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Configure the ATI devices

To configure the ATI general devices, you must have a base concept of the functions and areas programming of the REACT4000 that you are integrating with IIM. The RTU functions and areas listing table can be obtained by manually reading out the list from the ATI MassAlert™ software on the PC connected to the REACT4000, the REACT4000 hardware menus, or obtaining the list from the ATI engineer who installed the system originally. This is usually the best way to obtain the list before being in front of the specific REACT4000. The following is a sample functions list obtained from ATI.

Activation		Area #'s	Exercise
1	Cancel	—	No
2	Weekly Siren Test	—	No
3	Attack	—	No
4	National Anthem	—	No
5	Tornado	—	No
6	Heat Stress	1,2,3,4	No
7	Public Address	—	No

Each function has a specified function name, a numbered "Key”, and a designator to identify if the function is sent out as an “Emergency” or an “Exercise” function. For example: Key 1 is programmed for the “Cancel” function, as an Emergency (Non-Exercise) function. Key 2 is programmed for the “Weekly Siren Test”, as an Emergency function. Since the majority of installations use their GV systems mostly during their base-wide exercises, ATI codes their functions as either an “Emergency” function or an “Exercise” function. For the purposes of our programming of the

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system, we consider every message that is not explicitly labeled or called as an “Exercise” message, is initiated, as a default mode, as an “Emergency” message. In this example all messages are considered as “Emergency” messages. All of these keys are easy to map, except for Key 6 the “Heat Stress” function. In this type of configuration there are multiple functions and derivations (“areas” or “sub-areas”) of that function, programmed under that one key.

In the standard “non-area” key, there is only one function that is associated with that key. For example, Key 1, if initiated, only queues the “Cancel” function for the targeted list of poles, zones, or sites (RTUs). Similarly, when initiated, Key 2 only queues the “Weekly Siren Test” function for the targeted list of poles, zones, or sites.

However, whenever Key 6 is initiated, it does not immediately queue to send out the “Heat Stress” function to the targeted sites. When Key 6 is initiated it opens up another menu, that has a list four additional derivations of the Heat Stress function such as “Heat Stress Condition 1”, “Heat Stress Condition 2”, “Heat Stress Condition 3”, and “Heat Stress Condition 4”. These four sub functions are called “areas” by ATI. The following is a sample of key configuration, if we put those key functions in a ladder-logic type:

Key #1: Cancel 
            Cancel: initiate
Key #2: Weekly Siren Test
            Weekly Siren Test: initiate
Key #3: Attack
            Attack: initiate
Key #4: National Anthem
            National Anthem: initiate 
Key #5: Tornado
            Tornado: initiate
Key #6: Heat Stress Condition
            Heat Stress Condition 1
               Heat Stress Condition 1: initiate
            Heat Stress Condition 2
               Heat Stress Condition 2: initiate
            Heat Stress Condition 3
               Heat Stress Condition 3: initiate
            Heat Stress Condition 4
               Heat Stress Condition 4: initiate
Key #7: Public Address
            Public Address: initiate

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Configure the ATI device in BlackBerry AtHoc