National Time & Signal FACP Gateway

National Time & Signal FACP Gateway

by sales.aus@protoconvert.com

National Time & Signal FACP to BACnet Gateway (FPC N54B-187) is highly powerful, superior, completely configurable and productive fire panel integration gateway for integrators to effortlessly interface devices to networks in commercial buildings and industrial plants.

FPC N54B-187 Gateway model supports National Time & Signal FACP and BACnet protocols. It is a Bi-directional Converter that can be configured as a Passive Client on National Time & Signal FACP side and a Server/Client on BACnet protocol interface.

When configured as a National Time & Signal FACP passive client, the gateway can read data from your National Time & Signal Fire Alarm Control Panels and publish it as BACnet data. Also, it can write commands sent from the BACnet side to the National Time & Signal Fire Alarm Control Panels.

When configured as a BACnet client, the gateway can read data from your BACnet devices and write it as National Time & Signal FACP type data. Also, it can write commands sent from the National Time & Signal FACP side to the BACnet devices.

The gateway can be configured to behave as a server on BACnet interfaces. This mode is useful when data exchange is required between a National Time & Signal FACP passive client (for eg. SCADA) and a BACnet client
(for eg. a Building Management System).

The gateway can be configured to behave as a client on and BACnet interfaces and passive client on National Time & Signal FACP.

These gateways have benefitted system integrators worldwide with its powerful line of gateways. Additionally, this gateway runs the same protocol conversion software on a productive and cost-efficient platform backed by the experience, engineering expertise and technically proven support that integrators have come to expect from National Time & Signal FACP to BACnet Converter.

Specifications:

  • Power Requirements for this gateway is 9-30 VDC or 24 VAC. Current Draw @ 12VDC about 250 mA.
  • This gateway allows to read and write the data up to 1,000 – 10,000 data points.
  • Physical Dimension of this gateway is 4×1.1×2.7 Inches (H x W x D) and it weighs up to 0.2 Kg.
  • This gateway supports 1 x RS-485 Port, 1 x RS-232 Port and 1 x Ethernet Port.

Scenario

  • On a site you have a Fire Alarm Control Panels that can provide data output on National Time & Signal FACP Serial Protocol.
  • The site has a building management system on BACnet that needs the Alarms Supervisory, Troubles, etc from Fire Alarm Control Panels.
  • Since the Fire Alarm Control Panels provide data output on National Time & Signal FACP Serial Protocol and the building management system understands BACnet, a direct data exchange is not possible.

Solution:

The devices cannot directly communicate with each other as they are not on the same protocol. You need something that will convert data from BACnet to National Time & Signal FACP and vice versa.

ProtoConvert’s National Time & Signal FACP to BACnet Converter will be an excellent solution for this requirement. The gateway reads data from the Fire Alarm Control Panels on National Time & Signal FACP Serial Protocol. It caches this data internally and then provides it on BACnet when requested from the Building Management System.