Fire Alarm Networking Solution

Background

Organizations that own, control, or manage multiple facilities or buildings such as businesses, universities, and government entities are often faced with the challenge of managing and communicating problems such as fires.  Remote and dispersed sites often include one or more independently operating fire alarm control panels.  Communication between these various fire alarm panels are most often configured in a ring topology or bus topology using a token passing protocol.  This presents issues when electronic communication components fail as it becomes difficult to pinpoint where the fault occurred – many times the faults are cascaded throughout all the communication components.

This patented technology decreases response time for emergencies due to fire and connects multiple buildings into one connected system.

Benefits

• New “tree” topology
• Uses fewer electronic components
• Simplifies troubleshooting to a single building
• Time of troubleshooting and network down time is significantly reduced
• Provide redundancy/multiple pathways for each network
• Uses less fiber (1 pair per building instead of 2 in ring/tree topology)
• Efficient and low maintenance system

Applications

• Fire Alarm System to manage multiple facilities or building such as businesses, property management groups, universities, colleges, or government entities
• Opportunity to retrofit existing buildings as well as new construction

Last updated: June 2021