Panic buttons at 270 stalls: the stall number in the guard room and on patrol

01 / Investment context

What problem had to be solved?

The wholesale market occupies a two-storey building with several hundred sales units. Security works around the clock; during opening hours it staffs the guard room and runs a two-person patrol through the building.

Each of the 270 stalls is to have a button whose signal reaches both the guard room and the patrol — with the stall number, because among hundreds of similar units there is no time to search for where the alarm came from.

The investor also required a log covering the type of event, the stall number, the time of the event and the time the guard room acknowledged it, and every alarm was also to be sent by text message to a designated phone number. With hundreds of buttons on two storeys, the signal delivery time and the load on the radio band also mattered.

The investor’s goal: The stall number with security — in the guard room and with the patrol on its rounds — with a record of every event and its acknowledgement, and a text message for every alarm.

What was designed?

The ground-floor guard room was fitted with an identification receiver (IDO-1000) and the Tablica Synoptyczna software on a computer — today also available as a set with a touch-screen computer (SPA-1000/T). After range tests one repeater (RTS-1000) was installed on each storey, and every button was programmed to the nearest one only. This assignment by area means a signal never passes through two repeaters: it arrives faster and puts less load on the band.

The repeaters pass the signals from the stalls to the guard room and to the patrol’s pagers, which is why even the smallest buttons could be used at the stalls. Each stall chose its own: a key-fob remote with a flap (PUK-151), a three-button remote control (PUK-303), a sealed button (PNH-201), a wristwatch transmitter (PUK-121) or a PNP-121 panic button, whose equivalent today is the under-counter button (PNP-202). The patrol’s pagers showed the storey and the stall number; today this role is filled by the OBI-4SH pager.

A field with the stall’s description and location flashes on the Tablica screen and the computer sounds an alert; the software also sends a text message with the time of the event and the stall’s description to a designated number — through a GSM add-on (today GSU-SP1000/L). Pressing the flashing field stops the sound and records the acknowledgement, so the log holds all the data the investor required.

05 / Before installation

What needs to be settled for a similar investment?

Before devices are chosen, what matters is the site’s conditions and how the system ties into the final installation.

Source: an archived GORKE description of the installation. For a new investment we choose current models.