SIST EN 50134-5:2021

Alarm systems - Social alarm systems - Part 5: Interconnections and communications

This document specifies the minimum requirements for the performance, reliability and security characteristics of interconnections, alarm transmission systems and communications within a social alarm system.

Alarmanlagen - Personen-Hilferufanlagen - Teil 5: Verbindungen und Kommunikation

Systèmes d'alarme - Systèmes d'alarme sociale - Partie 5: Communication et interconnexion

Le présent document spécifie les exigences minimales en matière de performance, de fiabilité et de sécurité des interconnexions, des systèmes de transmission d'alarme et des communications au sein d'un système d'alarme sociale.

Alarmni sistemi - Socialni alarmni sistemi - 5. del: Povezave in komunikacije

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 21-Jul-2021
• ICS: 13.320 - Alarm and warning systems
• Technical Committee: EAL - Alarm systems
• Current Stage: 6060 - National Implementation/Publication (Adopted Project)
• Start Date: 19-Jul-2021
• Due Date: 23-Sep-2021
• Completion Date: 22-Jul-2021
• Directive: TP067 - Odredba o določitvi standardov, ki so obvezni na področju zasebnega varovanja
• Ref Project: EN 50134-5:2021 - Alarm systems - Social alarm systems - Part 5: Interconnections and communications

Relations

• Replaces: SIST EN 50134-5:2005 - Alarm systems - Social alarm systems -- Part 5: Interconnections and communications
• Effective Date: 01-Sep-2021

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN 50134-5:2021
01-september-2021
Nadomešča:
SIST EN 50134-5:2005
Alarmni sistemi - Socialni alarmni sistemi - 5. del: Povezave in komunikacije
Alarm systems - Social alarm systems - Part 5: Interconnections and communications
Alarmanlagen - Personen-Hilferufanlagen - Teil 5: Verbindungen und Kommunikation
Systèmes d'alarme - Systèmes d'alarme sociale - Partie 5: Communication et
interconnexion
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 50134-5:2021
ICS:
13.320 Alarmni in opozorilni sistemi Alarm and warning systems
SIST EN 50134-5:2021 en,fr
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 50134-5

NORME EUROPÉENNE

EUROPÄISCHE NORM
July 2021
ICS 13.320 Supersedes EN 50134-5:2004 and all of its amendments
and corrigenda (if any)
English Version
Alarm systems - Social alarm systems - Part 5: Interconnections
and communications
Systèmes d'alarme - Systèmes d'alarme sociale - Partie 5: Alarmanlagen - Personen-Hilferufanlagen - Teil 5:
Communication et interconnexion Verbindungen und Kommunikation
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2021-06-07. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC
Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.
Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC
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Turkey and the United Kingdom.


