The Advanced MX integration driver is designed to provide an easy integration interface to an Advanced MX fire alarm system .

The driver supports all size installations from a single panel to a multi building-multi panel setup. The driver is licensed on a points basis, a variety of point packs to suit every project are available. An Advanced BMS interface 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 controller that doesn’t have a native RS232 port.

Advanced Fire Alarm Panels support a range of fire detection manufacturers (Apollo, Hochiki, AV, Nittan etc), the type of detection system does not affect the Niagara 4 Driver interface.

The Advanced Fire Panels supports a feature called Sub Addressing where a device can present multiple channels of information.

For example an Dual Input Module has 2x channels, these will be presented as Sub Channel 0 and Sub Channel 1. Normal detections devices such as smoke detectors and manual call points will report on Sub Channel 0. Each Sub Channel that is added to the the System will consume 1x Point license (both Advanced MX 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 to the Advanced BMS Interface node. This message is then reported to the Niagara 4 AMX Driver and the associated fire alarm ‘point(s)’ will be updated to reflect the active state of the system.