To use the Zone feature, you need to activate the BioStar 2 AC license first. And then, you can use the BioStar 2 Zone. The concept of the BioStar 2 Fire Alarm Zone is similar to BioStar 1's as below.
* For the Fire Alarm Zone configuration, please choose Suprema devices that support "Supervised Input," such as DM-20, CS-40, CS-20, CS-20P, and so on.
Electrical Specification
- If the Fire Alarm Control Panel's electrical output is too high, the Suprema device's input port will be broken.
- Switch Input
- VIH (V) - Min. 3V - Max. 5V
- VIL (V) - Max. 1V
- Pull-up resistance (Ω) - 4.7k
- The input ports are pulled up with 4.7k resistors.
The difference is the number of devices per a single Zone. And another difference is Zone mode.
How to Configure the Fire Alarm Zone
- BioStar 2 AC Standard license or higher license
- [BioStar 2] Server License Specification
- Max. Zones: 100
- Max. Device per Zone: 1,000 Global, 32 Local
- Mode: Local Zone or Global Zone
- Local Zone: It consists of RS-485-connected Master and Slave devices, with the Master device acting as "Zone Master."
- RS-485 based, the RS-485 Master device is the Zone Master.
- Global Zone: It consists of TCP/IP and RS-485-connected devices, with the BioStar 2 server acting as "Zone Master."
- TCP/IP and RS-485 based, BioStar server is the Zone Master.
* Zone Master: Makes logical decisions and controls functionality.
For the configuration, please find the attached file and the linked document.