XL Graphics and CCU

Grant Hodson

Company Overview

• Established 1987, small family owned company• Installed more than 2000 control room systems

world wide• Working with Tyco for approx 19 years• Head Office in Brisbane, Australia• Small offices in Newcastle and Sydney,

Australia. Tainan, Taiwan. Shenzhen, China.

Company Overview

• Electronic Design & Engineering• Manufacture

– Assembly: Pick and Place, CNC postive displacement Solder dispensing, Reflow and Vapour Phase Soldering, Transformer Winding, AOI, HALT, HASS

– Enclosures: CNC Routers, Mould Making, Folding & Bending, Stamping

Sample Installations - Military

• Defense Department (USA)• Oakey Army Aviation Centre• Enoggera Army Barracks• Amberley Airforce Base

Sample Installations - Aviation

• Qantas Airlines• Melbourne Airport• Kuala Lumpur International Airport• Dulles International Airport (Washington)• Incheon International Airport (South Korea)

Sample Installations – Transport

• Sydney Rail Management Centre• Broadmeadow Train Control Centre• Junee Train Traffic Control• Sydenham Train Signalling Centre• MRT Upgrade Singapore• MTR Hong Kong

Sample Installations – Business & Education

• Microsoft HQ Seattle• IBM HQ PoughKeepsie• Unisys HQ• UMC Semiconductor Manufacturing Facility• University of Illinois• Penn State University• University of NSW• El Ain University - UAE

Sample Installations - Landmark

• The White House• The Sydney Opera House• Darling Harbour• Disney• KLCC/Petronas Twin Towers (Kuala Lumpur)

Sample Installations - Power

• Tarong Power Station• Ningbo Thermal Power Station China• Santa Rita Power Station Phillipines• Stanwell Power Station• Revelstoke Dam Hydro (Canada)

Product Overview

XL Graphics CCUVCS

VCS

• Integrates differing communication technologies into a single system.• Operator has same operational procedures regardless of underlying physical

communications equipment

Command Terminal Workstations

VCS

Rail Management Centre Control Room

Rail Management Centre

Rail Management Centre

XL Graphics History

• 1987 – CGA (4 Colour) MSDOS, Patent Granted on using icons to annunciate fire on graphics screens

• 1990 – SVGA (256 Colour)• 1995 – Windows 95• 2004 – Client Server Windows 2000&XP

XL Graphics History

• Wholly owned (source code level) Tyco product• Many installations performed by Siemens due to

historical relationship with Tyco. (Tyco was Siemens distributor in countries including Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia)

XL Graphics Architecture

• Client Server Design• Clients communicate

via TCP/IP so can be locally or remotely installed

• SQL Database Server

XL Database

XL DatabaseServer

XL GraphicsClient

XLCommunications

ServerXL Maintenance

XL Security

XL Graphics C/S

• Current version is designed primarily with commissioning and servicing in mind. It incorporates literally hundreds of features suggested by field engineers. Ex:– Detector Locating– Runtime/Deployed Data– Entire site can be copied to laptop and run .. No

hidden or complicated registry settings and drivers during installation despite having SQL database server

XL Graphics C/S

XLCommunications

Server

XL Database

XL GraphicsClient

XL Graphics C/S

XL Graphics C/S

• Bitmap and Vector Support• Support for zooming in to region rather than

entire screen• Design allows for future expansion of vector

features especially for Autocad

XL Graphics

• Suitable for international markets as it is designed as Bilingual system from the ground up

• Long history of supporting other languages including

– Canadian French (MSDOS)– Korean– Simplified Mandarin– Traditional Mandarin– Russian– German– Spanish– Approx 5-10 Euro languages under development

XL Graphics Future

• It is not a static product .. Ongoing development and features added

• Client/Server design allows for easy and modular addition of different clients. Ex: South Korea has some requirements for MXF100 interface. This can be done as a specific client to provide these custom features.

• Initial version concentrates on technician/site engineer features. Future version will add many unique operator features (based on operator feedback from earlier versions).

