ONYXWorks TM

Integrated
Facilities
Monitoring
System
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CONTENTS 1. PRODUCT BRIEFING

ONYXWorks, a PC based graphical workstation, provides real-time event reporting
Product Briefing 3 for NOTIFIER fire systems. In addition, ONYXWorks is NOTIFIER's third generation of
integration technology that links fire alarm, security, CCTV, and other key information
in a building owner's facility. ONYXWorks becomes a single point of control for the
Selling Strategies 3-4 life safety and security systems in a single building or multiple buildings citywide,
statewide, or even worldwide using local or wide area networks in a Windows® XP®
Selling Points 5-6 platform.
ONYXWorks unites a fire alarm network, whether NOTIFIER®, SimplexGrinnell®, EST®,
Qualifying Questions 6-7 or Siemens®, with security systems. ONYXWorks is an ideal retrofit solution to
integrate existing fire alarm panels together. From a single PC, you can view and
manage all systems over a proprietary network. ONYXWorks is both UL- and ULC-listed
Features and Benefits 7 for remotely reading status of all NOTIFIER fire panels on your network. ONYXWorks
is versatile and can be fully customized to adapt to a wide variety of monitoring
requirements. ONYXWorks supports both multiple operators and multiple workstations
Key Applications 8 monitoring all or part of local or remote sites. With this system flexibility and multiple
configuration options, ONYXWorks can meet a wide
System Integration 9 range of customer needs. Some examples of potential
configurations include:

Competitive Overview 9-10 • Multiple NOTIFIER fire alarm control panels

(NOTI•FIRE•NET™)
• NOTIFIER and other manufacturer's fire alarm
control panels
• Fire, Security, and CCTV integration

