ARLINGTON, Mass.—American Alarm and Communications, a full-service security company based here, this week announced the acquisition of Security Design Consultants, based in Westwood, Mass. The ...

Even if you're not ready to take the plunge into fire alarm system design and installation just yet, you should still know the fundamentals in order to perform emergency work. This includes knowing ...

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 ...

In 1999, the Engineering Equipment and Materials Users’ Association (EEMUA) released its general guide to the design, management, and procurement of alarm systems for industrial plants. The guidance ...

NOTIFIER by Honeywell has introduced a new intelligent version of the FAAST (Fire Alarm Aspiration Sensing Technology) detector. This solution was designed to provide early warnings of smoke for ...

In 2009, the original version of ANSI/ISA-18.2, Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries, was published. It was further developed with ISA18 leadership into the IEC 62682:2014 ...

Hospital alarms play an important role in patient monitoring, but false alarms and multiple alarms going off at the same time can be challenging to manage—leading to alarm fatigue among nurses. New ...

Walter Kidde is recalling nearly half a million dual sensor smoke alarms that can fail to detect fires. The recall affects Kidde dual-sensor (photoelectric and ionization) smoke alarms. “KIDDE” is ...