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(Main)Alarm systems - Part 5: Requirements for alarm transmission systems - Section 1: General requirements for systems
Alarm systems - Part 5: Requirements for alarm transmission systems - Section 1: General requirements for systems
Specifies the general requirements for the performance, reliability and security characteristics of alarm transmission systems. Covers the general requirements for connections providing signalling between an alarm system and an alarm receiving centre.
Systèmes d'alarme - Partie 5: Prescriptions pour les systèmes de transmission d'alarme - Section 1: Prescriptions générales pour les systèmes
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Systèmes d'alarme
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d'alarme
Section 1: Prescriptions générales pour les systèmes
Alarm systems
Part 5:
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Section 1: General requirements for systems
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CONTENTS
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FOREWORD 5
Clause
1 Scope 7
2 Normative references 7
3 Definitions 7
4 General considerations 11
5 Requirements 13
6 Test methods 23
FIGURES 28
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ALARM SYSTEMS
Part 5: Requirements for alarm transmission systems
Section 1: General requirements for systems
FOREWORD
The formal decisions or agreements of the IEC on technical matters, prepared by Technical Committees on
1)
which all the National Committees having a special interest therein are represented, express, as nearly as
possible, an international consensus of opinion on the subjects dealt with.
They have the form of recommendations for international use and they are accepted by the National
2)
Committees in that sense.
In order to promote international unification, the IEC expresses the wish that all National Committees
3)
should adopt the text of the IEC recommendation for their national rules in so far as national conditions will
permit. Any divergence between the IEC recommendation and the corresponding national rules should, as
tter.
far as possible, be clearly indicated in the la
This section of the International Standard IEC 839-5 has been prepared by the IEC
Technical Committee No. 79: Alarm systems.
The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
Report on Voting
Report on Voting Two Months' Procedure
Six Months' Rule
79(00)47
79(CO)30 79(CO)37
79(CO)20
Full information on the voting for the approval of this section can be found in the Voting
Reports indicated in the above table.
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ALARM SYSTEMS
Part 5: Requirements for alarm transmission systems
Section 1: General requirements for systems
1 Scope
This section of IEC 839-5 specifies the general requirements for the performance, re-
liability and security characteristics of alarm transmission systems.
It covers the general requirements for connections providing signalling between an alarm
system and an alarm receiving centre.
Additional requirements for specific alarm transmission systems are given in separate
sections as parts of IEC 839-5. This does not preclude the use of any transmission system
not - covered by one of these specific sections, provided that it meets these general
requirements.
This section does not specify the method of display of information and the installation of
equipment.
2 Normative references
The following standard contains provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute
provisions of this section of IEC 839-5. At the time of publication, the edition indicated was
valid. All standards are subject to revision, and parties to agreements based on this
section of IEC 839-5 are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most
recent edition of the standard indicated below. Members of IEC and ISO maintain registers
of currently valid International Standards.
IEC 839-5-2: 1991, Alarm systems - Part 5: Requirements for alarm transmission systems
- Section 2: General requirements for equipment.
3 Definitions
3.1 alarm company: Organisation which provides and/or installs and/or maintains the
alarm system.
3.2 alarm condition: Condition of the alarm system, or part thereof, which results from
the response of the system, or part
thereof, to the presence of a hazard.
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3.3 alarm system: Electrical installation designed to detect and signal the presence of
an abnormal condition and generate an alarm signal indicating the presence of a hazard.
3.4 alarm transmission system: Equipment and network used to transfer information
concerned with the state of one or more alarm systems to one or more alarm receiving
centres.
NOTE - Alarm transmission systems exclude local direct connections, i.e. interconnections between parts
of an alarm system which do not require an interface to transform the alarm system information into a form
suitable for transmission.
rt of an
3.5 anti-tamper function: Function to detect interference with a component pa
alarm system.
3.6 central station: See Alarm receiving centre.
3.7 encryption: Coding, translation or other modification of information whereby the
manner in which the information is modified varies with time in a pseudorandom manner.
