number shall identify the call origination room.
c. Call shall be processed in accordance with the priority requirements of
the system.
d. Pager assignment programming shall be by radio page groups that are
consistent with the patient care areas or sub zone areas (groups of rooms)
for each system. Radio page groups shall be established with a single
address per group regardless of the size of the group so that all pagers in
the group simultaneously receive the same page.
e. The programming of all data for radio paging shall be entered from
either the radio page server, or a laptop computer that is provided as part
of the radio page capability. Programming shall be easy to perform, be
"user friendly", be menu based, use plain English prompts, and shall not
require extensive technical training to perform. A system that requires
hexadecimal programming or extensive, laborious programming procedures or
complicated routines shall not be acceptable.
1.4.3.8
Failure Modes, Alarms and Diagnostics
a. Failure of the LAN shall not affect the functional integrity of any
other Major Functional Component connected to the LAN.
b. If any annunciator station fails, the dome lights and zone lights shall
continue to indicate calls from patient care spaces.
c. At a minimum, a failure alarm shall be automatically initiated by a
total failure of the NCTV System, by failure of any Major Functional
Component of the system, by failure of any power supply, and by failure of
any circuit or component monitored by built-in fault diagnostics.
d. Failure alarms shall be annunciated locally on the Major Functional
Component, and transmitted to pagers carried by the medical facility
maintenance staff.
1.4.3.9
Call Logging
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NOTE: If the NCTV System is being specified for a
medical facility that also requires a NCAV System
that is specified with a Call Logging capability,
then the following interface may be considered.
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The system shall be interfaced with Section 16731A NURSE CALL AUDIO-VISUAL
SYSTEM for logging of call data.
1.4.4
The Contractor shall submit Coordination Drawings as specified in the
Submittals paragraph and detail drawings to scale including:
a. System block diagram, LAN diagram including all servers and interfaces,
riser diagrams, wiring and schematic diagrams, run sheets including number
of conductors and wire number (ID), custom assembly details, and
installation details.
b.
Riser diagrams shall indicate the identification number (ID) for all
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