European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Rue de la Science 23, B-1040 Brussels
© 2021 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
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Contents Page
European foreword . 4
Introduction . 6
1 Scope . 7
2 Normative references . 7
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviations . 8
3.1 Terms and definitions . 8
3.2 Abbreviations . 10
4 Interconnections . 10
4.1 General requirements . 10
4.2 Wireless . 11
4.3 Availability . 11
4.4 Monitoring . 11
4.5 Security . 11
4.6 Transmission time . 12
4.7 Video and other applications . 12
4.8 Two-way speech communication . 12
5 Communications . 12
5.1 Commentary . 12
5.2 General requirements . 12
5.3 Alarm transmission equipment . 13
5.3.1 General . 13
5.3.2 Transmission links shared with other applications . 14
5.3.3 Monitoring of the interconnection with the AE . 15
5.4 Technical performance requirements of the alarm transmission system . 15
5.4.1 General . 15
5.4.2 Sessional-connected or switched paths . 15
5.4.3 Packet switched networks . 16
5.5 The controller . 17
5.5.1 Environmental requirements . 17
5.5.2 Access levels. 17
5.5.3 Sessional-connected or switched paths . 17
5.5.4 Permanent virtual packet switched paths . 17
5.5.5 Voice communicators. 17
6 Digital to Analogue conversion within the alarm transmission path . 18
6.1 Commentary . 18
6.2 General . 18
6.2.1 General . 18
6.2.2 Transmission network equipment . 18
6.2.3 Digital to analogue conversion units . 19
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7 Logical alarm triggering . 19
7.1 Commentary . 19
7.2 General . 19
7.3 Logical alarm triggering from a standalone local device connected to the Local Unit
or Controller . 19
7.3.1 General . 19
7.3.2 Logical alarm triggering generated within the Local Unit or Controller . 20
7.3.3 Logical alarm triggering from a Device Provisioning and Management
Platform . 20
7.3.4 Logical alarm triggering from within the Alarm Management System . 21
8 General security requirements . 21
8.1 General . 21
8.2 Design considerations . 22
8.3 ATS . 22
8.4 Use of standard cryptographic algorithms and security protocols . 22
8.5 Authentication requirements . 22
8.6 Tests . 23
8.6.1 General . 23
8.6.2 ATSN Performance . 23
8.6.3 Transmission Time . 23
8.6.4 Verification Interval . 23
8.6.5 Availability . 23
8.6.6 Calculation of availability . 23
8.7 Documentation . 23
8.8 Verification of performance of the interconnections . 23
Bibliography . 24
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European foreword
This document (EN 50134-5:2021) has been prepared by CLC/TC 79, “Alarm systems”.
The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which this document has to be (dop) 2022-06-07
implemented at national level by publication of
an identical national standard or by
endorsement
• latest date by which the national standards (dow) 2024-06-07
conflicting with this document have to be
withdrawn
This document supersedes EN 50134-5:2004 and all of its amendments and corrigenda (if any).
EN 50134-5:2021 includes the following significant technical changes with respect to EN 50134-5:2004:
— The minimum performance parameters for the interconnection including availability, monitoring, security,
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transmission time are now determined by updated reference to EN 50136-1:2012 .
— Requirements for microphone and speaker performance to deliver two-way speech have been removed
and are now determined with EN 50134-3:2012.
— Requirements for the alarm transmission system have been updated to take account of the general
migration of voice traffic to packet-based IP infrastructures by telecommunications providers.
— The minimum technical performance requirements of the alarm transmission system are now prescribed
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by updated reference to EN 50136-1:2012 .
— The requirements for an ATS used within social alarm systems are set out as custom categories utilizing
performance metrics drawn from more than one standardized ATS configuration class described with
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EN 50136-1:2012 .
— Performance parameters are now prescribed for both sessional connected, switched paths or packed
switched networks.
— Different technical performance requirements for the alarm transmission system now included for a
controller designed for use with one local unit or multiple local units.
— Requirements have been added where digital to analogue or analogue to digital signal conversion is
utilized.
— Requirements have been added where a digital to analogue conversion unit undertakes translation
between an analogue signalling protocol and a digital signalling protocol.
— Account has been taken of the increasing use of logical alarm triggering where data from several sources
are combined to determine whether a specified alarm triggering condition has been met. Minimum
requirements are now included logical alarm triggering from any of the following: trigger device, local unit
and controller, device provisioning and management platform and the alarm management system.
— Security requirements including design considerations, use of cryptographic algorithms and security
