The Gent integration driver is designed to provide an easy integration interface to a Gent fire alarm system. The driver will also work with the equivalent SenTri range of panels. The driver supports all size installations from a single panel to a multi building-multi panel setups. The driver is licensed on a points basis, a variety of point packs to suit every project are available. A Gent panel fitted with an Open Protocol Interface Card (VIGIOC-DOM) is required to allow the Tridium controller to connect to the fire system. The driver supports a direct RS232 connection from a field level controller such as a JACE or Tyrrell IoT Controller. Connections for a Web Supervisor are possible but require an additional IP-RS232 Device Server. The Device Server can also be used to achieve a remote connection from a field level

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The Driver supports the creation of Points for Devices, Zones & Supervisory Inputs. Gent panels support a feature called Sub Addressing where a device can present multiple channels of information. For example an smoke detector will report a Fault on Sub Channel 0 and a Fire on Sub Channel 4, a Manual Call Point will report a Fire on Sub Channel 6. The Gent points are a parent element for all sub channels. Each point will generate a Gent Channel slot as events occur in real time, allowing a specific sub channel to be directly accessed if required. Each Gent Point that is added to the the System will consume 1x Point license (both Gent and Tridium Global Capacity). Whilst the driver is communicating with the fire system it is not a ‘polling based’ driver, the fire system connection is fully event driven. This means that as an event occurs in real time on the fire panel(s) an event message is reported. This message is then reported to the Niagara 4 Gent Driver and the associated fire alarm ‘point(s)’ will be updated to reflect the active state of the system.