Fully modular and digital smoke vent control panel.

• Integrated ACB technology creates new communication between drive and control panel.
• System setup due to connection of several control panels via AdComNet.
• Nothing is easier than installing and retrofitting with the wireless rail-mounted plug-&-play system.

A typical scene from an action film: Flames are everywhere. The hero is battling through fire and smoke. He will rescue the damsel in distress, who has already endured half an eternity in the flames. In real life, people almost never experience a fire, so these images from the film industry shape their perceptions. Or better yet: their false perceptions. When scared by fire in a film you may lose your breath for a moment. When caught in an areal fire, you are three breaths away from losing consciousness. That is because the smoke can contain carbon monoxide, hydrochloric acid or even cyanide compounds. Only three breaths of this highly toxic gas are enough to cause you to lose consciousness. The only chance for a real happy ending is to have effective smoke and heat exhaust ventilation (SHEV). These systems channel toxic combustion gases away in case of fire. This creates escape routes with little smoke and clears your airways. The customised solutions from D+H provide a variety of tested drives, control systems and components. When these work together, they enable smoke and heat exhaust ventilation that is cost-effective and reliable. The innovative CPS-M SHEV control panel heralds a new dimension in safety and security technology. It ensures that the hot, rising air from the fire escapes. Emergency routes are cleared of the majority of smoke within seconds, which creates escape routes. The fire brigade can advance toward the source of the fire. In addition, extracting the heat prevents thermal stress on the building structure. That can prevent the building from collapsing.

Digital, high performance and cost-effective: The fully modular CPS-M smoke vent control panel unifies the most important requirements for modern smoke extraction systems. It vastly increases building safety standards thanks to intelligent networking and is extremely cost-efficient and flexible due to reduced line routing and its compact design. The CPS-M modules consist of functional and base assemblies and are mounted on a TS 35 tophat rail: The principle here is plug-and-play. Depending on the requirements of the building project and the customer's wishes, the size of the control panel and the control cabinet can be adjusted and subsequent expansion is straightforward. The control panel provides an output current in 20 A increments up to a nearly unlimited maximum current. Connection to third-party peripherals and other subsections can be established conventionally using the various configurable inputs and outputs, as well as using the bus interface and corresponding gateways. As a result, it is possible for intrusion and fire alarm systems, heating, light and ventilation systems to interact.

How smoke and heat exhaust ventilation works:
As soon as smoke appears in a closed room, our fire detectors detect this. They send the fire signal to the digital CPS-M smoke vent control panel. This evaluates the signal in a fraction of a second and gives the window that drives the command to open. That means that this system is truly faster than the fire brigade. Depending on the fire compartment, openings for exhaust air and supply air are opened in a fully automatic process. This includes skylights, flaps and windows. In situations like this, a chain drive or rack and pinion drive quickly and reliably handles difficult movements.

Smart and innovative: communication and controller:
Alongside the CPS-M smoke vent control panel, D+H has also introduced the Advanced Communication Bus (ACB) technology. The Integration of ACB enables bidirectional communication between the control panel and drives. This means that the control panel also receives information about the positions and conditions of the window drives. Using the ACB, up to 20 drives are connected to the CPS-M using just one group connector and one cable. Using conventional controllers requires laying an additional cable and using an additional group connector for every window that was supposed to be separately controlled. Reducing wiring and cutting down on the number of modules provides a major cost advantage. Yet another benefit of the CPS-M: Functions and dependencies can be integrated into the controller quite easily using the SCS software. AdComNet (AdvancedCommunication Network) is the internal bus communication system that the CPS-M uses. It combines communication data into a single, comprehensive system and enables the communication between additional CPS-M control panels or controllers of the theRZN-M Series. A special highlight is the autonomous communication of the system. In addition, having VdS approval makesAdComNet one of the few certified SHEV bus systems on the market. In short, with the intelligent CPS-M you have a flexible and cost-effective system solution that already fulfils all prEN12101-9 standard requirements. In the future, you will see that only one thing in your building will take your breath away: our innovation.

Service and Configuration – all in one Software Program:
The SCS software from D+H is designed to be so easy to use that you can configure smoke compartments with just a few clicks. For the CPS-M digital smoke vent control panel and for all other products, you can conveniently combine groups and lines in SHEV operation into smoke compartments via drag-and-drop. You can do so from any desired location in a network. Using the SCS Software, each individual ACB-capable drive can be added separately into SHEV and ventilation operations. Through these“virtual groupings”, each drive receives its individual drive commands and issues status information. 

The advantages:

• Increases custom configuration options
• Cuts costs for additional actuator modules for the CPS-M
• Makes the control panel system even more streamlined
• Reduces the amount of wiring

The precision control on the window is also simple using SCS Software. Using the perfect positioning control, you can open and close ACB drives down to the millimetre. This applies for both individual drives and for entire groups for natural ventilation. In summer, do you want to open the windows just a little or would you rather carry out automated ventilation by fully opening windows? In terms of technology, the positioning signals and position feedback are transmitted via AdComNet/Modbus gateway. You can find a detailed overview of all transmissions, faults and alarm notifications using extensive filter options in the sophisticated event buffer in CPS-M