protocols now included to protect components of a social alarm system from malicious attacks,
inadvertent influences and to ensure privacy and integrity of the transmitted information.
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Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent
rights. CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national committee. A
complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CENELEC website.
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Introduction
A social alarm system provides 24 h facilities for alarm triggering, identification, signal transmission, alarm
reception, logging and 2-way speech communication, to provide reassurance and assistance for people
considered to be at risk.
The social alarm system provides streaming media between the local unit, the controller and the alarm
receiving centre. As a minimum it is in the form of voice communication but in addition it may include, status
data, video and voice or other continuous streaming data. Alarm, fault, and status messages may be received
and processed at a single, multiple or different ARC’s.
The social alarm system can include one or many trigger devices connected to the local unit and/or controller
via interconnections, the security and integrity of which are essential to proper operation of the alarm system.
As communications providers continue to migrate towards Next Generation Networks they are increasingly
converging voice traffic onto their packet based IP infrastructures, which might no longer have a regulatory
requirement to support in-call DTMF tones. This could have an adverse impact on the reliability of in-call tone-
based protocols used in social alarm systems, which could drive future systems development to the use of
communication protocols engineered for packet based transmission environments.
Social alarm systems are part of a family of alarm systems sharing common standards for aspects such as the
performance characteristics of the alarm transmission system. These common performance metrics are
defined within the EN 50136 series and this document selects the appropriate performance parameters for
social alarm systems by reference to the EN 50136 series.
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1 Scope
This document specifies the minimum requirements for the performance, reliability and security characteristics
of interconnections, alarm transmission systems and communications within a social alarm system.
2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content constitutes
requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references,
the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
EN 50134 series, Alarm systems - Social alarm systems
EN 50134-2:2017, Alarm systems - Social alarm systems - Part 2: Trigger devices
EN 50134-3:2012, Alarm systems - Social alarm systems - Part 3: Local unit and controller
CLC/TS 50134-9, Alarm systems - Social alarm systems - Part 9: IP Communications Protocol
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EN 50136-1:2012 , Alarm systems - Alarm transmission systems and equipment - Part 1: General
requirements for alarm transmission systems
EN 50136-2:2013, Alarm systems - Alarm transmission systems and equipment - Part 2: Requirements for
Supervised Premises Transceiver (SPT)
EN 50136-2-4:1998, Alarm systems. Alarm transmission systems and equipment. Requirements for
equipment used in systems with voice communicators using the public switched telephone network
EN 50136-3, Alarm systems - Alarm transmission systems and equipment - Part 3: Requirements for
Receiving Centre Transceiver (RCT)
EN 50518:2019, Monitoring and Alarm Receiving Centre
EN 50600 series, Information technology - Data centre facilities and infrastructures
ETSI EN 300 220-2, Short Range Devices (SRD) operating in the frequency range 25 MHz to 1 000 MHz; Part
2: Harmonised Standard for access to radio spectrum for non specific radio equipment
ETSI EN 300 328, Wideband transmission systems; Data transmission equipment operating in the 2,4 GHz
band; Harmonised Standard for access to radio spectrum
ETSI EN 300 440, Short Range Devices (SRD); Radio equipment to be used in the 1 GHz to 40 GHz
frequency range; Harmonised Standard covering the essential requirements of article 3.2 of Directive
2014/53/EU
ETSI EN 301 406, Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT); Harmonised Standard covering
the essential requirements of article 3.2 of the Directive 2014/53/EU
ETSI EN 302 065-1, Short Range Devices (SRD) using Ultra Wide Band technology (UWB); Harmonised
Standard covering the essential requirements of article 3.2 of the Directive 2014/53/EU; Part 1: Requirements
for Generic UWB applications
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As impacted by EN 50136-1:2012/A1:2018.
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ETSI EN 303 406, Short Range Devices (SRD); Social Alarms Equipment operating in the frequency range 25
MHz to 1 000 MHz; Harmonised Standard covering the essential requirements of article 3.2 of Directive
2014/53/EU
ETSI EN 303 645, CYBER; Cyber Security for Consumer Internet of Things: Baseline Requirements
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviations
3.1 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:
