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Old 31st Dec 2013, 09:04
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Tullamarine had a problem with false calls for non existent fire alarms.
it was eventually traced to a weakness in the implementation of the modbus protocol used in the control system. the packet sequence got out of whack at times of high traffic because of the software comms error. ...a programming error that had existed for some time but had never manifested.

it would be frustrating beyond belief for the airport.
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