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 ...

A level-by-level guide to home security, from simple sensors to prestige-protection ...

For many fire departments false fire alarms have become a nuisance and have lead to changes in response policies due to the number of alarms. The response may limit the number of units on the initial ...

The reference design for a battery-powered smart alarm system (SAS) employs artificial intelligence (AI)-based sensor fusion algorithm that complements acoustic event detection (AED) processing with a ...

As an alarm rationalization tool designed to take the guesswork out of alarm system design, SILAlarm supports compliance with the ISA18.2 alarm management standard and good engineering practices. It ...

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 ...

A document outlining a strategy for the future of intruder alarm system design and installation has been launched by the British Security Industry Association's Security Systems Section at IFSEC 2005.

Time and again, cybersecurity professionals have struggled to navigate so-called "perfectly designed" security systems — not due to a lack of effort but to a fundamental design flaw. These systems ...