— ISO Online browsing platform: available at https://www.iso.org/obp
— IEC Electropedia: available at https://www.electropedia.org/
3.1.1
social alarm system
system providing 24 hour facilities for alarm triggering, identification, signal transmission, alarm reception, 2-
way speech communication, reassurance and assistance, for use by persons considered to be at risk
3.1.2
alarm receiving centre
ARC
system part which provides facilities for communication with a number of controllers, and providing the alarm
receiving and information processing system as an interface to the alarm recipient
3.1.3
alarm transmission service network
ATSN
group of ATSs of the same category
Note 1 to entry: An ATSN consists of one or more ATSs of the same category, functioning under supervision of the
same management and monitoring centre.
3.1.4
communications
transmission of data between the trigger device, local unit and controller and the ARC or an alarm recipient
3.1.5
controller
interface between one or more local units and the alarm transmission system or alarm recipient, the controller
normally includes the SPT as defined in EN 50136-2
3.1.6
local unit
interface between the user and the controller which enables 2-way speech
3.1.7
trigger device
system part, operated by a human or automatically that communicates to the local unit and controller, initiating
the alarm triggering signal
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3.1.8
logical alarm triggering
combination of the presence or absence of data from one or more system parts which meets a predefined
condition for the generation of an alarm triggering signal
Note 1 to entry: Logical triggering can be implemented in any part of the social alarm system.
3.1.9
device provisioning and management platform
system for the technical administration of the equipment estate and may be capable of generating alarms
3.1.10
interconnections
transmission system that provides the communication between trigger devices and local unit and controller
3.1.11
alarm transmission system
ATS
alarm transmission equipment and networks used to transfer information concerned with the state of one or
more local units and controllers to the annunciation equipment at one or more ARCs or an alarm recipient
Note 1 to entry: An ATS may consist of more than one ATP.
3.1.12
alarm transmission path
ATP
route and alarm message travels between an individual alarm system and its associated annunciation
equipment
Note1 to entry: The ATP starts at the interface between the AS and STP and ends at the interface between the RCT
and AE. For notification and surveillance purposes, the reverse direction may also be used.
3.1.13
pre-alarm condition
condition following the reception of an alarm triggering signal
3.1.14
alarm condition
condition following the pre-alarm condition
3.1.15
fault condition
condition following detection of a fault by the local unit and controller, that prevents the functioning of the
system
3.1.16
pre-alarm warning indication
indication at the local unit that the local unit is in the pre-alarm condition
3.1.17
fault indication
indication of a fault condition
3.1.18
reassurance indication
indication provided locally in alarm condition in order to verify to the user that the local unit has received the
alarm triggering signal
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3.1.19
alarm triggering signal
signal transmitted by a trigger device to indicate an alarm
3.1.20
alarm recipient
person who receives and acts upon an alarm signal
3.1.21
fault reporting time
maximum interval from the time a fault occurs in the interconnection until the transmission of a fault signal is
initiated by the controller
3.2 Abbreviations
For the purposes of this document, the following abbreviations apply.
DTMF Dual tone multi-frequency;
PSTN Public switched telephone network;
EMC Electromagnetic compatibility;
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute;
DPMP Device provisioning and management platform
RF Radio frequency
AS Alarm system
AE Annunciation equipment
NOTE  the term used in the EN 50136 series for AMS
AMS Alarm Management System
NOTE  the term used in the EN 50518 series for AE
RCT Receiving centre transceiver
SPT Supervised premises transceiver
ATE Alarm Transmission Equipment
ATA Analogue Terminal Adapter
4 Interconnections
4.1 General requirements
The interconnections shall be designed to provide a reliable means of communication between triggering
devices, the local unit(s) and the controller. The interconnection may be wired and/or wireless.
The interconnections shall be regarded as an element in a series of connected alarm transmission paths
towards the alarm receiving centre.
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The minimum performance requirements for alarm transmission shall be as stated in 4.3. Where the
interconnections are used for the transmission of additional services e.g video, habit monitoring data,
actimetry, the performance available to alarm transmission shall not be diminished.
4.2 Wireless
For wireless interconnections via RF, frequencies designated for low duty cycle high reliability
equipment/social alarm systems) shall be used for the transmission of alarm and fault signals.
