Alarm management — is the application of human factors (or ergonomics as the field is referred to outside the U.S.) along with instrumentation engineering and systems thinking to manage the design of an alarm system to increase its usability. Most often the major… … Wikipedia
Computer-Betriebssystem — Ein Betriebssystem ist die Software, die die Verwendung (den Betrieb) eines Computers ermöglicht. Es verwaltet Betriebsmittel wie Speicher, Ein und Ausgabegeräte und steuert die Ausführung von Programmen. Betriebssystem heißt auf Englisch… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Computer cooling — An OEM AMD heatsink mounted onto a motherboard. Computer cooling is required to remove the waste heat produced by computer components, to keep components within their safe operating temperature limits. Various cooling methods help to improve… … Wikipedia
Burglar alarm — Silent alarm redirects here. For the album, see Silent Alarm (album). Burglar (or intrusion), fire and safety alarms are all electronic today. Sensors are connected to a control unit via a low voltage hardwire or narrowband RF signal which is… … Wikipedia
Apollo Guidance Computer — and DSKY Invented by MIT Instrumentation Laboratory Manufacturer Raytheon Introduced August 1966 … Wikipedia
Central station (alarm monitoring center) — Central Station is a common term used to refer to a company that provides services to monitor burglar, fire and residential alarm systems. The central station may also provide watchman and supervisory services.Central stations use special… … Wikipedia
Fire alarm control panel — A fire alarm control panel (FACP), also called a fire alarm panel. Technicians usually refer to the FACP as the panel. A fire alarm control panel is the central control device that receives information from input devices (smoke detectors, heat… … Wikipedia
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Positive feedback — Alarm or panic can spread by positive feedback among a herd of animals to cause a stampede. Positive feedback is energy taken from the output of a system and reapplied to the input, which is phase congruent with the input signal. A system… … Wikipedia
Intrusion detection system — An intrusion detection system (IDS) is a device or software application that monitors network and/or system activities for malicious activities or policy violations and produces reports to a Management Station.[1] Some systems may attempt to stop … Wikipedia
Access control — is the ability to permit or deny the use of a particular resource by a particular entity. Access control mechanisms can be used in managing physical resources (such as a movie theater, to which only ticketholders should be admitted), logical… … Wikipedia