Patent ID: 9569945
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G08B

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising: a plurality of fire detectors distributed throughout a secured geographic area; a monitoring panel that monitors each of the plurality of fire detectors; a status processor that periodically detects a status of each of the plurality of fire detectors and saves a status indicator for each of the plurality of fire detectors along with a time value, into a memory, wherein the status indicator for each of the plurality of fire detectors indicates a normal status, an alarm status, or a fault status for a respective one of the plurality of fire detectors, and wherein the fault status indicates failure of one of the plurality of fire detectors; an alarm processor of the monitoring panel that detects an alarm signal from an activated one of the plurality of fire detectors and presents an identifier of the activated one of the plurality of fire detectors on a geographic map of the secured geographic area shown on a display; and a fire progression processor that displays an indicator of a progression of a fire on the geographic map based upon the status indicator for each of the plurality of fire detectors saved in the memory and based upon a correlation between the status indicator for at least one of the plurality of fire detectors having the alarm status at a previous time period and the status indicator for the at least one of the plurality of fire detectors having the fault status at a more recent time period.