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2. SELLING STRATEGIES
TARGET CUSTOMERS
ONYXWorks is an essential integration tool for simplified monitoring and control of fire
and security systems in medium to large scale facilities. Main target customers for
ONYXWorks are current or potential NOTIFIER installations with central monitoring require-
ments. Additional target customers for ONYXWorks include vertical markets where there is
a multiple-building facility or widely geographically dispersed campuses with multi-vendor,
fire alarm system products.
• Education - University and College Campus Buildings, K-12 Local School Districts
• Healthcare - Hospitals, University/ Teaching Hospitals
• Commercial - Manufacturing Facilities, Warehouses, Retail, Commercial Campuses
• Government - Agency Facilities, Embassies
• Aviation - Airports, Hangers
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The following table outlines typical ONYXWorks configurations for medium and large 3. SELLING POINTS
installations in five major target vertical markets.
Vertical Typical Medium Installation Typical Large Installation Intuitive Graphical Workstation that reports real-time system events
Market and System Configuration and System Configuration • When an emergency situation develops, the workstation identifies the event
Local School District University Campus and pinpoints its location to enable fast response by responding personnel.
• ONYX Series FACP • ONYX Series FACP ONYXWorks automatically navigates to the floor where the emergency occurred
• Embedded NFN Gateway • NFN or Echelon Gateway in real-time and displays an icon to represent the device and its status.
Education • Remote IP Connection • Competitor’s FACP’s • The workstation displays building floor plans overlaid with system device icons,
• Security which are easy to identify and understand with minimal training. These icons
• CCTV represent actual fire and security devices in the protected building.
• Local IP Connection
Central reporting and control station for NOTIFIER fire panel systems
Government Agency Facility Group of Government Facilities • Local and remote upload/download from the workstation and full programming
• ONYX Series FACP in Various Geographic Locations capability of your NOTIFIER fire panels from the ONYXWorks workstation with
• NFN or Echelon Gateway • ONYX Series FACP
• Competitor’s FACP’s • NFN or Echelon Gateway VeriFire ToolsTM.
Government • Security • Competitor’s FACP’s • Industrial computer with text and color graphics display capability of all network
• CCTV • Security events and points.
• Local IP Connection • CCTV • Ideal addition to NOTI•FIRE•NETTM when network monitoring and control
• Remote IP Connection capabilities are required.
• NOTIFY-IP Competitor fire monitoring and systems integration
Manufacturing Facility Retail Chain with Corporate • Uses integration NIONs (Network Input Output Node) to interface with other
• ONYX Series FACP Headquarters manufacturer's fire alarm systems.
• NOTI-FIRE-NET • ONYX Series FACP
Commercial • Combine various CCTV and security systems into a common reporting platform.
• NFN Gateway • DACR Gateway
• Security ONYXWorks system modularity using gateway interfaces
• Remote IP Connecton • Gateway interfaces are designed to interpret and report all events back to the
Typical Hospital University/Teaching Hospital Workstation. Gateways allow local and remote monitoring of fire systems and
• ONYX Series FACP • ONYX Series FACP building operations by communicating with the workstation over Local Ethernet
• NOTI-FIRE-NET • NFN or Echelon Gateway networks (Intranet) or Wide Area Ethernet networks (Internet) These gateways
Healthcare • Embedded NFN Gateway • Competitor’s FACP’s also add to the modularity of the system by providing monitoring interfaces
• Local IP Connection • Security as needed.
• CCTV • Different types of gateways were developed for different applications. Up to 99
• Local IP Connection
can be used in a single ONYXWorks system. The available gateway interfaces
Typical Airport are NFN Gateway, Echelon Gateway, and the DACR Gateway.
• ONYX Series FACP - The NFN Gateway - the interface to NOTIFIER panels on a NOTIFIER
Aviation Not Applicable • NFN or Echelon Gateway
• Competitor’s FACPs
network (ver 5.0). The NFN Gateway can also connect directly to NFS-640
• Local IP Connection and NFS-3030 ONYX® series panels in smaller or remote applications. This
• Possible Remote IP Connection gateway is available in two versions, a PC version (P/N NFN-GW-PC-W/F)
and an embedded version (P/N NFN-GW-EM).
Target ONYXWorks customers are: - The Echelon Gateway - adds integration capabilities as it interfaces to
• New construction Network Input Output Nodes (NION). NIONs are designed to interpret
• Retrofits - migration path for replacing older or obsolete fire alarm systems with communications from competitor panels, CCTV switchers, and security
newer systems in existing buildings within budget constraints panels. This gateway comes in a PC version (P/N ECH-GW-PC-W).
• New or existing customers with multiple NOTIFIER fire alarm control panels - The DACR Gateway - interfaces to select digital alarm communicator
in a single facility (NOTI-FIRE-NETTM) receivers through a RS-232 connection. This gateway allows the customer
• Adding new systems with the ability to integrate existing systems - including to graphically represent events sent from the field by Digital Alarm
non-NOTIFIER competitive fire alarm panels Communicator Transmitters (DACT). The DACR gateway (P/N DACR-GW)
An example of a retrofit application is a new wing added to a building. A competitive fire is a software based gateway and can operate on any ONYXWorks
alarm control panel is installed in the older section of the building. A NOTIFIER panel is workstation.
4 added in the new wing and ONYXWorks connects and controls the two systems. 5
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Interface to digital alarm communicator receivers (DACR)
