Integrated Alarm & Access Control panel from Direct Alarm Supplies

New TS0099 Enhanced IP Interface for GE ChallengerTM provides more features, lower cost and improved value.

Connecting a Challenger panel over an IP network has never been more affordable.

GE Security has released an all-new IP interface module for the Challenger Integrated Alarm and Access Control panel. The TS0099 Enhanced TCP/IP Interface supersedes the TS0898 Challenger Ethernet Interface.

Benefits of the TS0099 include improved performance, easier installation, and lower cost than the TS0898, ensuring IP connectivity to management software or a central monitoring station that allows the Challenger system to be configured and managed remotely as well as locally, has never been more affordable.

Providing IP connectivity to the Challenger V8 panel allows significant savings in cabling by using existing IT infrastructure, and can avoid the cost of site visits via remote management of the Challenger system. The lower cost TS0099 also provides new features that include integrated firewall protection, auto-sensing 100 Mbps/10 Mbps network speed and field upgradeable firmware. Using event-driven mode instead of polled mode keeps the network bandwidth requirements to a minimum.

The TS0099 plugs directly onto the Challenger TS0816 motherboard and utilises 128-bit encryption for high security. The TS0099 has an RJ-45 port for Ethernet connection and a serial printer interface for local printing of alarm and access control events, either in real time or as an event history report at any time.

In the event of an IP communication failure, the Challenger panel can automatically use its onboard PSTN dialer as a backup device to report alarm events.

Available now from Direct Alarm Supplies - A Hills Company.