System Manager

TM
VSM4

Benefits
• Remote and central monitoring
of multiple device networks
• Receive real-time prioritized
indication of all alarms and faults
in the full graphical context of
your infrastructure
• Commission, test, investigate
and manage all devices on large
and complex networks

Features
• Full VESDA system control
• Alarm response management
• Fault response management
• Maintenance information and
management
• Event analysis & system
optimization
• Comprehensive configuration
and commissioning of all
VESDA devices
The VESDA fire protection system control center • Fully integrated floor plan design
tools
The VESDA System Manager (VSM4) software sets up, monitors and trouble-
shoots VESDA fire systems – all from one convenient location. This single, • Compatible with most drawing
simple, easy-to-use tool is all you need to ensure that your VESDA systems formats
continue to protect lives and assets on one or multiple sites. • Remote management support
Connect a computer running VSM4 to your VESDA system, and you can view • Real-time graphical event
and control your whole system. VSM4 provides a central and integrated platform indicators
for VESDA products. It also provides integrated online setup of ALL devices
connected to VESDA systems. Furthermore, it provides the ability to monitor • Logging of all events
multiple remote sites with full control and programming functionality. • Event log archiving for future
It is a totally integrated solution for any control room. interrogation
• Extensive reporting capabilities
Investigate and respond with a mouse
• Offline & online configuration
From world map to site map to floor plan, you can zoom in on any component in
the VESDA systems that protect your facility. • Multi-language support
VSM4 gives you full control of your VESDA system on-site, or from another city, • Customisable software views
or even from the other side of the world. • User access control

Seize absolute control of your network with VSM4.

 System Manager
TM
VSM4
Multiple networks

HLI

LAN / WAN

Multiple LaserFOCUS

VSM4 is your system’s watchdog VSM4

VSM4 becomes your command station, watching for critical events such as fire
alarms or faults. It prioritizes very early warning alarms and faults and presents
them to you for investigation and action. Why waste the very early warning that a VSM4 provides local or remote
VESDA system gives you by ignoring an event? connection to:

Smoke trending • multiple individual VLF detectors;

Identify where smoke is coming from. Find out how fast it’s growing. Compare the • multiple VESDA networks; and
elevated smoke level on one detector with the status of other nearby detectors all • multiple VESDA devices on each
on the same graph. VESDA network.
Quickly find out precisely when fire alarms or faults happened Compatibility
VSM4 logs all events: alarms, faults, commands, software updates etc., that occur VSM4 can communicate directly with
on the system. You can filter and sort all these items, which allows you to quickly VESDAnet detectors via a High Level
determine the time a specific alarm occurred, or even how frequently a fault occurs. Interface (HLI) and individual VESDA
Use this information to resolve the problem or optimize the system. LaserFOCUS (VLF) detectors.
Computer requirements
VSM4 speaks many languages
VSM4 allows you to operate the system in your local language and send files OS Windows 2000 or XP (Professional)
to someone else, who can then view them in VSM4 in a different language. The Processor Pentium. Minimum configuration:
files are automatically translated. You can even have spoken announcements of P4 2.8 GHz 1 MB cache
events,* in your chosen language. Memory 2 GB
Hard Disk 1 by 80 GB system Disk, or 2 by
Powerful configuration capabilities in one tool 80 GB connected to Raid Storage
VSM4 includes all the sophisticated network and device configuration capabilities Display Preferred: Dual Monitor, AGP Card
of the VESDA System Configurator (VSC) software. VSM4 includes all of VSC’s with 256 MB memory
system commissioning and testing functionality. The system also automatically Minimum: Single Monitor, 128 MB
discovers devices on the network. All the configuration management functionality is memory
available and is easily set up from a single point. Network Minimum 10/100 GB

What makes VSM4 powerful is its monitoring capabilities and its visual presentation
of entire sites, buildings and rooms. It’s truly the control center for your VESDA
system.
*Optional feature

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