ADEMCO VISTA-120 Installation And Setup Manual page 13

Cross-Zoning Capability
Helps prevent false alarms by preventing a zone
from going into alarm unless its linked zone is also
faulted within five minutes.
Exit Error False Alarm Prevention Feature
•System can tell the difference between a regular
alarm and an alarm caused by leaving an
Entry/Exit door
disarmed, faulted E/E zone(s) will be bypassed
and the system will arm
• Generates an "Exit Error" report by user and by
zone so the Central Station knows it was an exit
alarm and who caused it
Communication Formats
Supports the following formats for the Primary and
Secondary Central Station receivers:
• Ademco Low Speed (Standard or Expanded)
• Sescoa/Radionics
• Ademco Express
• Ademco Expanded High Speed
• Ademco Contact ID
PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network)
Compatibility
The initial release VISTA-120 is suitable for use in
many national telephone systems around the world,
but the latest versions
specifically designed
capabilities to meet
requirements of Norway,
Netherlands, Belgium, and Australia.
open. If not subsequently
of VISTA-120
hardware and software
the PSTN regulation
Sweden, Finland,
Alternative Communications Media Capabilities
• Contact ID messages appear in a special keypad
bus data packet that can be extracted by Long
Range Radio transmitters, CATV modems and
various network interface devices designed to
access them.
• Contact ID
transmitted in ASCII through the printer output
for RS232C interface to host computers and
various network interface devices.
Built-in User's Manual and Descriptor
Review
Contains a built-in Users Manual and Descriptor
Review mode.
• By pressing and holding any of the keypad
function keys for 5 seconds, a brief explanation of
that particular function scrolls across the alpha-
numeric display.
• By pressing and holding the READY key for 5
seconds and then releasing it, all programmed
zone descriptors can be displayed (one at a time).
This serves as a check for installers to be sure all
descriptors are entered properly.
Improved Downloading Speed
Uploads and downloads at 300 baud (predecessor
control rate is 75 baud), making upload/download
have
speed approximately four times faster.
messages can optionally be
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