PD6662, prEN50131-1: 2004

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EN50131 A guide from Honeywell Security 1
Introduction 2
Why is BS4737 being replaced by EN50131? 2
What is EN50131? 2
What is PD6662? 3
What timescales are involved? 3
What does it mean in real terms? 4
Overview of main requirements 4
Glossary 4
Security Grades 4
Access Levels 5
Environmental Class 5
Signalling Equipment 6
What differences will we see? 6
EN50131 compliant product from Honeywell 10
Control Panels 10
Detectors 10
Web Help 11

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PD6662, prEN50131-1:
2004 A guide from
Honeywell Security
Introduction
This booklet is intended to give an
introduction to the new European standards
being introduced in the UK, to replace
BS4737 and gives guidance on how to
ensure that Honeywell Security products
can be installed to meet the new standards.
Why is BS4737 being replaced by
EN50131?
The EU has legislated that where a pan
European standard exists, such as
EN50131, this should supersede any
existing national standards. In the case of
the UK, this means EN50131 should
replace BS4737. DD243 is unaffected and
will remain in place, because there is no
pan European standard to cover confirmed
alarms.
Additionally, EN50131 introduces different
security grades to which alarm systems can
be installed in order to better suit the
different types of installation. BS4737 only
had one standard for all types of installation.
What is EN50131?
EN50131 is a pan European set of
standards designed to cover the design and
installation of all aspects of Intruder and
Hold-Up Alarm Systems (I&HAS). EN50131-
1 is the main document. This is the general
standard, providing and overview of I&HAS
requirements. The EN50131 set of
standards also include component
standards that give more detailed
specification on specific parts of the alarm
system. The complete set of standards is
shown below:

Standard Subject Status

50131-1 General standard Draft release 2004
50131-2 Standard for detection devices Part published as a draft
document for review
50131-3 Standard for control panels and peripherals Draft published.
Not released
50131-4 Standard for warning devices, bells, sounders etc. Not published
50131-5 Standard for interconnections, wires, wireless links etc. Not published
50131-6 Standard for power supplies Published but under
review
50131-7 Application guidelines, mainly for installers Draft released as
technical specification

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Currently only prEN50131-1: 2004, a redraft
of the general standard, EN50131-6 and
DD CLC/TS50131-7 are available for use.
This means that there are some gaps in the
detail covered by the standard. To
overcome this, the British Standards
Institute has created another document
called PD6662.
What timescales are involved?
After the 1st October 2005, all new
installation must be installed to PD6662:
2004. Until then, systems can be installed
either to BS4737 or to PD6662: 2004. It
cannot be a mix of both.

What is PD6662?
PD6662 is a document which takes the
available parts of EN50131 and also calls
up the relevant parts of BS4737 to fill in the
gaps. Additionally, it calls up DD243, which
is not being replaced by EN50131. This
gives us two things:

1. A more complete document to work

with, causing less ambiguity.

2. A hybrid standard which has many

familiar features of the old BS4737.

PD6662 will mean an easier transition into

EN50131. It is intended that when the
component standards within EN50131 are
published, PD6662 will be updated to
remove the relevant references to BS4737.
Over the coming years, this will mean an
incremental changeover to the full EN50131
family of standards. Until this happens, in
the UK, we will be installing systems to
PD6662: 2004, rather than EN50131.

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What does it mean in survey before installing the system. The
following few pages will explain these points
real terms? further.

What we will see are some slight changes in

the look and feel of the alarm system in
use, some changes to the signalling,
changes to detectors and bell boxes at the
higher security grades, bigger power
supplies and batteries and a requirement for
the installer to document all aspects of a
Overview of main requirements
Glossary
The following is a brief list of the phrases
and abbreviations, not described elsewhere
in this document, which are used
commonly in the new standards.

Term Description
Alert Indication given by the system to warn users that there is information to be
shown
ATS Alarm Transmission System - The signalling system used by the alarm panel
CIE Control and Indicating Equipment - The control panel, keypads and expanders
Indication Specific sounds or keypad displays which tell the user the status of the system
Notification The activation of sounders or signalling to pass on the presence of an alarm
condition
Restore Procedure of returning the system to the normal state following an alarm
WD Warning Device - sounder, siren, bell box etc, which gives an alarm or an alert

Security Grades
EN50131 installations must meet one of four security grades, depending on the level of risk.
These roughly translate as follows:

Grade Risk
1 Low risk: Not likely to be enforced in the UK as it covers DIY-style bells-only systems.
2 Medium risk: This is first grade that will be recognised by insurers and is likely to
cover the majority of domestic and low value commercial premises. Required as a
minimum for Police-calling systems.
3 Medium-high risk: This grade is likely to cover most commercial and industrial
premises, as well as high value domestic premises.
4 High risk: The requirements for this grade are extremely specialised. It is expected
that Grade 4 will be specified in few installations.

