Using Off-the-Shelf Computers for Management Station in UL Fire or Fire-Voice Systems

The following diagram shows applications examples of the allowed architectures with off-the-shelf computers.

1 – Full Control Management Station in UL Fire Only Systems

The management station can have full control of the Fire only system if it is collocated in the same room with a Fire panel.
If the Fire system is a network of multiple fire panels, the colocated fire panel must be a Global Fire panel.

1 - Management Station Computer in the Same Room as the Global Fire Station

2 – Full Control Management Station in UL Fire or Fire-Voice Systems

The management station can have full control of the Fire-Voice system if it is collocated in the same room with a Fire-Voice panel.
If the Fire-Voice system is a network of multiple Fire-Voice panels, the collocated panel must be a Global Fire-Voice panel with a Global Voice Command Station linked to Desigo CC.

2 - Management Station Computer in the Same Room as the Global Voice Command Station

NOTE:
Unlike UL 864 9^th edition, UL 864 10^th ed. norms require RGD for Fire-Voice control.

3 - Monitor only Management Station in UL Fire or Fire-Voice Systems

If the management station computer is not located in the same room with the Fire or Fire-Voice panel (figure 3 below), it could only be used for view only. Full control is not allowed.

3 - Management Station Computer not in the Same Room as the Fire Global Command Station

NOTE:
Unlike UL 864 9^th edition, UL 864 10^th ed. norms always require that management computer has the associated a Global Voice Command Station in the same room.
This also applies to Comark hardware. With any type of computer hardware, non-colocated management stations can only monitor a Fire-Voice network.