ADT Fire & Security says its latest fire detection solution innovation, Generation 6 Detection Technology, offers ‘unique functionality and additional benefits’ to provide speedier installation, more efficient programming, and ‘a superb detector lifespan between service changes’.
Generation 6 detectors feature a remote wireless link built into the housing, enabling two-way communication with the new 850EMT Engineering Management Tool. Reportedly an industry first, this allows engineers and service technicians to adjust settings and parameters using the simple hand-held device without having to manually access each detector. ADT explained: “In applications with numerous detectors or access issues, this offers time savings, and makes installation and programming of the detectors significantly safer, by allowing engineers to work at ground level.” The new range is said to offer ‘superior detection performance, greater fault tolerance, and improved environmental protection’. ‘Advanced design, manufacture, and use of new algorithms’ are said to give a 10-year lifespan for carbon monoxide detectors between service changes, and a 20 year lifespan for smoke detectors – ‘twice the industry average at half the cost’.