• Receive events from digital alarm communicator transmitters (DACT) using
Ademco, Silent Knight, and Radionics receivers
• Supervises and monitors each site for periodic test signals
Reporting over Ethernet
• Reduce costs and take advantage of pre-existing cabling used for the business
network
• UL approved for shared IP
Supports NOTIFY-IP voice paging for mass notification
• Notify building occupants of an emergency using real-time voice messages
to local, regional or international facilities
• Based on current ONYXWorks and NOTI-FIRE-NETTM architecture
4. QUALIFYING QUESTIONS
1. Would you be interested in a package that offers a graphical display of your
building with fire alarm system devices?
The ONYXWorks graphical workstation displays system off-normal events in conjunc-
tion with their actual location in your facility by overlaying devices on the building
floorplans. Identifying the exact location of an emergency provides a faster response.
2. Do you have multiple, dispersed business and/or manufacturing locations with
fire alarm systems that need "centralized" 24 hour monitoring and control?
The ONYXWorks system can seamlessly monitor and control fire, security and other
facility information from a central location using a network of UL listed modems,
digital receivers, and Ethernet gateways. ONYXWorks workstations can be located
in 24 hour monitoring locations such as guard stations with responding personnel,
on-site fire departments, or building systems command centers. Multiple workstations
can be installed if the reporting is required in more than a single location.
3. Is your facility protected by fire panels from manufacturers other than NOTIFIER?
The ONYXWorks system offers monitoring and control capabilities of multi-brand fire
panels and systems such as EST, SimplexGrinnell, Siemens,and other popular brands.
4. Do you have security and CCTV requirements that you would like joined into
a single system?
Using the Echelon Gateway, ONYXWorks interfaces to Network Input Output Nodes
(NION) that interpret communications from CCTV switchers and security panels.
5. Do multiple users with various job functions need to access your fire and
security systems?
With ONYXWorks, multiple users can be granted secure, password protected access
to the information they require. For example, administrators, responding personnel,
and maintenance personnel can all obtain information that is pertinent to them from
the workstation. ONYXWorks Security Profiles prohibit unauthorized access to
ONYXWorks. System Administrators define and maintain unique security profiles as
well as determine which users have access to ONYXWorks.
6. Do you need to replace your fire alarm network, but would like to extend your
budget over several years?
ONYXWorks can monitor and reuse your existing system to permit gradual replace-
ment over time as budget permits.
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7. Would you like the ability to alert remote buildings of imminent emergencies
utilizing existing NOTIFIER fire alarm equipment?
ONYXWorks offers the life saving NOTIFY-IP mass notification feature that allows real-
time voice paging over Ethernet to remote facilities during an emergency. NOTIFY-IP
broadcasts encrypted, real-time voice instructions to a single facility or to multiple
locations worldwide using an IP network connection. With NOTIFY-IP, the network
connection is continuously monitored to ensure system integrity and reliability.
5. FEATURES AND BENEFITS
Features Benefits
Pinpoint the exact location of an emergency and reduce
Intuitive graphical display of emergency
response time. Events are color coded so they can be
events overlaid on the building floor plan
quickly identified
Control of fire panels (extent of control Interoperability of dissimilar systems and allows
depending on panel model) and security previously separate systems to be controlled
panels as a single building system
Import converted vector (.WMF) drawing
files or bitmaps (.BMP) from existing Speeds up installation and makes programming easier.
CAD floor plan drawings.
Dynamically generated floor plan
Provides a higher overview of the floor plan and serves
overview used in conjunction with zoom
as a point of reference to the bigger floor plan
options
Links multimedia (text, audio, video, Provide event or device specific instructions
and bitmaps) to any system device to operators for an informed response
Allows expansion when additions to the system are
ONYXWorks Gateway architecture
required at different stages
Supports multiple Boolean operators between
Network-wide Cooperative Control networked panels including Fire, Security, and CCTV.
by Event Events from other manufacturer panels can be used
to activate NOTIFIER panel outputs
Allows authorized personnel only to access the system,
Operator Login/Logout/Change Password
providing a safe & secure monitoring workstation
Function
whether or not it is installed on a business Intranet.
ONYXWorks is a valuable maintenance and diagnostic
tool so maintenance personnel monitoring the system
ONYXWorks reports and flags trouble
events on a real-time basis
are immediately alerted. The History log allows
searching by device to determine if any trouble or
maintenance patterns exist for an informed response.
For rapid addition of a device on your network,
the Autocreation of Device icon in the workstation
Autocreation of Devices function automates setup of node number, device number and
provides the icon. This utility then adds the device into
the floor plan with all the pertinent information.
Use ONYXWorks in conjunction with NOTIFIER's voice
Supports voice paging for mass evacuation system for real-time emergency voice
notification (NOTIFY-IP) paging for mass notification over local area networks,
wide area networks or IP.
UL-864 listed, UL-1076 listed Recognized by independent testing for fire and security
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6. KEY APPLICATIONS 7. SYSTEM INTEGRATION

