phone numbers, passwords and priority assignments for those
people on the emergency call list.
COMLOG.DAT:
RTU.DAT:
Contains all of the data transmitted through the serial RS-232 data port, for both incoming
and outgoing data. This data is only for debugging purposes and is not required for
operation.
Contains the configuration and status data for all RTUs. This data is sent to each RTU
during RTU configuration and is updated after each poll response.
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Theory of Operation