1.Introduction
1.1.About this manual…
This manual is designed to help you, the Installer, with the installation process for the IRIS Touch alarm dialer. We recommend that you read through this manual, in its entirety, before you visit the customer’s site and begin the installation.
1.2.Overview
The IRIS range of alarm dialers allow users to migrate intruder alarm systems away from traditional PSTN communications to IP based and/or wireless networks, without the need to upgrade or replace the alarm system.
The majority of intruder alarm systems which are configured to make alarm calls to a central monitoring station use the traditional PSTN analogue network as the communications path. However, PSTN is becoming increasingly unsuitable as users move to IP and Voice over IP (VoIP) for their fixed networks or rely purely on mobile (GSM and GPRS) communications. In addition most PSTN service providers are migrating to VoIP networks, so in the not too distant future PSTN lines may be withdrawn.
The IRIS dialer range is unique in offering a quick and cost effective way to interface any existing alarm system to alternative networks such as GSM, Ethernet and GPRS. As a result of the flexibility and power of IRIS it has become the IP transmission system of choice for Monitoring Centres across Europe.
The IRIS 200 series is intended to be used with alarm panels that do not have sufficient space inside their enclosures for an IRIS dialer. There are three dialers in the range:
•IRIS Touch 200 - GSM
•IRIS Touch 220 - Ethernet
•IRIS Touch 240 - Ethernet & GPRS
The IRIS Touch dialer should be located next to the alarm panel and powered from the panel’s internal battery backed DC supply.
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