The system includes user defined filters to eliminate unwanted alarms or to customerize the application for different types of users. Repetitive alarms are consolidated into a single alarms to further reduce the number of alarm events.

Key features include:

• real time notification of alarms
• consolidation of duplicate alarms
• automatic alarm recovery
• alarm acknowledgement and cancelation
• real time notification of changes in alarm status or acknowledgement by other users
• system wide and user defined alarm filters
• alarm counter for duplicate alarms
• real time visualization via table and map views
• alarm symbology based on alarm type and severity
• alarm reporting functions