Notifier’s Alarm Acknowledgement Module (AAM) is designed for use where regulations and AHJ’s permit to assist in the reduction of transmission of unwanted alarms to the Brigade and the general premises. When a smoke detector activates, the LED indicator and sounder will activate and provided the acknowledge button is depressed within the alarm acknowledgement period the FIP will be inhibited from sending the alarm to the CIE for the alarm investigation period. This gives the occupant time to investigate the cause of the alarm and, if it is a nuisance alarm e.g. burning the toast, and they are able to clear the cause and allow the system to reset before the expiry of the investigation period no alarm will be sent.

The acknowledgement period can be set for 20 secs, 40 secs or 60 secs. The alarm investigation period may be set from 0 to a maximum of 3 minutes in multiples of 1 minute. If either of these time periods are not met an alarm will be transmitted to the CIE to signal that Fire Brigade dispatch is required and alert the general premises. During this period should another initiating device in the same occupancy go into alarm this will be instantly transmitted by the FIP to the CIE.