Alarm panel — engines, AMS, hotel BMS, fire & security

Every alarm on every vessel — engine ECU, alarm monitoring system (AMS), hotel building-management system, fire detection, and security — streams into one panel on the Bridge.

What you see:
• Active alarms at the top, sorted by severity (Critical → High → Medium → Low → Info)
• Each row: vessel, system, alarm code, message, fired-at timestamp, acknowledged / unacknowledged badge
• Acknowledge → marks it as seen (audit logged with user + timestamp)
• Resolve → marks it cleared (separate from acknowledge — alarms can be acked but still active)

Why severity colour matters:
The OOW glances at the panel from across the wheelhouse. A wall of red is unmistakable; a single amber band is comfortable. We use the same colour code SOLAS bridge alarm systems use so it's already familiar.

Unacked-for-N-minutes escalation:
If a high-severity alarm goes unacked for 5 minutes, it fires a notification to the chief engineer (or master, depending on system). Configurable per vessel.

Cross-feed to Fleet:
A confirmed equipment alarm (e.g. main engine high exhaust temperature) automatically files a Defect on the vessel's Fleet record so it doesn't get lost when the watch changes.