
70 ATS Designers Guide
5 NETWORK SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
Designing the alarm system described in this chapter consists of translating the design
requirements to the number and type of control panels, optionally the expansions used to
build the system. In the most general view, the design requirements for an integrated
system are outlined in Table 4-1. Based on those parameters, assuming full use of the
system address space, the number of control panels can be assessed – see Table 5-1 –
keeping in mind the design limits. They consist mostly of alarm expansion configuration,
that is using the alarm zone address space – see section 4.2 – and passage
configuration – see section 4.4.
Table 5-1 Assessing the number of control panels in a networked system.
Parameter ATS4000/4518 ATS3000
Number of alarm zones Number_of_Control_Panels x 256 Number_of_Control_Panels x 64
Number of areas Number_of_Control_Panels x 16 Number_of_Control_Panels x 8
Number of users 50 do 67000 50 do 11000
Number of manipulators Number_of_Control_Panels x 16 Number_of_Control_Panels x 16
Result–alarm requirements Max. From above Max. From above
Parameter ATS30/40/4518 Comment
Number of unidirectional
passages
Number_of_Control_Panels x 16
Simple unidirectional passages
without additional functions
Number of bi-directional
passages
Number_of_Control_Panels x 48
Bi-directional passages or
advanced functions required see
Table 4-8
Result – AC requirements Max. From above
Total control panels: (Result–alarm requirements) + (Result–alarm requirements)
Depending on the expansions used, the maximum number of zones (unused zone
address space) and doors supported by one control panel will change. In that case, the
method of calculating the number of required control panels needs to be changed.
After finding the number of alarm zones, the appropriate zone and/or passage address
range needs to be assigned to each, keeping in mind the control panel capabilities. After
that the subsystems can be designed, as per paragraph 4.
Table 5-2 Capacity of the system with 64 ATS4000/4518 control panels.
Parameter Value Remarks
Alarm zones 16384
Completely expanded alarm system – 1024
unidirectional doors in the control panel manipulators,
lack of advanced access control functions.
Areas 1024
Users 67000 Identical user databases in each control panel
RAS stations 1024
In certain situations the control panel manipulators can
be doubled.
Unidirectional doors 1024 Control panel manipulators
Bi-directional doors 3072
Completely expanded access control system – 3072
alarm zones
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