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History

In 2004, Telecom New Zealand announced to the New Zealand Fire Service that they intended to decommission the network housing the current Alarm Transport System over the next couple of years.

New Zealand Fire Service took this as an opportunity to assess their current systems and to look at a new environment which would allow them to extract more relevant data from the alarm panels with the intention ultimately resulting in more effective and efficient dispatch of fire response teams to genuine fires.

Separate tenders calling for the creation of a new message handling system (STSMHS) and for a Service Provider to manage the new environment were offered by the New Zealand Fire Service.

Armourguard Security Ltd (trading as ADT Fire Monitoring) were the successful Service Provider and are contracted to provide a new monitoring system which has been implemented in conjunction with the new NZFS message handling system.

The New Zealand Fire Service also requested that ADT Fire Monitoring take over the administration and messaging service of the existing ATS network. The ATS network remained in place until 2007 when the last LTX was migrated to the new network.

ADT Fire Monitoring implemented the changes in two phases

Phase 1

Phase 1 of Fire Monitoring for ADT involved assuming the responsibility at the NZFS request of the “old” Telecom network. This is via an LTX through the ATS network connected to the Telecom Message Handling System. The status of a Fire Alarm is determined by its Event Signal (fire, test, isolate, defect and comms fail). These events are sent through the Message Handling System (MHS) to the NZFS and to ADT and are also paged out to Service Agents.

Phase 2

In March 2006, Phase 2 ADT Fire Monitoring began migrating the existing Fire Alarms connected to the ATS infrastructure to the new New Zealand Fire Service Signal Transport System Message Handling System (STSMHS). This involves the change over from the Telecom LTX network to ADT’s new network and Alarm Signalling (ASE) which transmits event Signals to the NZFS network STSMHS. The benefit of the change over is to allow analogue addressable panels to send additional “rich data” (i.e. Point and Zone data) to be sent from the Fire Alarm to the NZFS, enabling a better response service. At the end of the change over the entire Telecom ATS network was decommissioned.