XL Graphics Future

• Suggestions for other clients have included– Web server (simple prototype of this already done,

but not for release)

• Enabling Technology which comprises hardware and software

• Two primary applications

Interfacing Networking

CCU - Interfacing

• CCU is used in many niche areas as an interface controller

• Modbus – Used to interface 4100U panels to PLCs via Modbus protocol (also TCP/IP)

• Allen Bradley • Rockwell Ethernet IP• BMS – Provides FIP interface to some BMS

systems

CCU - Interfacing

• MXBridge – Provides gateway between Minerva and MX panels

• PIU – Pager interface to FIPs providing support for a variety of dial up and direct connect pager protocols

• RDM – Remote Diagnostic module for interfacing technicians to FIPs remotely via dialup connections.

• PPL – Point to Point Links. Enabling interconnection of FIPS via non standard or unusual physical media

• There are also a large variety of interfaces not related directly to Fire (ex: Voice, Wiegand).

CCUNET

• Life safety network designed primarily to connect Fire Indicator Panels of different manufacture or model to Control Room head end.

• CCUNET can operate standalone.• Supports flexibility in design of network including

topology (ex: Star and Loop) and medium (ex: Copper, Fibre, modem)

CCUNET

Local XLG C/S

Remote XLG C/S

ConventionalSimplexMXMXL

Pager

CCUNET Redundant Loop

TCP/IP

A fire has been detected in the

building.Whoop, Whoop!!

CCUNET – Physical Layer

• RS232• RS485• RS422• 4-20Ma Current Loop• Ethernet• Modem• Fibre, 820Nm, 1300Nm multi mode, 1300Nm Single

Mode (CCU1 available, CCU3 2nd half 2007)• Wireless, GSM (installed at pilot site, not released)

CCUNET – Datalink, Network & Transport

• Ensures data error detection. Two levels of detection including checksum and IBM polynomial.

• Data routing capability with network filtering• Allows routing of identical data via different

paths simultaneously• Has transport layer analogous to UDP and TCP• Features “parallel” transmission to different

hosts for delivery speed.

CCUNET – Application Layer

• CCU Network Logic Application– Combinatorial Logic, Timers

• CCUNet Protocol– Local interpretation of FIP protocol and conversion to

CCUNet Protocol

• Annunciation and Control Application– CCU used as network transport medium

CCUNET – Application Layer

• CCU Network Logic Application– Combinatorial Logic, Timers

• CCUNet Protocol– Local interpretation of FIP protocol and conversion to

CCUNet Protocol

• Annunciation and Control Application– CCU used as network transport medium

• CCU Supports a variety of Fire Networks and Protocols including:– Vigilant– Notifier– Siemens– Simplex– Tyco MX– Minerva– Shinwha– Keltron– Modbus– OPC– TCP/IP

CCU3

• Next generation of CCU hardware• Designed originally to port CCUNET to native

TCP/IP network (note that TCP/IP is already supported by CCUNET)

CCU3 Interfaces

• Communications– 4 isolated com ports– Seperately programmable for RS232, RS485 or

RS422 onboard

• Output Relay – Can Indicate– Processor or Supervision Failure– Alarm annunciation– Control via CCUNET Logic

CCU3 interfaces

• Supervised (Alarm) Input (4-20mA)• Power

– 10-16VDC– 18-30VDC– 5W

• Temperature– -40 to +80°C

• GSM• I/O• Ethernet, TCP/IP• Fibre• Modem• High Speed networking for Digital Voice and

Video

CCUNET Example

CCU - OPC

• OPC – Object Linking and Embedding for Process Control

• Defined by a consortium of companies including Microsoft

• Increasingly specified on large campus and industrial sites

CCU - OPC

• OPC defines a method of publishing events for use by other applications.

• For example on a large industrial site, the fire system might publish its status and events via an OPC server. A PLC system might include these events in its logic and take action with the plant based on detected fire alarms.

• Alternatively, a university site may want to use a specific or even proprietary Graphical Information System. The central system could receive events and status from the Fire, Electrical, Air conditioning and other systems via the OPC interface.

CCU-OPC

• The CCU-OPC leverages on XL Graphics and CCUNET to provide an OPC server.

• The advantage of this design is that all Fire Indicator Panels (including conventional panels) which have a CCU interface, can be published on the OPC interface. Ex: Supports Simplex, Minerva, MX, Vigilant, Notifier etc

• OPC Server utilises DCOM technology

XL Database

XL DatabaseServer

CCUNET

CCU OPCAE

Server

CCU – OPC Example Solution

Sample Site

• RMIT – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Sample Site

• Tornado Demo

Sample Site

• Creating a new site