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Building management systems - Fire Alarms

Building management systems - Fire Alarms

Building management systems - Fire Alarms

(OP)
I hope that you can help - I have a query.

I am looking at a centralised team that monitors buildings remotely - the alarms that we handle come in from a dedicated BMS panel and as you can imagine we handle a significant number of alarms or rather activations as thankfully the majority of activations are not real alarms.

We did a study on this and found that if we put in a delay then we could have a significant reduction of spurious to our system. It may appear to be the ideal solution but I have a couple of concerns - the majority of the buildings are uk based and I am wary of adding a delay if this would contravene any building regulations.

I know its not the actual alarm that is being altered but rather the repeater - if say a minute was added then this would provide a positive reduction to handled alarms back at the monitoring point.

RE: Building management systems - Fire Alarms

What do your codes say?? 30 seconds seems reasonable to me UNLESS you are ON FIRE. It is a calculated risk either way.

RE: Building management systems - Fire Alarms

(OP)
The codes appear to definbe the actual alarm system - as that is there for safety then there isnt much that you can do on that angle, but as the monitoring is excactly that a monitoring function then there is no recommendation or guidance out there - the monitoring is remote and they wont call the fire brigade out etc. Its used to detect an abnormality that may impact on the network functionality of the site being monitored.

It is a risk as you say, and knowing the uk with the way they like to control risks.....!

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