Comander Perimeter Security System
Engineering and Installation Manual
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SMS IP Connection(s) should only be configured on a Comander
rack which is acting as the system Collator.
2.5.9 Mosaic Mimic Mapping
A serial MIMIC panel can be connected to a Comander Rack COM Port, as explained
in section 2.5.3 above. When a MIMIC panel is used with a Comander system, up to
48 separate Zone indicators can be linked to the status of alarm circuits. Each Zone
can be linked with up to three of the system's circuits, and can be activated by an AND
or OR logical combination of its circuits' status.
The numbers used to reference different circuits must be the unique global circuit
numbers discovered by the Collator, so MIMIC panel mapping should only be
configured on a Comander which is acting as the system Collator. To see a full list of
the system circuit numbers and the devices and connections they refer to, use the
Show Collated Circuits option on the SMS Collator page of the Configurator.
More than one MIMIC panel can be connected to the Comander's
COM ports, but multiple MIMIC panels cannot be configured
separately – they will all show the same information.
2.5.10 ACTi
The features configured in this section allow the Comander network to act as a
transparent transport for legacy analogue CCTV cameras, in conjunction with ACTi
CCTV products.
Typically, an analogue CCTV camera will be connected to a ACTi Video Encoder
device which is situated close to the camera location. The Encoder connects to the
Comander Ring via Ethernet, and should be configured with an IP address which lies
within the Comander Ring subnet. (Each Encoder also has an access username and
password, which are part of its own internal configuration.)
At the Control Room end, an ACTi CCTV matrix with an RS485 control bus output can
be connected (via a RS485 / RS232 convertor) to one of the Comander's serial ports.
The port should be set up in the Comander Configurator as a TCP or SSL client
(depending on whether data encryption is required), connecting to the local Rack IP (or
loopback), and allocated a unique port number which will be dedicated to ACTi IP
traffic. The illustration below shows a COM port configured for SSL communications to
the local loopback IP, using port 2605:
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