It’s a bit strange sometimes to be in an industry where you sell products that no one hopes to ever use. Of course, people understand the value in being prepared.
What people do have difficulty understanding at times is how to prepare for events that threaten people and property. The problem often lies in being creative enough to conceive of the possible emergencies: If you don’t know what you could face, it’s harder to plan.
Although it’s easy to see the possibility of a tenant starting a fire by dropping a cigarette in a trash can, it’s more troubling and difficult to plan for extraordinary or less easily foreseeable events. Northern Illinois University (NIU), for example, used what it learned from the shootings at Virginia Tech University to model its own mass notification plans. NIU officials recognize, however, that although their plans were as sufficient as anyone could expect for the type of tragedy that occurred on their campus this past February, their plans might not have been adequate if a more complex scenario had unfolded.
The creative minds at System Sensor explore a wide range of possibilities when designing and developing fire and life safety systems. We are always considering how to incorporate advanced features into our products to be ready for a variety of emergencies. Advancements such as adding voice capability to our ExitPoint™ directional egress system and providing multi-colored lens attachments for our notification products to denote different emergencies are just two of the ways we’re meeting that challenge.
Other examples are the Advanced Multi-Criteria Fire Detector and the CO1224T Carbon Monoxide (CO) Detector with RealTest®.
The Advanced Multi-Criteria Fire Detector combines four sensor types into one product to detect all types of fires and intelligently discern between actual fires and nuisance conditions. This approach removes the guesswork and compromises that can come with specifying more single-focused devices for critical, yet difficult-to-read, environments.
The CO1224T includes RealTest®, a first-of-its-kind functional test for the detector’s CO sensing cell. This new technology enables anyone to quickly test if the detector is providing the protection it promises with a short spray of canned CO.
These are just four of the many ways System Sensor is using the creative application of technology to meet the potential demands on our fire and life safety systems. You can count on System Sensor to continue delivering technologies that will keep you prepared… just in case.
Jeff Klein
Vice President of Marketing
System Sensor U.S.
Tags: Carbon monoxide, Editorial, Mass Notification
Posted in Carbon Monoxide Detection, Editorial, Education, Intelligent Detection, Winter 2008
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