Today’s hospitals and specialized care facilities integrate a slew of building technologies to ensure all systems function as intended to provide state-of-the-art care for patients. Many of these ...

Fire alarm cabling has become incrementally more complex over the years, in part driven by the trend toward mass notification, which is a factor of the fire alarm system. Mass notification — a one- or ...

The fire alarm industry is full of rules. I’ve previously explained each of the six categories of rules, which apply, respectively, to manufacturers, what to install, how to install, to individuals, ...

D-Tools and FireCAD, powered by Inspect Point, have announced a forthcoming integration aimed at closing the gap between fire alarm system design and project management workflows. The integration will ...

Article 760 covers the installation of wiring and equipment for fire alarm systems. Residential smoke alarm systems, including interconnecting wiring, are not covered by Art. 760 because they are not ...

A fire alarm system is a crucial part of the fire and life safety of a building and its occupants. Fire alarm systems are compromised of several components, including initiating devices, notification ...

X-SENSE is designed to describe where a heat alarm could be used in conjunction with an existing fire protection system ...

Having a fire alarm in your garage is important, especially if your home has an attached garage or a garage near rooms where people sleep. Fires can spread quickly, and by the time a garage fire ...

Teledyne FLIR, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), today announced that its FLIR A40, A50 and A70 (Axx-Series) thermal imaging cameras are the first models to achieve UL 2684 ...