3.8 remote centre: Location remote from the supervised premises, in which the
information concerned with the state of one or more alarm systems is collected either for
reporting (i.e. an alarm receiving centre) or for onward transmission (i.e. satellite station or
collector point).
3.8.1 alarm receiving centre (central station): Continuously manned remote centre to
which the information concerned with the state of one or more alarm systems is reported.
3.8.2 monitoring centre: Manned remote centre in which the status of an alarm transmis-
sion system is monitored.
NOTE - A monitoring centre may be a separate centre or part of an alarm receiving centre.
3.8.3 satellite station: Remote centre normally unmanned, but with provisions for
manning in an emergency, in which the information concerned with the state of a number
of alarm systems is collected for onward transmission either direct or via a further satellite
station to an alarm receiving centre.
3.8.4 collector point: Unmanned remote centre, without provision for manning in an
emergency, in which information concerned with the state of a number of alarm systems is
collected for onward transmission either direct or via a satellite station to an alarm
receiving centre.
3.9 scrambling: Coding, translation or other modification of information whereby the
manner in which the information is modified is determined by a random key, but does not
vary with time.
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4 General considerations
4.1 Applicable standards
Where use is made of public networks, the relevant recommendations (CCITT, CCIR, etc)
are applicable. Where appropriate, reference should also be made to the ISO Open
System Interconnection (OSI) layered architecture model.
4.2 System configuration
The logical configuration of an alarm transmission system is as shown in figure 1.
Depending upon the required reliability levels and the operational features of the alarm
receiving centres, various system configurations are possible, for instance:
- configuration with one alarm receiving centre (see figure 2);
- configuration with two alarm receiving centres of which the master is operating and
the slave is idle for back-up (see figure 3).
Other system configurations that meet the requirements of this section are acceptable.
Selection of the type of alarm transmission system used for an alarm system should be
dependent upon the required level of reliability and/or security. Reference should be made
to the separate standards describing the different types of alarm transmission systems.
In order to provide for increased communication reliability, more than one communication
channel may be used between an alarm system and one or more alarm receiving centres.
For the purpose of transmission redundancy, an alarm system may be connected to a
remote centre by more than one form of transmission, e.g. dedicated transmission paths
and digital communicators using the public switched network.
4.3 Transmission characteristics
The transmission of the state of the alarm system shall be:
a) continuous, or
b) periodic and/or
c)
by exception (whenever the state changes).
If transmission is not continuous, the control of transmission belongs to the following:
a) alarm system and/or
b)
alarm receiving centre, or
c) transmission system.
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5 Requirements
The alarm transmission system shall provide communication between one or more alarm
systems and one or more alarm receiving centres.
5.1 Transmission facilities shared with other alarm systems
The alarm transmission system shall be such that adding, changing or removing sub-
scribers does not affect other subscribers' signals.
The communications between an alarm system and an alarm receiving centre shall
continue to meet the requirements of the appropriate class of table 1 in the presence of
any other normal signals carried by the same alarm transmission system.
For systems with automatic monitoring, abnormal signals and conditions which prevent the
correct operation of the alarm transmission system shall result in a fault signal.
The communications between an alarm system and an alarm receiving centre shall
continue to meet the requirements of the appropriate class of table 1 when alarm or fault
signals are generated at a rate equivalent to one such signal per minute from transmitters
representing up to 1 % of the system capacity.
If this rate of transmission is exceeded then the degree of degradation of performance of
the alarm transmission system shall be specified in the system specification. The
degradation shall be gradual (e.g. transmission times shall slowly increase) until a rate
equivalent to one such signal per minute from transmitters representing up to 10 % of the
system capacity is achieved and it shall return to meeting the requirements of this
standard within 5 min of the rate being reduced back to 1 %.
NOTE - Thus a system with 1 000 connected transmitters shall continue to meet the requirements of this
standard if alarms are being generated at a rate of 10/min.
