Video and security technologies are quickly making a big splash in the fire prevention, detection, and verification industry. This is happening in several ways, which we have outlined below. These include: The Double Life of Video Surveillance Technology: Just a… Read More
Posts Tagged ‘NFPA 72’
Video Can Prove Valuable in Fire Applications
- January 13th, 2012
- Posted in ARK Systems, Security Image, Security Trends, surveillance cameras, surveillance monitoring
- Tags: According to National Fire Protection Agency, cameras that are components of video, component settings, crucial security, detection, detectors that use multiple sensing inputs, different types of protected premises fire alarm system, Dispatch operators, exit marking audible notification appliances, Facebook, False Alarms, fire alarm control units, Fire Detection Through Video Imaging, fire prevention, flame detection, heat detector response time, in-building enhancement systems for firefighter radio communications, installing video-based fire detection, large structures, large warehouses, new regulations, New Regulations and Guidelines, nfpa, NFPA 72, NFPA 72 allows video data, Origin and Development of NFPA 7, personnel qualification, separate connections, smoke detection in ducts, smoke detector spacing, software shall be protected from unauthorized changes, standards fire alarm technicians, synchronization of visible notification appliances, tactile notification appliances, The Double Life of Video Surveillance Technology, traditional detection methods, Twitter, unnecessary dispatches across the United States, verification industry, Video and security technologies, Video Can Prove Valuable in Fire Applications, video detection, Video Image Flame Detection (VIFD), video image smoke, Video Image Smoke Detection (VISD), Video image smoke detection systems shall comply with all of the applicable requirements of Chapters 1, video technology, view real-time
Curbing False Alarms
- May 27th, 2011
- Posted in Uncategorized
- Tags: ARK Systems, central monitoring station, CMS, Convergence, Convergence in fire alarm technology, Cost of POTS, Curbing False Alarms, dispatching police officers to the scene, Emergency, emergency response, enhanced verification, equipment malfunctions, False Alarms, False Alram, falsely announced break-ins, Fire Alarm, Fire Alarm technology, Greater coordination required, Internet Protocol, IP, IP communicators, IP fire alarm communicators, IT infrastructure, Maryland, mass notification emergency communication, National Fire Protection Association's National Fire Alarm Code, NFPA 72, plain old telephone system, Potential savings, POTS, Power backup for IT components, primary means of communicating, primary means of communication, receiving station, Reduce operating costs, Remote diagnostics, Save money, Savings, secondary means of communication, secure facilities, security, security personnel, security systems, Service Calls, Technology, Understand IT standards and practices
False alarms may not seem like a big deal. After all, a false alarm is better than an actual break in, right? Well yes and no. This article from SecuritySales.com explains just how disruptive false alarms can be. Of course… Read More
Convergence in fire alarm technology
- May 18th, 2011
- Posted in Uncategorized
- Tags: ARK Systems, Convergence, Convergence in fire alarm technology, Cost of POTS, Emergency, emergency response, Fire Alarm, Fire Alarm technology, Greater coordination required, Internet Protocol, IP, IP communicators, IP fire alarm communicators, IT infrastructure, Maryland, mass notification emergency communication, National Fire Protection Association's National Fire Alarm Code, NFPA 72, plain old telephone system, Potential savings, POTS, Power backup for IT components, primary means of communicating, primary means of communication, receiving station, Reduce operating costs, Remote diagnostics, Save money, Savings, secondary means of communication, secure facilities, security, security personnel, security systems, Service Calls, Technology, Understand IT standards and practices
As the security industry quickly adopted the use of IT infrastructure and systems into its physical security, the fire alarm industry was much slower to grab on to the new concept of “convergence.” Code changes to the 2007 National Fire… Read More