Is an automated continuous monitoring system required for fire safety in Maharashtra?

33. After Form Y, the following Appendix shall be added, namely : ...

(b) Digital Maintenance and Record Keeping of Fire Fighting Installation and Equipment. These can be achieved by adopting following procedure guidelines,- (i) Providing minimum Digital Inputs and Analog Inputs depending upon the system requirement.

(ii) Machine to Machine communication by following MQTTS Protocol which will send the Data. MQTTS Protocol to send the Data to cloud portal on real time basis.

(iii) Connectivity to Cloud Using 4G/5G and above or Ethernet or WiFi or any other reliable wired or wireless medium which will receive data from IoT gateway at every 1 min interval.

(iv) Cloud will also send an alarm via SMS if no data is received from the IoT gateway for more than 15 mins. Cloud portal should generate alarm in case data is not received for more than specified time so we can ensure reliability on IoT system.

(v) Gateway should have UPS power and shall have a backup of up to 7 hrs in case of power failure.

(vi) Gateway shall have an in-built capacity to store a minimum 10000 event logs.

(vii) It should have real time clock to save data along with time stamp.

(viii) Reports like data report and alarm report should be available from cloud portal.

(ix) SMS and email alerts option should be available real time basis.

(x) Events should be stored in the Open-Source Database. Uptime should be at least 99%.