Duress alarms, shown on the floor plan.
VAD runs on a display mounted where your staff already are. Press a duress button anywhere on site and the screen takes over — full-screen, colour-coded, with the device flashing in the room it came from.
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Any signal. Any system.One clear alert.
VAD is a standalone alerting display. It takes an input from your security, access or I/O system and turns it into something nobody on the floor can miss. Built for places where a beep from a panel in a cupboard is not enough.
Full-screen visual alerts
When an input trips, VAD takes over the whole display — large, colour-coded and impossible to walk past. Red for critical, amber for warnings, green for all-clear.
Audible alarm tones
Built-in tones fire alongside the visual alert, so an event is heard as well as seen. Configurable per device and per alert type.
Floor plan layout
Upload your building's floor plan and position each device icon on it. Staff see exactly where an alert is firing — no guessing, no cross-referencing a list of zone numbers.
SMS to five contacts
Alerts go out to up to five named recipients through any SMS gateway — your own API URL, credentials, key and sender ID. Enabled per device, with a test message before handover.
Fully offline
VAD runs entirely on the device with no internet dependency. Suited to secure networks and isolated sites — if the line drops, the panel keeps doing its job.
Alerts stay up until they're dealt with
An alert stays active until the input resets and a staff member presses Reset. Nothing clears itself quietly while no one is looking.
Panic button. Fire door.What actually happens.
Two events, start to finish, exactly as VAD handles them on a live site.
A staff member presses the hardwired duress button under their desk. They do not have to say anything, leave the room, or reach for a phone.
Physical trigger
The hardwired duress button sends a signal to the I/O controller on the network.
VAD detects the change
VAD polls the controller continuously and catches the state change on the next cycle.
The display takes over
Every connected display switches to a full-screen red critical alert, naming the device and flashing it on the floor plan. The tone sounds at the same time.
SMS goes out
If that device has SMS alerts enabled, a message goes to your listed contacts so someone offsite knows too.
A fire exit is pushed open — someone leaving, or someone who should not be coming in. Not a duress event, but not something to find out about tomorrow either.
Door contact opens
The magnetic contact breaks when the door is pushed, and the input changes state on the controller.
Warning, not critical
The alert is colour-coded amber rather than red, so staff can tell at a glance what kind of event it is before they read a word.
The door is named on the plan
The device shows in its own position with the name you gave it, so there is no working out which of six fire doors it was.
It stays up
The warning holds on screen until the door closes and a staff member presses Reset.
Both events have been dealt with. Clearing the panel is deliberate, and it is one button.
The input resets
The duress button is reset and the fire door closes. The controller reports both inputs back to normal.
The alert still holds
VAD does not clear on its own. An event that nobody saw is an event that did not do its job.
A staff member presses Reset
One button, across the bottom of the screen, reachable by anyone on the floor without a password.
Back to the floor plan
The display returns to the plan with every device green, ready for the next one.
Duress activated.Camera comes up.
Any device in VAD can have a live camera stream linked to it. The moment that zone goes into alarm the stream comes up on screen — so staff see what they are walking into, without touching anything or switching apps.
Per-device stream linking
Each device slot has its own camera URL. Different zones, different cameras, configured independently.
Brand builder — URL generator
Pick your camera brand, enter the IP, and VAD builds the RTSP URL for you. No hand-assembling stream paths on site.
Any RTSP camera
Works with Axis, Hanwha, Hikvision, Dahua and Uniview — or anything else that gives you an RTSP stream URL.
Part of the Premium solution
Camera pop-up comes with Premium deployments. Basic deployments include every alert and floor plan feature, without camera integration.
Camera manufacturers listed for compatibility only. VAD is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any of them.
It reads fromwhat you already have.
VAD polls the controller and paints the change on the plan. These are the input sources working today.
Inputs are the part that gets extended. If a site runs something not on this list, ask — it is usually a question of whether the system will talk, not whether VAD will.
Product names and logos are the property of their owners, shown to indicate compatibility. VAD is an independent product.
Set up on site,then locked down.
Everything below is in version 2.0.1, behind a password so the display can live in a public area.
Devices
Name each device the way staff talk about it — "Consult 2", not "Input 6". Turn devices on and off, set how large the icon sits on the plan, and per device link a camera stream and switch SMS alerting on.
Floorplan
Load your own plan — a drawing, an export, a render, whatever the site has — then place each device where it actually is. Swap the image later without touching anything else.
IP
Point VAD at the I/O controller's address and test the connection before you leave. If the controller drops off the network the display says so, rather than sitting there looking healthy.
Password
Settings sit behind a password set on site. The alert screen and Reset stay usable by anyone; the configuration does not.
SMS
Up to five recipients by name and number, sent through your own gateway — URL, credentials, API key and sender ID are all yours. Send a test message before handover.
License
Licensed per display and tied to that unit's device ID. Already activated when it arrives.
A complete solution,ready to deploy.
VAD is supplied as a finished unit — hardware pre-configured, software installed and licensed, ready to mount and go live. No build, no technical setup at your end.
One VAD display unit — tablet or large-screen TV box — pre-configured and ready to mount. Suits a single reception, security point or control room.
- Pre-configured display hardware
- VAD installed and licensed
- Floor plan setup assistance
- Full-screen visual and audible alerts
- SMS alerts to up to five contacts
- Works with Inception, Tecom and Moxa
Multiple units across the facility — offices, corridors, security stations and control rooms — all pre-configured and ready to deploy.
- Multiple pre-configured units
- Everything in Single Display
- Camera stream per display zone
- On-site setup and commissioning
- Volume pricing available
- Priority ongoing support
Large display? The same software runs on an Android TV box driving a wall-mounted screen, which is the usual choice for control rooms and corridors where a tablet is too small to read.
Tell us about the site.
What's installed, what you're trying to cover, and how many displays. If VAD is not the right fit we will say so.
- support@visualalertdisplay.com.au
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- Wandering Bear
- BASED IN
- Gold Coast, Queensland
- CURRENT VERSION
- VAD 3.0.1 for Android