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1.9 WIRELESS SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION
A translator and the wireless devices connected to it, make up, from a certain point of view, an
“independent” wireless system.
If the fire control panel has several translators connected to it, then it would be possible that some
of them will use the same frequency channel.
Every wireless network is assigned a unique system code, which prevents communication
conflicts between different wireless systems in the above condition.
1.10 WIRELESS DEVICES ADDRESSING
Every wireless device has a unique address (number) that is automatically assigned during
configuration of the wireless system.
The wireless protocol uses its own addressing system, separate from the analogue intelligent
protocol of the main control panel. The translator will assign and manage the addressing
automatically.
The address of the translator must be specified and this data inserted directly using the
translator’s built-in display. This address is used only by the main control panel and is indicated
as the ‘starting address’.
Each wireless device will also have its own address in the main control panel. The numbering will
begin with the starting address of the translator. For example, if the starting address is “1”, the
following wireless devices that are added to the system will be given address “2”, “3”, “4”, “5” and
so on. If another starting address is specified, for example “34”, the wireless devices will be
automatically readdressed with “35”, “36”, “37”, “38” and so on.
These addresses are the analogue – intelligent protocol addresses used by the control panel and
wireless protocol addresses remain unchanged.
1.11 LINKING WIRELESS DEVICES
New wireless devices can’t automatically connect to the network, they have to be linked to the
translator (or “initialised in the system”). In order to do that, the translator needs to receive a