LOCAL MONITORING X

NOTI•FIRE•NETTM
Network version 5.0

NFS-3030 NFS-640
REMOTE MONITORING
T ONYXWORKS-NW/-NF

HONEYWELL SECURITY

NOTI•FIRE•NETTM
Network version 5.0
INTERNET/ NFN GATEWAY
INTRANET (embedded)
NFS-3030 NFS-640

ONYXWORKS-NW/-NF

The simple, easy-to-use ONYXWorks workstation makes a powerful addition to

a NOTI•FIRE•NETTM intelligent fire alarm network. Examples of local monitoring
applications using only NOTIFIER fire alarm systems include hospitals, high rise
8. COMPETITIVE TABLE
buildings, university campus, etc. NOTIFIER EST SimplexGrinnell Siemens
Features
ONYXWorks Synergy iSecurePro Cymphany
Pentium IV Pentium III Pentium III
Using the NFN Gateway, ONYXWorks can monitor local and remote NOTI•FIRE•NETTM PC Platform 2.0 GHz 800 MHz 800 MHz Pentium II
networks over Ethernet (TCP/IP Gateways can also be connected over Intranet/Internet 512 MB RAM 256 MB RAM 512 MB RAM
to bring multiple buildings together). Operating
Windows XP Windows 2000 Windows 2000 Windows NT
System
ONYXWORKS-EW Access Workstation Ethernet Echelon Ethernet Ethernet Ethernet
Control Protocol and ARCNET® ARCNET® RS 485 RS 485
DACR UL 864 UL 864 UL 864 UL 864
Interface UL 1076 UL 1076 UL 1076 UL 1076
NION® NION® NION® NION® Note: includes UL 294 UL 294 UL 294
UL Approvals
UL/ULC on No ability to No ability to No ability to
competitive integrate to com- integrate to com- integrate to com-
interfaces petitive products petitive products petitive products
Ethernet for both
S computer network
TOTAL
and fire network
INTEGRATION transmits fire Access Control
Competitive
MONITORING Fire Interface
CCTV
alarm control Database (ACDB)
Security Integration
Integration panel signals, can be accessed Ethernet from
NOTIFIER Fire Panels PC-to-PC and card
Ethernet LAN security alarms, via LAN PC-to-PC and
access controllers
Support card access Systems are from card access
only
ONYXWorks is an all-encompassing integration package for complex installations transactions and not backward controllers only
and operations, capable of local and remote monitoring of NOTIFIER and other workstation to compatible with
workstation com- older EST panels
manufacturers' fire alarm systems. munications. All
systems are back-
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NOTIFIER EST SimplexGrinnell Siemens

Features
ONYXWorks Synergy iSecurePro Cymphany
Supports dial-up
direct from remote Access Control Supports digital
WAN Support controllers, NCBs, Database (ACDB) receivers and Access Control
digital receivers can be accessed Ethernet for all Only
and Ethernet for via WAN signals
all signals
No. of Servers 99 in local and/or 1 (can have 2 as
wide area N/A 256
Supported configurations backup)
NFN Gateway
103 nodes per
gateway supports
99 servers Can interface with
(99x103=10,197) up to 2,048
No. of Nodes 64 Per Server 98
Echelon Gateway Network Intelligent
200 nodes per Controllers
gateway supports
99 servers
(99x200=19,800)
NOTIFIER panels EST-2, EST-3, Simplex Pyrotronics’ MXL
and direct IRC-3 and FCC. Networked series (MXL, MXLV,
Fire Integration integration No direct panels. No direct MXLIQ). No direct
to competitor integration to integration to integration to
panels competitor panels competitor panels competitor panels
Security Yes Yes Yes Yes
Integration
Claims to integrate
Supports multiple to most systems
brand switchers FireWorks iSecure Vision s/w available today
simultaneously on workstation and and hardware. including Pelco,
CCTV Integration the same network additional s/w. Supports American American
including Phillips, Supports Pelco Dynamics, Pelco Dynamics, Vicon,
Burle, Javelin, only and Phillips Javelin, Kalatel,
Pelco, Vicon and Burle
4,000 Password
Protected 256 Operator
Max. Users Unlimited Unlimited Operators, and
1,000 Operator Password
Groupings
GUI w/Zoom
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Capabilities
Import Graphic import .dxf, .rle,
.bmp and .wmf .dxf drawings .bmp only
Files .tif, .dwg or .wmf
No. of 32 per server
No Limit 32 16
Workstations (server included)
Limited only by
size of hard drive; Limited by
System History 1.5 million
back-up warning hard drive
at 100,000 events
ARCNET® is a registered trademark of Datapoint Corporation. Echelon® is a registered trademark of
Echelon Corporation. Simplex® and iSecure® are trademarks owned or used under license by Tyco
International Services AG or its affiliates. ONYX, ONYXWorks, NOTI•FIRE•NET, and NOTIFY-IP are trad-
10 marks of Honeywell. All other trademarks are the property of their registered owners.
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