5.2 Transmission facilities shared with non-alarm services
Transmission facilities shared with non-alarm services shall be so arranged that operation
and maintenance of the non-alarm services does not prevent the alarm transmission
system for meeting the requirements of this section.
NOTE - The above applies in the case of a switched network after the connection is established.
5.3 Performance
5.3.1 General
The alarm transmission system shall transmit information concerning the state of the
alarm system to the proper alarm receiving centre.
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5.3.2 Transmission delay
The transmission delay shall not exceed the values specified in table 1 for the appropriate
class. The delay shall be measured from the time that the alarm system changes state
until the new state is reported to the alarm receiving centre, excluding any delay outside
the alarm transmission system. The delays within the alarm system and the alarm
receiving centre are specified in other related documents.
Table 1
Class
DO D1 D2 D3 D4
s
Arithmetic mean of all
- 120 60 20 10
transmissions
Upper 95 percentile for all 240 240 80 30
15
transmissions
Maximum acceptable delay — 480 120
50 20
5.3.3 Monitoring of the interconnection with the alarm system
In the event of failure of the interconnection between the alarm system and the alarm
transmission system, an alarm or fault signal shall be transmitted to the alarm receiving
centre. The time to send the signal. shall meet the values specified cited in table 1 for the
appropriate class.
5.3.4
Monitoring of the alarm transmission system
For systems with automatic monitoring, the period from the time a fault develops in the
alarm transmission system until the fault information is reported to the alarm receiving
centre and/or monitoring centre shall not exceed the value specified in table 2 for the
appropriate class.
Table 2
Class
T1 T2 T3
T4 T5
Maximum period 32 days 25 h
65 min 90 s 20 s
Alarm transmission system faults of a sho rt
duration need not be reported provided the
requirement of 5.3.2 can still be met.
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Alarm transmission system availability
5.3.5
The availability of the alarm transmission system is the percentage of time during which
the system is known to be available to transmit the status of an alarm from any enabled
alarm system connected to it to the predetermined alarm receiving centre(s) without
corruption and within the specified transmission delay and, where appropriate, to transmit
a message (e.g. an acknowledgement) from an alarm receiving centre to an alarm system.
aces to the alarm transmission system exist at either the alarm sys-
Where several interf
tem or at the designated alarm receiving centre, the alarm transmission system shall be
considered to be available in the event of a fault affecting one or more such interfaces
provided:
that at least o
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 3
INTRODUCTION . 5
1 Scope . 6
2 Normative references . 6
3 Terms and definitions . 6
4 Test method . 6
4.1 General . 6
4.2 Sampling and preparation of the test pieces . 6
4.3 Apparatus . 6
4.4 Test conditions . 7
4.5 Procedure . 7
4.6 Expression of results . 8
5 Test report. 8
Bibliography . 10
Figure 1 – Impact test apparatus . 9
Table 1 – Mass of hammer for power cables in fixed installations . 7
Table 2 – Mass of hammer for flexible cables and telecommunication cables . 7
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ELECTRIC AND OPTICAL FIBRE CABLES –
TEST METHODS FOR NON-METALLIC MATERIALS –
Part 506: Mechanical tests –
Impact test at low temperature for insulations and sheaths
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International Standard IEC 60811-506 has been prepared by IEC technical committee 20:
Electric cables.
This Part 506 of IEC 60811 cancels and replaces 8.5 of IEC 60811-1-4:1985, which is
withdrawn. Full details of the replacements are shown in Annex A of IEC 60811-100:2012.
There are no specific technical changes with respect to the previous edition, but see the
Foreword to IEC 60811-100:2012.
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The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting
20/1302/FDIS 20/1351/RVD
Full information on the voting for the approval of this standard can be found in the report on
voting indicated in the above table.
This publication has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
This part of IEC 60811 shall be used in conjunction with IEC 60811-100.
A list of all the parts in the IEC 60811 series, published under the general title Electric and
optical fibre cables – Test methods for non-metallic materials, can be found on the IEC
website.
