
Glossary
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Building Technologies
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Fire Safety
2018-08-29
PMI
The arrangement of operating and display elements on a fire control panel or on a fire terminal. Includes the
LEDs, buttons, the display, and the operation options such as the key switch, fire brigade control and
display (FBA), and the EVAC NL Person Machine Interface.
Pre-alarm
Stage before an alarm for information early on, should an event occur.
Remote transmission
Remote transmission.
Section
Level in detection tree of the fire detection system. The section is assigned to the area. It is used for
combining zones.
Site
Depiction of fire detection installation: The top level in the figure showing the installed system. Combines
hardware tree, detection tree, and control tree.
Technical message
Events (e.g., from third-party systems) evaluated via sensors or contacts which are forwarded to the fire
control panel.
Visibility
Defines which part of a site is visible and can be operated on a station.