If the RF interconnection is delivered using alternative frequencies, mitigation techniques for ensuring reliable
communication as described in Table 1 shall be applied.
Table 1 — Techniques for Reliable RF interconnections
Type Harmonized standard Prerequisite
 ETSI EN 303 406
Polite spectrum access, adaptive frequency
SRD ETSI EN 300 220-2
agility and acknowledgement.
 ETSI EN 300 440
DECT ETSI EN 301 406 Acknowledgement
UWB ETSI EN 302 065-1 Acknowledgement and mitigation techniques
Adaptive equipment using adaptive mode
2,4 GHz WB ETSI EN 300 328
with acknowledgement
NOTE Mitigation techniques in UWB include “Detect and Avoid” and “Low Duty Cycle”.
If other types of RF communication are used, similar mitigation techniques for polite spectrum access and
acknowledgement should be applied.
4.3 Availability
The interconnections in a social alarm system shall have an availability that fulfils the requirement set out in
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, Table 6, class SP6.
EN 50136-1:2012
The necessary availability is calculated using the methodology in 8.6.6 within this document.
4.4 Monitoring
For wired and wireless trigger devices the interconnections shall be monitored for availability.
For interconnections the maximum permitted interval between periodic communications signals or messages
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shall be according to EN 50136-1:2012 , Table 3, SP2.
For interconnections between wired trigger devices and the Local Unit and controller the maximum reporting
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time shall be according to EN 50136-1:2012 , Table 3, SP5.
Portable trigger devices may be removed from the designated operating area as identified in
EN 50134-7:2017, Clause 8 e) and, in this case, will be reported as a fault signal or status message.
For interconnections between multiple local units and a controller the maximum permitted interval between
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periodic communication signals or messages shall be according to EN 50136-1:2012 , Table 3, SP6.
4.5 Security
In alarm systems there is a risk of malicious substitution of radio signals to generate false alarm or fault
signals. Whilst in other applications of alarm systems malicious substitution could pose a significant risk to
system integrity, in the case of social alarms this risk is viewed as minimal and this document makes no
requirements for preventative techniques.
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4.6 Transmission time
For the interconnection between a trigger device and local unit the maximum alarm and fault signal
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transmission time shall be according to EN 50136-1:2012 , Table 2, SP3.
For interconnections between multiple local units and a controller the maximum alarm and fault signal
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transmission time shall be according to EN 50136-1:2012 , Table 2, SP6.
4.7 Video and other applications
Where other services utilize the interconnection, e.g. video between dwellings, video to ARC, voice telephony,
door entry, internet provision this usage should not impact or degrade the performance of the interconnection
for social alarm applications as described in this document.
4.8 Two-way speech communication
The interconnection should have sufficient capacity to deliver the bandwidth requirements for the number of
rated sessions without degradation from the performance requirements set out in 4.6.Capacity management
Where multiple trigger devices are connected to a local unit and controller this shall not impact or degrade the
performance of the interconnection (availability, transmission and reporting time)
5 Communications
5.1 Commentary
An ATS or ATP may include permanent dedicated links, permanent virtual links or switched links which may
use equipment that is not covered by the requirements of EN 50136-2, EN 50136-3 and this document or may
be affected by other applications sharing the transmission links.
An ATP may include:
a) a transmission link that is shared with non-alarm data applications e.g. video or corporate LAN traffic,
streaming entertainment
b) a transmission link that carries other ATPs,
c) equipment from a third-party transmission network provider, which is not located at either the user’s
premises or the alarm receiving centre and is not classified as ATE,
d) equipment from a third party which is located at the user’s premises but is not classified as ATE.
The performance (reliability) of an ATS could be affected by:
e) unwanted, malformed or otherwise malicious incoming data at the interfaces of the SPT or RCT,
f) transmission network congestion as a result of transmission link sharing,
g) transmission network unavailability due to equipment failure and/or maintenance.
NOTE Alarm transmission equipment includes the termination e.g. ATA to the alarm transmission path.
5.2 General requirements
The alarm transmission system in a social alarm system shall meet the requirements within
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EN 50136-1:2012 .
The alarm transmission system shall support, as a minimum, the following communications: two-way audio,
alarm and fault signals, and status messages.
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