VESDA_MON

Aspirating smoke detection supervisor: confirmed Alert / Action / Fire-1 / Fire-2 staging, latched stages, aspiration-flow and detector-fault supervision.

Validated application blockDCIM · EnvironmentIEC 61131-3IEC 61499v1.0.0

When to use it

Use VESDA_MON when an aspirating (air-sampling) smoke detector protects a data hall, and its staged obscuration levels have to be confirmed, latched, annunciated to DCIM and proven to still be capable of detecting anything.

Interface

The published port signature. This is the whole of what the block exposes to your program — the implementation body is not shown here and ships with the download.

Inputs

PortTypeUnit
ENABLEBOOL
OBS_PCT_MREAL%obs/m
DET_OKBOOL
FLOW_OKBOOL
ISOLATEBOOL
ALERT_PCT_MREAL%obs/m
ACTION_PCT_MREAL%obs/m
FIRE1_PCT_MREAL%obs/m
FIRE2_PCT_MREAL%obs/m
DLY_ALERTTIME
DLY_ACTIONTIME
DLY_FIRETIME
ACKBOOL

Outputs

PortTypeUnit
LEVEL_PCT_MREAL%obs/m
STAGEUSINT
ALM_ALERTBOOL
ALM_ACTIONBOOL
ALM_FIRE1BOOL
ALM_FIRE2BOOL
ALM_DET_FAULTBOOL
ALM_FLOW_FAULTBOOL
ALM_ISOLATEDBOOL
ALM_CFG_ERRBOOL
DET_AVAILBOOL

IEC 61499 event interface

EI INIT, REQ·EO INITO, CNF

Validation evidence

Tests
10
Simulated scans
219
Simulator
v0.1.0

Complete IEC 61131-3 implementation with a published test suite that runs on the vplant simulator. The counts above are that suite, executed on this build.

  • Conforms to IEC 61131-3
  • Conforms to IEC 61499

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