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It is the installer’s responsibility to ensure that be selected. It is a requirement of EN50131
a system of the correct grade is installed. that all components will be marked with their
This must be done via a properly security grade.
documented Site Survey. DD CLC/TS50131-
All components in the system must meet
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the security grade of the system. The
Survey requirements. The advice of the
grade of an entire system is equal to that
customers’ insurers should be sought if there
of the lowest graded component. A
is any doubt on the grade required. When
component with a higher grade than the
the security grade has been determined, the
system can be used, without affecting the
appropriately graded security products must
system’s grading as a whole.

Access Levels
EN50131 separates user access to the system into four levels:

Level Meaning
1 System in standby mode, viewable by any passer by.
2 System accessed by a normal user.
3 System accessed by an installer.
4 System accessed by the manufacturer.

This is mostly straight forward. However, it is important to note that a level 3 installer is not
allowed to access the system until they have been authorised by a level 2 user. On the
Galaxy systems, this is normally done by the user via menu 48.

Environmental Class
There are 4 classes which determine any component’s suitability for different environments.
However, there are only two which will be of any relevance:

Class Description
II Indoor General. This covers detectors, keypads and control panels etc. This specifies
that components should operate in an environment which can vary in temperature
form -10 to +40ºC.
IV Outdoor General. This covers Bell boxes and any other component which will be fitted
outside and exposed to the full force of the weather.
All components will be marked with their environmental class.

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Signalling Equipment
EN50131 closely specifies the performance
and requirements of the signalling used at
each security grade. Different levels of
performance are given different ATS ratings.
The differences in requirements are fairly
technical and will be covered by the
manufacturer. However they cover aspects
such as frequency of signalling, alarm path
supervision, time to transmit and encryption
of the data. There are 3 ATS levels which
are important:

ATS Level Meaning

2 Used in Grade 2 systems and is roughly equivalent to current digital
communicators
4 Used in Grade 3 systems and is roughly equivalent to encrypted Ethernet
signalling or 3rd party monitored signalling products.
3 Used as a back-up path device on Grade 3 systems and has most of the
requirements of ATS 4 but with less stringent monitoring.

The main thing to take from this is that
on Grade 3 systems and above, we must
install signalling equipment that includes
encryption. Current digital
communicators will not meet this
requirement!
phone land line for normal signalling and
GSM wireless as a back-up. This is not an
automatic requirement under EN50131 or
PD6662. However, it will most likely be
required by the insurance companies on all
grade 3 installations.

The new Galaxy Ethernet module will allow What differences will we see?
signalling over Local and Wide area
User interface
networks to suitably equipped monitoring
By and large this will be the same. However,
stations using SIA 3 protocol. This has
a few differences are noted below.
encryption and heart-beat monitoring to
allow it to comply with the requirements of ■ Engineer access is not allowed until
ATS 4 for Grade 3 compliance. authorised by a user. This is normally
granted by user code via menu 48 on
Dual Path signalling
the galaxy panels. However, this
For dual path signalling, two completely
requirement can be tailored in menu 42
independent signalling paths to the alarm
Codes.
receiving centre are required. For example,

