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Today
IP technology IS the alarm industry. It's simply the best way to
communicate to the central station
AES-IntelliNet
Mesh Technology
How It Works: AES-IntellliNet
wireless mesh network, as illustrated in Figure
1, utilizes the following principles:
- There
is a remote transceiver used to monitor or control a device
such as an alarm panel.
- Each
transceiver relays its data in distances measured in miles,
to the central receiver via radio transmission.
- If
the transceiver is too far to reach the central receiver
directly, it simply hops the data to the next closest
transceiver and that transceiver relays it to the central
receiver or to the next closest transceiver to the central
receiver.
- The
Central Receiver relays the data to alarm automation software
for processing.
- If
data can not be relayed via one route, the mesh network
automatically selects the next best route from a choice
of up to 8 available routes at any given time.
- The
network dynamically and automatically adapts to changes
in the network caused by weather changes, obstruction
changes, the addition or subtraction of other transceivers
in the network, etc. so that it is highly redundant and
reliable.
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Geographically Separated Networks:
Wireless
mesh networks operate very well in areas where there is a relative
density of remote transceivers to form the network. Such as
across a campus, city, region, state or even country. However, there
are some applications which have pockets of remote transceivers
such as 2 separate cities, which may be have great distances (perhaps
hundreds of miles between them) which want to benefit from the wireless
mesh technology. In this case, where it might not be practical
to add a lot of remote transceivers between the cities to bring
the two city-wide networks together, there is Internet technology
to bridge the gap. AES-MultiNet technology, as illustrated
in Figure 2, utilizes the same principles as the single wireless
mesh network with the following additional principles:
- When
the data reaches the edge of the single wireless mesh network,
it is collected at a central concentrator called an IP Link.
- The
IP Link receives the wireless data, converts it to TCP/IP and
relays it over the Internet to the Central Receiver.
- The
Central Receiver relays the data to alarm automation software
for processing.
Wireless
Mesh Benefits: The results are that a wireless mesh network
provides more reliability, more redundancy and faster signal transmission
than any wired or wireless network technology available. Furthermore,
since the monitoring transceivers themselves make up the network
negating the need for radio towers, the network is self enrolling
and managing negating the need for real radio engineering expertise,
and the fact that there are no monthly fees paid to a network operator
to maintain this network, a wireless mesh network offers the lowest
cost of ownership possible.
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