Patent attributes
An apparatus is provided that includes a control panel of a security system that protects a secured geographic area, a plurality of sensors, a plurality of annunciators, a processor that wirelessly exchanges information with the sensors and the annunciators based upon a timing table defining a repeating superframe having a plurality of non-overlapping time periods including at least one response period, at least one request period, and at least one silent period, a processor of the control panel that transmits an activation message to one of the plurality of annunciators within the response period of a first of the plurality of non-overlapping time periods, and a processor of the one of the plurality of annunciators that processes the activation message and directly synchronizes an audio or visible output of the one of the plurality of annunciators to a subsequent one of the plurality of non-overlapping time periods.
