Beyond applications with persistent nuisance conditions, such as entertainment complexes, food preparation areas, and public lodging facilities, the Advanced Multi-Criteria Fire Detector is also ideal for applications that cannot tolerate nuisance alarms at any time, including:

Medical Facilities

In a medical setting, providing the earliest possible warning to protect patients, doctors, and equipment from smoke and fire is crucial, yet nuisance alarms can be life threatening to patients receiving critical care.

Financial Institutions

For these institutions, any downtime resulting from nuisance alarms can interrupt mission critical processes and result in huge financial losses.

Chemical and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

For chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturers, nuisance alarms can lead to significant revenue losses from shutdowns that result in lost production time (perhaps millions of units per hour) and raw materials that must be scrapped after a stop/restart.

Data Centers

These centers require the earliest possible fire detection to protect equipment and crucial data. Nuisance alarms, however, can result in extensive financial losses and lost productivity across connected organizations.

Tags: Multi-criteria Detection

Posted in Commercial, Cover Features, Intelligent Detection, Winter 2009

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