Passive integration definition

To facilitate later discussions, this chapter first discusses passive and active building protection and introduces the committee s definitions of levels of protection. Second, it reviews the options that could be used in building protection. Finally, it discusses how to integrate various protective measures to provide different levels of protection to buildings of different types and designs and considers the limitations of each level of protection. 

Many companies improve integration by enabling departments to look into the data generated elsewhere. This access to data across departments is the current standard definition for integration. Information is entered once — perhaps into the sales system. This is important progress but it is still passive. People have to identify conditions demanding decisionmaking action. To do this, they use their experience and their own personal rules of thumb. 

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