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
Alarm indication signal — (AIS) is a signal transmitted by a system that is part of a concatenated telecommunications system to let the receiver know that some remote part of the end to end link has failed at a logical or physical level, even if the system it is directly… … Wikipedia
Alarm signal — In the field of animal communication, an alarm signal is an antipredator adaptation referring to various signals emitted by social animals in response to danger. Many primates and birds have elaborate alarm calls for warning conspecifics of… … Wikipedia
Alarm circuit — An alarm circuit (also dry pair or dry loop) is an unconditioned leased pair of telephone wire from a telco. The pair does not have a dial tone or battery (continuous electric potential), as opposed to a wet pair (a line usually with no dial tone … 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
Medical alarm — A medical alarm is an alarm system designed to signal the presence of a hazard requiring urgent attention and to summon emergency medical personnel. Other terms for a medical alarm are Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) or medical alert.… … Wikipedia
Autodialer alarm — An autodialer alarm, or community alarm as it is known in Britain when it is run by the County council, is an electrical device that usually has a push button transmitter which an individual may use to summon assistance to their location. These… … Wikipedia
Radio Data System — The RDS Logo Radio Data System, or RDS, is a communications protocol standard for embedding small amounts of digital information in conventional FM radio broadcasts. RDS standardises several types of information transmitted, including time,… … Wikipedia
Car alarm — This article is about the electronic device. For the Kim Possible episode, see Car Alarm (TV Episode). A car alarm is an electronic device installed in a vehicle in an attempt to discourage theft of the vehicle itself, its contents, or both. Car… … Wikipedia
Constant false alarm rate — (CFAR) detection refers to a common form of adaptive algorithm used in radar systems to detect target returns against a background of noise, clutter and interference. Other detection algorithms are not adaptive. Non adaptive detectors are… … Wikipedia
The Fourth Alarm — Infobox Film name = The Fourth Alarm image size = caption = director = Robert F. McGowan producer = Hal Roach F. Richard Jones writer = Hal Roach H. M. Walker Robert A. McGowan narrator = starring = music = cinematography = editing = Richard C.… … Wikipedia