FASTELink enabled luminaires, conversions and signs are all connected by a simple wired communications network to the P4 M-web ethernet interface with integrated web server and supervision unit, which can be connected to any LAN network, communicating using TCP-IP protocol.
The M-web unit incorporates a luminaire interface and may be connected directly to up to a maximum of 125FASTELink emergency lighting fittings. Alternatively, by adding Collector boxes to an M-web, the system can be expanded to monitor up to a maximum capacity of 7,875 FASTELink emergency lighting luminaires.
M-web is used as a central supervision unit in the system and is continuously scanning the whole installation and gathering information about all of the emergency luminaires.
When addressed by Web Navigator software such as Internet Explorer, the M-web will transmit all the information it has gathered from the emergency lighting units. This information is transmitted as HTML pages which are displayed by the navigator software. Using the same software, it is also possible to change the configuration of the M-web unit or of each emergency lighting unit.
The M-web units incorporate an email facility which can periodically send current status information to the end user.
The main tasks of the M-web supervision software are:
Each emergency lighting fitting will carry out fully automatic self-testing in full compliance with BS EN 1838 / BS 5266 Pt.7 requirements.
If communications to the M-web unit should be interrupted or fail, automatic testing of luminaires continues on a stand alone basis as described for FASTEL stand alone systems. When communicating to an M-web unit, automatic testing is carried out as determined by the settings of the M-web unit on a nominal seven day cycle.