The system stores the alarms into a database in order to identify and process those that show the equipment affected by the breakdown. The result of this analysis allow the user to visualize the equipment, represented in a georeferenced database, using different scales and colors depending on the severity of the alarm.

    Because the system data "knows" the network connectivity status, the major alarms (those that stop the network of operating) are then propagated toward the equipment descending on the network. It is then possible to find out which customers have been affected by the alarm. The system will automatically filter the alarms based on their severity (it will bring to the upper levels the alarm of the highest severity for a given view and/or region) and on the network topology. This principle can reduce the amount of reported alarms that are "downstream" in the network. If there's an important alarm in a given region, the system will filter out the lower priority ones, thus making the user analysis easier and faster.

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