Minimises false alarms

Posted on Friday 1 January 2010

Following news that the London Fire Brigade will now be charging firms for calling its firefighters out to false alarms, Call Systems Technology (CST) has a solution which the company says will put an end to expensive call out charges. Its AlarmCall Paging System gives designated fire marshals time to verify alarm activations before firefighters are called out.

AlarmCall is based on a paging system, which immediately notifies a company’s designated fire marshals, letting them know exactly where the potential fire is.

They then have a short period of time, agreed with the local Fire Service, in which to establish the validity of the alarm, prior to it reaching the ‘Call Out’ status.

One marshal then visits the source of the alarm, while the other goes on standby next to the central alarm panel. If, as in the case of 90% of fire alarms, the call is false, the marshals can communicate via phone or two way radio and the call out can be aborted.