Technical Benefits

  • A faster and more reliable way to connect with emergency response teams.

    • OPEN ACCESS TM is a high speed bi-directional gateway:
    • For direct, immediate alarm delivery
    • From alarm monitoring stations to emergency response teams
    • Providing alarm data transmission, between UL/ULC alarm station software, and emergency services E-911 Computer Aided Dispatch systems.
    • Flagging critical building data where Fire Department CAD permits.
    How OPEN ACCESS TM improves upon conventional notification procedures:
    1. Under OPEN ACCESS TM Fire alarms are sent directly and automatically to the fire department under the supervision of the monitoring station operator
    2. The alarm operator receives acknowledgement that the signal has received emergency services response, or OPEN ACCESSTM provides an error message to the operator allowing prompt manual response
    3. Monitoring stations and fire departments see all signals sent and received
    4. To ensure ongoing supervision, the OPEN ACCESS TM alarm remains active at the monitoring station
    5. All network transmissions are recorded and supervised
    OPEN ACCESS TM:
    • does not require new alarm equipment
    • does not affect the monitoring standards of UL, NFPA or FM
    • is an open, low cost, network protocol
    • allowing fire alarms from UL/ULC alarm central stations to go directly to a fire department's CAD dispatch system

    OPEN ACCESS TM applications:

    • commercial buildings
    • high rise apartments
    • high rise, low rise seniors' residences
    • hospitals, and schools
    • city buildings and offices
    • all premises required to be monitored as per local fire and building codes
    OPEN ACCESS TM is a faster and more reliable way to connect with emergency response teams

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    OPEN ACCESS TM is a technology breakthrough which adds value to alarm monitoring services. It can save lives by shaving valuable seconds off the response time to a fire and reduce risk to firefighters. It can lower insurance claims by saving millions of dollars of damage to property!

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