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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fire alarm systems serve a vital purpose. But if installed incorrectly, they can fail to protect building occupants. Worse, some errors can increase the danger to ...

SimpliSafe was one of the original DIY home security upstarts, launching a system in 2009 that was wireless and that could be easily set up without a service technician. Now the company is far from ...