The Standard AlarmPoint Model is centered around the Normal, Activated, Acknowledged
and Deactivated states, and the triggers "activate", "deactivate",
and "acknowledge".
The following matrix details the resulting grid.
| Initial State | Trigger | Resulting State | Event Generated |
| Normal | activate | Activated | activation |
| Normal | deactivate | Normal | - |
| Normal | acknowledge | Normal | - |
| Activated | activate | Activated | - |
| Activated | deactivate | Deactivated | deactivation |
| Activated | acknowledge | Acknowledged | acknowledge |
| Deactivated | activate | Activated | activation |
| Deactivated | deactivate | Deativated | - |
| Deactivated | acknowledge | Normal | acknowledge |
| Acknowledged | activate | Acknowledged | - |
| Acknowledged | deactivate | Normal | deactivation |
| Acknowledged | acknowledge | Acknowledged | - |