Central reporting for life safety equipment
An emergency lighting system that includes a storage device, an emergency lighting device, an area control device and an external device. The emergency lighting device includes a light, a first controller having a first electronic processor configured to perform a self-diagnostic test, and a first input/output (I/O) device configured to transmit data associated with the self-diagnostic test. The area control device includes a second I/O device configured to receive data associated with the first self-diagnostic test form the first I/O device and transmit the data associated with the self-diagnostic test to the storage device.
1. An emergency lighting system comprising:
a storage device;
an emergency lighting device including:
a light,
a first controller having a first electronic processor configured to perform a self-diagnostic test, and
a first input/output (I/O) device configured to transmit data associated with the self-diagnostic test;
an ambient lighting system including an ambient lighting device and a sensor device; and
an area control device including a second I/O device configured to
receive data associated with the self-diagnostic test from the first I/O device,
receive operating condition data of the ambient lighting system, and
transmit the data associated with the self-diagnostic test and the operating condition data to the storage device.
2. The emergency lighting system of claim 1 , wherein the data associated with the self-diagnostic is received by an external device including a third I/O device.
3. The emergency lighting system of claim 2 , wherein the external device includes a user-interface that is configured to display the data associated with the self-diagnostic test.
4. The emergency lighting system of claim 1 , wherein the first controller is configured to perform the self-diagnostic test according to a predetermined schedule.
5. The emergency lighting system of claim 1 , wherein the first I/O device is further configured to receive a signal from the second I/O device, and
the first controller is further configured to perform the self-diagnostic test in response to the first I/O device receiving the signal.
6. The emergency lighting system of claim 5 , wherein the signal is received by the first I/O device after an external device transmits, by a third I/O device of the external device, a request signal to the second I/O device.
7. The emergency lighting system of claim 6 , wherein the request signal is transmitted by the third I/O device to the second I/O device when a user of the external device selects, by a user-interface of the external device, to initiate the self-diagnostic test in the emergency lighting device.
8. The emergency lighting system of claim 5 , wherein the first I/O device receives the signal from the second I/O device using a wired communication means.
9. The emergency lighting system of claim 5 , wherein the first I/O device wirelessly receives the signal from the second I/O device using short-range radio communication.
10. The emergency lighting system of claim 1 further comprising a second emergency lighting device including a second light, a second controller having a second electronic processor, and a fourth I/O device.
11. The emergency lighting system of claim 10 , wherein the first I/O device is further configured to wirelessly communicate with the fourth I/O device using short-range radio communication.
12. The emergency lighting system of claim 10 , wherein the first I/O device is further configured to receive a signal from the fourth I/O device, and
the first controller is further configured to perform the self-diagnostic test in response to the first I/O device receiving the signal.
13. A method of operating an emergency lighting system that includes a storage device, an emergency lighting device including, an area control device, and an external device, the method comprising:
performing, by a controller having an electronic processor included in the emergency lighting device, a self-diagnostic test;
transmitting, by a first input/output (I/O) device included in the emergency lighting device, data associated with the self-diagnostic test to a second I/O device included in the area control device;
transmitting, via an ambient lighting including an ambient lighting device and a sensor device, operating condition data of the ambient lighting device and the sensor device; and
transmitting, by the second I/O device, the data associated with the self-diagnostic test and the operating condition data to the storage device.
14. The method of claim 13 further comprising receiving, by a third I/O device included in an external device, the data associated with self-diagnostic test from the storage device.
15. The method of claim 14 further comprising displaying, by a user-interface included in the external device, the data associated with the self-diagnostic test.
16. The method of claim 13 further comprising performing, by the controller, the self-diagnostic test according to a predetermined schedule.
17. The method of claim 13 further comprising:
receiving, by the first I/O device, a signal from the second I/O device; and
performing, by the controller, the self-diagnostic test in response to the first I/O device receiving the signal.
18. The method of claim 17 further comprising receiving, by the first I/O device, the signal after a third I/O device included in an external device transmits a request signal to the second I/O device.
19. The method of claim 18 further comprising transmitting, by the third I/O device included in the external device, the request signal to the second I/O device when a user of the external device selects, by a user-interface included in the external device, to initiate the self-diagnostic test in the emergency lighting device.
20. The method of claim 17 further comprising receiving, by the first I/O device, the signal via a wired communication means.
21. The method of claim 19 further comprising receiving, by the first I/O device, the signal using short-range radio communication.
22. The method of claim 13 , wherein the emergency lighting system further includes a second emergency lighting device that includes a fourth I/O device.
23. The method of claim 22 further comprising receiving, by the first I/O device, a signal from the fourth I/O device; and
performing, by the controller, the self-diagnostic test in response to the first I/O device receiving the signal.
24. The emergency lighting system of claim 23 further comprising transmitting, by the fourth I/O device, the signal to the first I/O device in response to the fourth I/O device receiving a request signal from the second I/O device.