Types of Alarms & Alerts
There are 2 types of alarms and 1 type of alert:
Sensor alarms: triggered if a sensor goes out of range (e.g. temperature range, humidity range, etc.)
Sensor alerts (optional feature): a warning that a sensor may be about to go out of range
System alarms: triggered if a piece of Checkit equipment requires attention, such as reconnecting a device to the AC power supply, replacing a battery, etc
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Alarms triggered by sensors (e.g. high temperature, low humidity, transmitter offline, probe failure, etc.) require an incident audit.
Alarms triggered by signal repeaters and the WARP do not require an incident audit.
Alerts do not require an incident audit.