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Choosing Fire Alarm Systems for Commercial Buildings

For commercial buildings, fire alarm systems are required by law - although exact requirements vary by your location. An appropriate fire alarm system should be selected and installed in accordance with applicable fire safety codes.

Fire Alarm Panel Monitoring: What You Must Do to Protect Staff and the Public

Monitoring fire alarm panels is an essential part of fire safety on any premises. It allows for early detection of a potential fire, automated responses, and dispatch of first responders and other emergency services.

FACP Purchase and Maintenance Bids for City Governments

Today, I'm again looking at recent bid results related to fire alarm monitoring. Rather than speaking only in general about fire panel prices, I'll show you two specific examples from published bid documents.

Fire Alarm Installation & Inspection Prices

If you have a building that needs a fire detection and prevention system, you'll inevitably have to pay for installations and inspections. How do you know what price is appropriate for these services?

Price to Install Fire Alarm Monitoring Systems

How much should you be paying for install labor on a fire alarm monitoring system? As I frequently remind clients during an equipment discussion, installation labor can cost as much as or even more than the price of the actual equipment.

What is a Central Station for Fire Alarm Monitoring?

Just as with all aspects of telecommunications, there were once simpler times. If you go back about 60 years, you'll see that fire/police agencies would directly receive alarm notifications from businesses, college campuses, and other facilities.

How Much Does a Fire Panel Cost in 2023?

You need fire panels for all of your buildings where required by fire code, but how much should you really be paying to buy (and install) these fire protection devices?

Mircom FX-2000 & FX-4000 Monitoring Overview

Let's take a look at the basics of Mircom and its FX-series fire alarm panels. After we cover the fundamentals, I'll show you more precisely how a mediator like Muxpad can interact smoothly with your Mircom FACP.

Hochiki FireNET Plus FACP Monitoring Overview

We've worked to engineer support for the Hochiki fire panels you may have installed in your system. That's true of both our Muxpad device (which collects printer-port alarm data from Hochiki fire panels) and our Prism LX (which can be your central collection and alarm display server).

Monitor Your Fire Panel (FACP) via Printer Port (ASCII)

For fire panels, especially older ones, one of the most common ways for alarm data to be emitted is via a traditional printer port. While this used to literally result in a printed paper record, it's now much more popular to display the ASCII text (raw or processed) on your fire alarm display screen.