System Sensor ECS and MNS Devices
System Sensor ECS and MNS devices and accessories include all the versatility and benefits of the entire SpectrAlert® Advance line, including a family look, plug-in designs, universal mounting plates...
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Know the Needs, Respect the Risks
Ask the Expert by Scott Lacey Scott Lacey understands that for a mass notification system (MNS) to work, the stakeholders who know the ins and outs of the facility must be heavily involved in design...
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Integrating ECS into Fire Systems
Fire and life safety systems are well positioned to incorporate emergency communications and mass notification messaging. NFPA 72-2010 offers more specific guidance on how all the pieces should work...
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Calculating Acceptable Risk
Those of us in the business of protecting lives and property aren’t big risk takers. Property owners, engineers and contractors know they can get burned – literally – if they approve fire and life...
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System Sensor ECS and MNS devices and accessories include all the versatility and benefits of the entire SpectrAlert® Advance line, including a family look, plug-in designs, universal mounting plates...
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Know the Needs, Respect the Risks
Ask the Expert by Scott Lacey Scott Lacey understands that for a mass notification system (MNS) to work, the stakeholders who know the ins and outs of the facility must be heavily involved in design...
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Integrating ECS into Fire Systems
Fire and life safety systems are well positioned to incorporate emergency communications and mass notification messaging. NFPA 72-2010 offers more specific guidance on how all the pieces should work...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Calculating Acceptable Risk
Those of us in the business of protecting lives and property aren’t big risk takers. Property owners, engineers and contractors know they can get burned – literally – if they approve fire and life...
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A Sound Off on Tone
By Roopa Shortt, Audible Visible Marketing Manager, System Sensor Through our work developing products and meeting intelligibility code requirements with our audible life safety systems, we’ve long...
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Can you hear it now?
NFPA 72®: 2010 and 2013 require notification appliances for many sleeping areas to emit a 520 Hz square wave. Intended initially for individuals who had trouble hearing higher frequency tones, new...
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Bringing NFPA 72 520 Hz into Focus
Ask the Expert with Wayne D. Moore Hughes Associates, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, is a fire protection engineering and code-consulting firm with regional offices throughout the world. Wayne...
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Presbyterian Tower at OU Medical Center
Loud and Clear Environment of Care Hospital System Improves Emergency Response. As the only Level One Trauma Center in Oklahoma, OU Medical Center (OUMC) provides the highest level of care while...
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SpectrAlert Advance Emergency Communications Devices
Meet ECS and mass notification system (MNS) requirements using your existing fire system and SpectrAlert Advance audible visible devices from System Sensor – the world leader in life safety...
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United Illuminating Headquarters
Energy Distribution Campus Hones Power of ECS System Sensor Devices meet challenging ECS requirements for energy company’s sprawling campus. When officials at the United Illuminating Co., a New Haven,...
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Risk Analyses, Emergency Plans Impact ECS Design
Ask the Expert with Ray Grill Ray Grill, PE, FSFPE, LEED AP, knows his way around fire and life safety design, especially when it comes to integrating mass notification (MNS) and emergency...
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Bridging the Gap: Realities of Integrating Fire and ECS
Bringing together all types of emergency communications and messaging systems can save lives, but there are big challenges to overcome first. Over the past few years, there has been a lot of discussion...
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‘Get Out’ a New Plan for Messaging
By Rebecca Peterson, AV Product Marketing Manager, System Sensor “If only we had known” is a common refrain after a tragedy. We wish we knew what was in store for us ahead of time so that we could plan...
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