Glossary Of Terms - Agri-Alert 9600 Mode D'emploi

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: The indication to the system that an alarm message has been
received. The alarm acknowledgement stops the dialout sequence and can be ex-
ecuted over the phone or from the keypad.
ALARM MEMORY: A record of the last fifty alarms stored by the system (see Section
3.2).
AT-HOME ARMING: Burglar zones around the perimeter are armed but at-home zones
are bypassed after exit delay has elapsed if no one has left the building.
BURGLAR ZONE: A zone used for detecting break-ins. Delays are provided to allow
authorized entries and exits. All burglar zones are armed or disarmed as a group using
a special key sequence (see section 1.6).
BUSY LINE TRIES: In the dialout sequence, the number of times the system will retry
a number when the number is busy.
CALL DELAY: The time between the validation of an alarm and the beginning of the
dialout sequence.
CALL SEQUENCES / ALARM: In the dialout sequence, the number of times the phone
numbers in memory are called for a given alarm.
DEFAULT: A value permanently stored in memory and used to define a parameter in
the absence of a user-defined value.
DIALOUT SEQUENCE: Upon validation of an alarm, the calling of the phone numbers
in memory according to a specified order until each number is reached a specified
number of times.
ENTRY DELAY: The time delay for entering the site without setting off an alarm (see
Section 3.5).
EXIT DELAY: The time delay for exiting the site without setting off an alarm (see
Section 3.6). This applies to burglar zones only.
FORCE ARMING: Delay burglar zones are armed even if they are in an alarm state.
INTERCALL TIME: In the dialout sequence, the delay after a phone number has been
called, before proceeding with the next number.
LED: Light Emitting Diode — An electronic device used to indicate the status of
various functions on the front panel.
PARTITION: A group of zones used for activating or bypassing several zones at once.
RECALL TIME: The length of time between the time the alarm is acknowledged and
the time the dialout sequence is relaunched (as long as the zone has not returned to
its normal state for the duration of reset time.
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