Conventional & Addressable Fire Alarm Systems

Fire Alarm Systems fall broadly in to two groups - Conventional Systems or Analogue Addressable Systems.

'Conventional' Fire Alarm Systems, in their various forms, have been around for many years and have changed little in that time in terms of technology although design and reliability have improved significantly. However, Conventional Systems are a well-proven technology protecting many hundreds of thousands of properties worldwide. A Conventional Fire Alarm System is often the natural choice for smaller systems or where budget constraints exist.

Analogue Addressable Fire Alarm Systems differ from conventional systems in a number of ways and certainly add more flexibility, intelligence, speed of identification and scope of control. For this reason Analogue Addressable Fire Alarm Systems are the natural choice for larger premises and more complex system requirements. Radio Fire Alarm Systems, Faelsafe’s radio based Wire-Free systems provide a number of unique features that make them an ideal alternative to wired systems for many applications.

• Sensors can be fitted in less than 10 minutes
• The fabric of the building is protected and undamaged
• Disruptive installation works are kept to a minimum
• Eliminates costly fire-rated cable
• The systems can be easily moved or upgraded as building use changes

Wire-Free solutions are suitable for installation in virtually any type of building or construction, easily matching, and in many cases exceeding, the performance of wired systems.

Aspirating Systems, The vast majority of fires start as very small shouldering fires and can remain like that for long periods of time. When the fire is very small it does not produce enough smoke or heat to set off a typical smoke detector. If you were alerted to the fire at this stage you could deal with it quickly and easily before any significant damage has been done.

Aspirating smoke detection systems can detect smoke at vastly lower densities than ordinary smoke detectors. They draw air into the sensing chamber rather than sitting passively in the air stream. The built in intelligence and the ability to "learn" its environment means that while an aspirating system can detect smoke at much lower densities it is not prone to false alarms. In essence this pre-fire alert buys you time - the critical factor affective fire emergencies. * Time to take corrective action. * Time to avoid the danger, the damage, and the disruption of fire.