Spot announcing machin - Logged alarm - I/O manager, all in one PC - program. |
Hardware: Multi 8255/8253 I/O card. (192 I/O card from Decision Computer International Co., Ltd. ) |
Usergroups: In public areas like stores , markets , railway stations , airports & other . |
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PA controller / add on The idea is to make the use of low-cost , massproduced industrial I/O cards in conjunction with a multimedia PC easy , yet powerful and flexible. Such programs make the PC become a controlcenter that opens for new, extended use, in a wery easy way. |
Announcing Machine , Alarm & Extended I/O Manager ( US-Ver. ) is one program made from this idea . |
Some of the specifications: Uses a 192ch. Multi 8255-8253 I/O
card and a 16bit ( or better ) SoundBlaster card. Made
as a Windows ( 3,1 3,11 95 �98 ) program . If a raid diskcontroller and doubble
harddisks are used, this system will be nearly failsafe. Mediafiles as Announcements,
Gongsignals, Alarmsignals and Messages of any kind are all stored as wavefiles
on the harddisc.serfriendly extended Mediafile Recorder
/ Function Composer. User Guide made as Online help.umber
of mediafiles has in practice no limit in this program. Start and end dates and controlled
autoerase after End Date prevent the harddisc from being filled with old
files. Mediafiles
are activated by different programfunctions, I/O inputs etc. Input priority in maximum 40 levels
as standard. Alarminputs
with eventlogg to file, message control etc. Maximum number
of groupnames controlling digital output patterns, are 500 as standard.
Mediafiles gives indirect separate function control of digital outputs.Microphone gives indirect function
control ( Priority, output lines ). Mouse
gives direct function control by click or doubbleclick on buttons.
User can easily make mediafiles and compose functions related to them. |
Control of annoucements, fixed messages, alarm messages with this alarm & extended digital I/O manager and announcing machine. |
Combine this
system , a modern intercom
or PA system and your own fantasy
to make new userfriendly functions available . |
The composer of soundfiles & functions related
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uSyncronized I/O controller outputs > real otputs ( LED's ) |
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The combined alarm / microphone input & I/O output controller |
The Alarm control & reset |
The alarmlog |
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Announcement controller |
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About |
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Hardware setup |
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Version : ( USA - version ) |
Product : Announcing Machine , Alarm & Extended I/O Manager ( US-Ver. ) |
OS : Windows 3.1 and up. ( Multimedia ) . Windows95 / 98 works wery well |
Capacity : Wery high if you have a big harddisc. In practice there is no capacity limit. |
Make announce : Function support record from microphone, Parts of the function of each announce is saved together with the announce, thus giving the user the possibillity of making a very advanced function with little effort. |
Play Announce : Multifunction controlled by both the program setup and the announcefile itself. |
Erase Announce : Manually or automatic , one announce at a time. |
Weekplanner : Welcome, closing in 10 minutes, closed / welcome back , openingtimes etc. |
Groupname (500) :Used by any wavfile to direct the gongsignals, announces, or alarmmessages to predefined areas by activating Groupname-related Digital Outputs. |
Microphone : Microphone has the first priority levels when paging . Microphone is also used to make announces, fixed messages, Alarm messages etc . |
Usersetup : Userfriendly Digital I/O manager. ( 48 channels controlled by user ) . |
Digital I/O Card : ( 192 channels ) used by: Mikrophones, Alarminputs, Defined output groups , direct controlled outputs. |