allarmv

Allarmv is a protocol and software library designed to standardize the creation, routing, and display of alarm events in distributed systems. Developed for use in industrial automation, building automation, and enterprise monitoring, Allarmv aims to provide a consistent lifecycle for alarms from generation to resolution and audit.

The specification centers on a lightweight event model and a flexible transport layer. An alarm event includes fields such as id, timestamp, source, severity, category, message, status, and optional escalation and due date. Alarms progress through a simple state machine: new, acknowledged, in_progress, resolved, and closed. The protocol supports pluggable transports, with MQTT, HTTP(S), and WebSocket implementations commonly used. It favors JSON-based payloads for readability and a compact binary encoding for high-throughput scenarios.

Allarmv emphasizes interoperability and multi-tenant security. It defines a schema registry for custom fields, role-based access control, and an extensible localization mechanism for messages. It also provides audit trails, event correlation IDs, and time synchronization considerations to support incident investigations.

Historical context: Allarmv emerged in community-driven projects in the late 2010s as a pragmatic alternative to ad-hoc alarm schemes. While not adopted as a formal international standard, it has informed several open-source monitoring stacks and vendor-specific alarm modules, and remains active in hobbyist and industrial toolchains.

See also: alarm management, incident management, MQTT, JSON, event-driven architecture.