BRADENTON, Fla.—Just days before fire installers converged in Chicago for the NFPA show, GE Security announced June 3 that its mass notification emergency communication (MNEC) system is
the first to meet UL’s pending mass notification standard. It’s further evidence, GE executives say, that GE is poised to help its dealers take advantage of new mass notification business opportunities.
Robert Tockarshewsky, global marketing director, fire and security sector, confirmed that GE’s product is, in fact, the first to meet
hospitality, houses of worship, corporate facilities and performance venues will be interested in AVI-SPL’s video solutions.
Service is an important component of the offering, said Swiecicki. Frequently, customers want to have the very best sound, fire and security systems, “but in these economic times, they don’t have the capability to support and service the individual systems internally. They’re looking for a single, reliable outside source for service,” he said.
In an email interview Chris Bianchet of AVI-SPL said the partnership,“provides a way for AVI-SPL to increase our brand awareness, improve our reach to potential customers.” SSN
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the pending standard, called “the outline of investigation for pending UL 2572.”
“It’s a great story from a lot of different directions,” said Ted Milburn, GE Security product marketing manager Americas life safety and communications. GE’s mass notification solution, EST3-Sixty is based on its EST3 fire product “that’s been in the market for a long time.” There’s a large installed base already in the
market, Milburn said, so dealers “are well positioned to go back to existing projects and retrofit.”
In addition, GE has a large installed base of telephony systems in school systems around the country. Those systems can now be integrated with upgraded fire systems to create a mass notification system.
As expected, mass notification was a major theme of the June 8-11 NFPA show.
NFPA 2010 contains major changes having to do with mass notification.
The new code—which defines what a mass notification system actually is, and recommends that MNEC should be built upon fire systems—was approved at the NFPA conference. Many in the fire business believe these changes will mean more and new business opportunities for fire installers. SSN
proceedings. The en-Guage system integrates the fire and security systems wirelessly and alerts a control center if an extinguisher is tampered with, depressurized or obstructed. It also saves money for the state because monthly manual inspections are not required. John McSheffrey, president of en-Gauge, noted that “aside from SimplexGrinnell and en-Gauge, Inc., the install couldn’t have happened without the assistance of Inovonics, PACOM and Ansul, all who donated equipment to the project.” SSN
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advocate for taxpayers and believes the unions are the root of many of the state’s financial problems.
Trillo served as president of the Rhode Island Alarm Association in the 1970s and was one of the founders of the New England Alarm Convention. He has worked for the interests of the alarm industry in the Legislature, notably with fire code reforms.
His message to the alarm industry is to pay attention to what’s going on in government. A good way to do that is through state associations, he said. “Things can slip by [in the Legislature] and you don’t know about it until it’s too late. It’s much easier to stop something when it’s a bill … once it’s enacted it’s 10 times harder.” SSN
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