The committee has decided that the contents of this publication will remain unchanged until
the stability date indicated on the IEC web site under "http://webstore.iec.ch" in the data
related to the specific publication. At this date, the publication will be
• reconfirmed,
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• replaced by a revised edition, or
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INTRODUCTION
The IEC 60811 series specifies the test methods to be used for testing non-metallic materials
of all types of cables. These test methods are intended to be referenced in standards for
cable construction and for cable materials.
NOTE 1 Non-metallic materials are typically used for insulating, sheathing, bedding, filling or taping within cables.
NOTE 2 These test methods are accepted as basic and fundamental and have been developed and used over
many years principally for the materials in all energy cables. They have also been widely accepted and used for
other cables, in particular optical fibre cables, communication and control cables and cables for ships and offshore
applications.
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ELECTRIC AND OPTICAL FIBRE CABLES –
TEST METHODS FOR NON-METALLIC MATERIALS –
Part 506: Mechanical tests –
Impact test at low temperature for insulations and sheaths
1 Scope
This Part 506 of IEC 60811 gives the procedure for performing impact tests at low
temperature on extruded insulations and sheaths.
2 Normative references
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and
are indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any
amendments) applies.
IEC 60811-100:2012, Electric and optical fibre cables – Test methods for non-metallic
materials – Part 100: General
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in IEC 60811-100 apply.
4 Test method
4.1 General
This part of IEC 60811 shall be used in conjunction with IEC 60811-100.
All the tests shall be carried out not less than 16 h after the extrusion or cross-linking of the
insulating or sheathing compounds
Tests shall be carried out at the temperature specified in the relevant cable standard.
This cold impact test is intended for sheathed cables of any type, irrespective of the type of
insulation of the cores, and for the insulation of wires, cables and flat cables without sheath if
required by the relevant cable standard.
The insulation of sheathed cables is not subjected directly to the cold impact test.
4.2 Sampling and preparation of the test pieces
Three pieces of complete cable each having a length at least five times the diameter of the
cable with a minimum of 150 mm, shall be taken. All covering external to the component shall
be removed.
4.3 Apparatus
The apparatus to be used for this test is represented in Figure 1, with explanations.
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The apparatus shall be placed on a pad of sponge rubber about 40 mm thick and held in a
suitable low temperature cabinet before and during the test.
4.4 Test conditions
The test temperature shall be as specified for the type of compound in the relevant cable
standard.
For power cables for fixed installations, the mass of the hammer for testing the samples shall
not be less than the values as given in Table 1.
Table 1 – Mass of hammer for power cables in fixed installations
Overall diameter
Mass of the hammer
mm
g
Above Up to and including
– 4,0 100
4,0 6,0 200
6,0 9,0 300
9,0 12,5 400
12,5 20,0 500
20,0 30,0 750
30,0 50,0 1 000
50,0 75,0 1 250
75,0 – 1 500
For flexible cables and telecommunication cables, the mass of the hammer for testing the
sample shall not be less than the values as shown in Table 2.
Table 2 – Mass of hammer for flexible cables and telecommunication cables
Overall diameter
Mass of the hammer
mm
g
Above Up to and including
Flat cables 100
– 6,0 100
6,0 10,0 200
10,0 15,0 300
15,0 25,0 400
25,0 35,0 500
35,0 – 600
The overall diameter referred to in Table 1 and Table 2 shall be measured on each test piece
by a vernier calliper or a measuring tape.
Flat cables shall be tested with their minor axis perpendicular to the steel base.
4.5 Procedure
The apparatus and the pieces of cable to be tested shall be placed side by side in a suitable
low temperature cabinet and maintained at the specified temperature. The contents of the
refrigerator shall then be allowed to cool for a period not less than 16 h, which includes the
time for the apparatus to cool down. If the apparatus has been pre-cooled, a shorter cooling
period is permissible, but not less than 1 h provided that the test pieces have attained the
prescribed test temperature.
At the end of the prescribed periods, each piece in turn shall be placed in position as shown
in Figure 1, and the hammer shall be allowed to fall from a height of 100 mm.
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