Local area pagers
Local area pagers
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Has anybody implemented or has references about a system for paging maintenance personnel within a plant? We want to implement one where our mechanics or electricians can carry a pager at all times and our alarm system automatically pages them when their intervention is required. Any ideas? Preferrably not using a commercial cell-phone network.





RE: Local area pagers
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RE: Local area pagers
Keith Cress
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RE: Local area pagers
These days the closest equivalent would be those FRS walkie talkies. They're UHF. They tend to have a Call button for paging. If you insist on individual addressing then you could make use of the channels and codes. But having everyone on one channel might be better.
RE: Local area pagers
That's a relatively simple interfacing issue if the system provides a dry contact output.
You can also purchase alarm system dialers. They deliver a message by telephone when triggered.
RE: Local area pagers
RE: Local area pagers
Try this - we use them to provide telephone contact and in addittion the system relays all alarms out to the pager so that we can see instantly what alarm has been recieved by the building management system (trend) A good way of keeping ontop of all that is going on within the building.