The Intrusion Subcommittee maintains and promotes standards dealing with residential and commercial intrusion panels and communication between protected premises and monitoring stations. CP-01 and the SIA DC family of standards is maintained and new intrusion standards are developed and published under this subcommittee.

Accomplishments

  • 2019 CP-01 revision which includes informative signals for mobile alarm validation
  • DC-09 Communications Protocol for Monitoring and DC-07 revisions
  • DC-05 Digital Communication – Contact ID Protocol

News, Events & Information

In a recent mailing to the members of the SIA Intrusion Standards Subcommittee, a number of business items were addressed:

• Four requests for interpretation, regarding the CP-01 and DC-09 standards
• An updated draft of DC-09
• A schedule for upcoming committee activity

Requests for Interpretation
SIA received five responses on the requests for interpretation, one of which was an abstention. Here are the otherwise unanimous results for the requests:

Regarding: DC-09 5.5.1.2 CRC
Question: Can the CRC value in the DC-09 message be transmitted in two bytes?
Committee Answer: NO

Regarding: CP-01 4.2.2.6 Recent Closing
Question: Are the Entry Exit zone types to be excluded from Recent Closing functionality?
Committee Answer: NO

Regarding: CP-01 4.2.2.6 Recent Closing (Issue 2)
Question 1: Is it the trigger of Entry/Exit zones that needs to happen within 2 mins for the Recent
Close event to appear?
Committee Answer: NO

Question 2: Is it the alarm (post-entry time expiry) of Entry/Exit zones that needs to happen within 2
mins for the Recent Close event to appear?
Committee Answer: YES

Regarding: CP-01 Regarding 4.4.3 Restoration of Power
Question: Can the retention of panel arming state for fourteen (14) days as required in paragraph
4.4.3 (Restoration of Power) be tested independently from the testing described in
verification procedure 28?
Committee Answer: YES

Responses were received from:
• Larry Dischert, LRD Consulting for Tyco/JCI
• Richard Simpson, Vice President Technical Services for Vector Security
• Ron Walters, Director for SIAC (abstained)
• Ted Nesse for North Latitude Technology, LLC
• Lou Chavez, Security and Life Safety, Principal Engineer (PDE) for UL

The details for these requests can be seen in the attached forms. (The deadline to return these ballots has passed – they are attached for informational purposes only.)

DC-09 Update – Additional Update Proposals Due December 1, 2020
We’ve received a request to add several extensions to DC-09, and this draft was emailed to committee members with a request to return comments on the proposed changes, along with any additional proposals for change, to the SIA office (Attn: Joseph Gittens) by December 1, 2020. A copy of this draft is also attached to this news item.

Schedule for Upcoming Committee Activity
Here is the schedule we’ll be following for some upcoming business:

  • February 15, 2021: Close DC-09 comment period, start DC-09 document update
  • February 22, 2021: Online meeting of the Intrusion Committee to discuss DC-09 comments, and other business as appropriate
  • March 1, 2021: Send out the final draft of DC-09 2021 for review and approval
  • March 31, 2021: Ballots for approval of SIA DC-09 2021 due
 

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