Interlock zone monitors the status of two or more doors to control that one door cannot be opened or closed if other doors are open or unlocked. You can also disable access if a user stays within the zone.

There are several constraints on the configuration of interlock zone.

  • An interlock zone can be configured with up to 4 doors.

  • Each door should have a door sensor.

  • An interlock zone can only set the doors with the devices connected to the CoreStation.

  • A door set as an interlock zone cannot be set to another zone other than the fire alarm zone.

Information

message ZoneInfo {
  uint32 zoneID;
  string name;

  bool disabled;

  repeated uint32 doorIDs;

  repeated Input inputs;
  repeated Output outputs;
}
zoneID
The ID of the zone.
name
Maximum 48 characters in UTF-8 encoding.
disabled
Indicate whether the zone is disabled.
doorIDs
Maximum 4 doors can be assigned to a zone. Each door should have a door sensor for the CoreStation to check its status.
inputs
You can configure up to 4 inputs to detect whether there is a user inside the zone. If a signal is detected on any of these inputs, access will be denied.
outputs
You can configure up to 8 actions, which will be triggered when the specified events occur.
message Input {
  uint32 deviceID;
  uint32 port;
  device.SwitchType switchType;
  uint32 duration;
  uint32 operation; // not used
}
deviceID
The ID of the device.
port
The index of the input port.
switchType
The type of the input port.
duration
The minimum duration for which the signal should be detected in milliseconds.
message Output {
  uint32 event;
  action.Action;
}
event
The event type which will trigger the action. For example, if you want to excute an action when an alarm is detected, you can set it to BS2_EVENT_ZONE_INTERLOCK_ALARM(0xA100).
action
The action will be executed when the above event occurs.

Get

Get the interlock zones configured on a CoreStation.

Request
Parameter Type Description
deviceID uint32 The ID of the CoreStation
Response
Parameter Type Description
zones ZoneInfo[] The zones configured on the CoreStation

GetStatus

Get the status of zones configured on a CoreStation.

Request
Parameter Type Description
deviceID uint32 The ID of the CoreStation
zoneIDs uint32[] The IDs of the zones
Response
Parameter Type Description
status ZoneStatus[] The status of the zones configured on the CoreStation

Management

Add

Add zones to a CoreStation.

Request
Parameter Type Description
deviceID uint32 The ID of the CoreStation
zones ZoneInfo[] The zones to be configured on the CoreStation

Delete

Delete zones from a CoreStation.

Request
Parameter Type Description
deviceID uint32 The ID of the CoreStation
zoneIDs uint32[] The IDs of zones to be deleted from the CoreStation

DeleteAll

Delete all zones configured on a CoreStation.

Request
Parameter Type Description
deviceID uint32 The ID of the CoreStation

Alarm

SetAlarm

You can set or release the alarm status of zones.

Request
Parameter Type Description
deviceID uint32 The ID of the CoreStation
zoneIDs uint32[] The IDs of zones whose alarm status will be set
alarmed bool If true, set the alarm. If false, release the alarm

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