Fiber SenSys

Solution Overview | Fiber SenSys Alarm Processor Units (APUs)

Fiber SenSys Alarm Processing Units (APUs) provide a common mechanism for interfacing with various Fiber SenSys sensors. The APUs offer standard relay outputs with many models offering a TCP/IP interface either as a standard interface or as an option. The standard outputs sent from the APU to VideoXpert, with this integration, include:

ALARM

TYPE

DESCRIPTION

SOURCE

TamperThe

APU

reported a tamper condition.

APU

Communication Lost / Restored
The software has lost/​restored communication with the 

APU

.

APU

Intrusion
An intrusion has been detected on the channel.
Channel
Faults
Loss or significant degradation of returning optical power was detected for the channel.
Channel

Channel alarms are commonly associated with a sensor that is monitoring a specific section a fence. The APU is then the point of aggregation for the channels. The middleware integration software provides the ability to subscribe to and receive events from Fiber SenSys APUs, and inject them into a VideoXpert system. This integration was designed for 300 and 500 series APUs. A VideoXpert rule can then be created to display video from a camera that covers the corresponding channel when an intrusion alarm is received.