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■ Users now have the ability to override
some conditions which would have
prevented the system from setting.
System faults and tampers (on grade 2
systems) can be omitted for one set
period, by the user, at the time of
setting.
■ 5-digit user codes are required for grade
3 systems.
■ Users can modify their own PIN.
Indications
Indications about the state of the system
cannot be shown to users with access level
one. In the unset state, if a tamper, line fault
or some other event occurs, which would
have been shown on the keypad
immediately, the situation can now only be
indicated to the user after they have entered
their code. However, to alert the user to the
fact that there is something to be indicated,
there is a new “Alert condition”. This will
beep the keypad and give the display “Alert
- Enter Code”, in order to bring a user to the
keypad. There are new parameters in menu
51 to alter exactly what is shown in an alert
System Grade Standby time
2 12 hours
3 24 hours*
* This can be reduced to 12 hours if signalling AC fail to the ARC.
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condition, in order to tailor the system to the
type of installation.
Signalling
The kinds of signals which are transmitted
to the monitoring station are more extensive.
For instance, when a tamper or fault
condition occurs in either the set or unset
states, they must be transmitted to the
monitoring station. This requires more
channels on communicators and pushes us
towards communication formats such as
SIA and Contact ID, rather than channel
based signalling. All new Honeywell Galaxy
panels are able to send signals in all the
above formats.
Power Supplies
One of the biggest physical changes
concerns power supplies. The system must
be able to run for longer on the battery and
the system must be able to recharge the
battery within a fixed timescale, regardless
of the other power requirements of the
system. The following times are required for
PD6662:
Recharge time to 80%
72 hours
24 hours
This means two things when compared to
BS4737 installations:
1. Bigger batteries must be used
2. The power supplies need to be more
powerful for a given size of system.
The rating of a power supply must be
specified as follows: The rated capacity is
that which it can continually supply, whilst
still having enough reserve to charge a flat
battery and power the main control panel.
For instance, on a grade 3 system, a 2 amp
PSU would be rated at only 1 amp under
PD6662.
Detectors
Under PD6662: 2004, detectors are still
covered by the imported sections of
BS4737. On grade 2 systems, current
detectors will be satisfactory, provided they
Grade 3 zone wiring for PIRs
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bare the appropriate EN compliant
markings. On grade 3 systems, there is a
requirement for Anti-Mask operation on
motion detectors. This means that any
motion detector fitted on a grade 3 system,
must have anti-mask capability. Additionally
the control panel must be able to detect
and act on the anti-mask signal. On the new
grade 3 compliant Galaxy system, this is
taken care of by a new resistance level in
the existing zone circuit. A 12k resistor fitted
across the anti-mask relay output on the
detector will allow the anti-mask functionality
to be included on the same pair of wires as
the existing alarm and tamper functions,
removing the need for separate anti mask
zones. The new zone wiring is shown
below:
Event Log
EN50131-1 specifies the event log capacity
and the recorded event types. Generally,
most systems record much more than what
is mandatory under EN50131-1. Additional
events which are not mandatory are classed
as non-mandatory. It is not permissible for a
non-mandatory event to erase a mandatory
event. In order to comply with this, the
Honeywell Security control panels feature a
2-stage event log as shown below:
Servicing
As with current practise, Grade 2 and
Grade 3 systems require two service
inspections to be carried out each year.
However, PD6662: 2004 allows one of
those visits each year to be a remote
inspection. On the new Galaxy alarm
panels, the remote inspection technology is
included. This is supported by the PC
downloading software packages which
include the necessary facilities to retrieve
the remote servicing data.

All new events Additionally, the panels can be programmed

during an engineer visit, to automatically dial
up on the remote servicing date, and
Newest automatically send the remote servicing
events Main Event log
(records all data, without any special user intervention.
events as
before)
Old non- This can result in huge savings in time and
mandatory
resource for installers.
events are
lost here

Only mandatory
events are
pushed into
this area
Mandatory
Oldest events are
events lost when
new
mandatory
event occur.

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EN50131 compliant
product from Honeywell

Honeywell Security is able to supply the following products which a suitable for use in systems
compliant to prEN50131-1: 2004 and PD6662: 2004:
Control Panels

Panels Grade 2 Grade 3 Environmental

Class
Galaxy 2-20 X II
Galaxy 2-44 X II
Galaxy 3-144 X X II
Galaxy 3-520 X X II
Galaxy MK7 Keypad and Keyprox X X II
6160 Keypad X X II
Galaxy RIO X X II
Galaxy MAX3 Prox readers X X IV
Galaxy Telecom module X II
Galaxy Ethernet module X X II
5800 series wireless detectors (with H suffix) X II
V2 series wireless detectors (with GY suffix) X II

Detectors

Model Grade 2 Grade 3 Environmental

Class
EMPS-50 magnetic contact X II
IS-215 series PIR X II
IS-2260 PIR X II
DT-725D/P dual-tech X II
DT-7435 series dual-tech X II
DT-7450 series dual-tech X II
FG-1608/1615/1625 series glass break detector X II
DT-7550 series dual-tech X X II
DT-900 dual-tech X X II
DT-906 dual-tech X X II

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Web help
You can also visit our special EN50131
Website for the latest information on
EN50131 and PD6662:
www.honeywell.com/security/EN50131

Honeywell Security &

Custom Electronics
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East Kilbride
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Scotland
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Tel +44 (0)1355 354000 April 2005
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