Smart Monitor Fire Alarm

The fire-alarm control panel at SMPC’s factory sits somewhere hard to reach. Every alarm meant someone had to get to the cabinet before it could be acknowledged or silenced, nobody could see at a glance which building the alarm came from, and there was no digital record of who did what and when. The brief: put the panel’s state on a screen everyone responsible can open immediately, without changing the fire system’s existing hardware or wiring.

This is a life-safety system, so we started from the real fire-alarm panel rather than from the screens: every button on the web has to match the program actually running in the panel. Then we followed one alarm from the device that raises it, onto the screen, out to the people who need to know, and through to the action taken and the record it leaves.

1. 1. Read the alarm: straight from the existing panel

   We built a connector that talks to the Mitsubishi controller in the factory’s panel over the plant’s own network, reads every input, output and internal flag once a second, and sends it straight to the web app.

2. 2. Check point by point: every button tied to the right spot

   We worked through the control program the factory supplied and matched it against the web app’s device list point by point, so every signal and every on-screen command is tied to the right point in the real panel.

3. 3. See where: site map and 3D floor plans

   We built a site map over an aerial photo and 3D building plans from the client’s building drawings, then placed every device at its real position with a live status colour, so the people responsible see at once which building and zone an alarm came from.

4. 4. Tell the right people: LINE alerts and one-tap calls

   Alerts go to a LINE group when an alarm starts and when it clears, plus a daily summary. The app has an emergency contact list that dials with one tap, and an emergency button anyone can press from any page.

5. 5. Act safely: confirm first, record everything

   Access is split into five levels, from guest up to super admin, deciding who can watch, act, test and configure. Every command needs a confirmation and is checked again against the panel’s own conditions. Alarm history and the record of every action are searchable and export to Excel or PDF.

Monitoring is live. Sending commands from the web app back to the panel is built and will be switched on as the final step, after acceptance testing witnessed with the factory on site, because in a life-safety system nobody gets control before every point has been verified.

• Every device, visible from any screen

  The people responsible can see every fire-alarm device on the site map and floor plans from a phone, tablet or PC, without walking to the cabinet.

• Every alarm leaves a record

  Every event and every action is logged, filterable by time, zone and status, and exportable as a monthly report.

• Alerts reach the right people

  LINE alerts the moment an alarm starts and when it clears, with an emergency contact list that dials straight from the web app.

• Remote control, ready for sign-off

  Acknowledge, silence, un-silence and reset are built and checked against the panel’s program; they are enabled once on-site acceptance is witnessed.