PSI June2017

FIRE SAFETY
Fire safety management... the future is virtual
Taktis Fire is an all-new
range of fire detection
control equipment
alse alarm callouts are
Fextremely costly in terms of
time, money, and disruption to
occupiers, and not least to fire
alarm maintenance and service
providers. In 2015/16 they made up
nearly 40% of all the incidents
attended by fire and rescue services
in England and Wales. They can be
costly to businesses and to the fire
and rescue services too, with
around £1 billion being wasted on
them each year in the UK. Yet, many of these
problems could be efficiently minimized by
remote diagnostics that fully exploit the power
of the Internet and mobile communications,
allowing predictive monitoring and servicing by
fire alarm maintenance and service providers
spotting potential problems before they arise.
Fresh perspectives reap
significant benefits
The team leader of a recent five-year project,
who pioneered remote troubleshooting
techniques for system monitoring and
diagnostics that generated over £2m savings a
year, says: 'It's a change in mentality, because
we can now pull up all the information and
interrogate problems, without ever having to
leave the building.' This innovative remote
overview of systems resulted in a 75 percent
reduction in diagnostic time and considerable
savings in service and maintenance costs.
Virtual overview of building
services
The potential for Fire Safety solutions being
integrated with building systems management
and maintenance is immense. Its purpose is to
control, monitor and optimize building services
whose scope you encounter every working day:
Lighting; Heating; Security, CCTV and Alarm
systems; Access Control; Audio-Visual and
Entertainment systems; Ventilation, Filtration
and Climate control, etc.; even Time &
Attendance control and reporting (notably staff
attendance, movement and availability).
And it is this potential for integrating Fire
Safety System design and Building Management
that has driven the latest development in Life
Safety System Management; Kentec's leading
edge Taktis fire safety technology that is already
exciting fire professionals, building systems and
facility managers.
Powerful and sophisticated, yet simple to use
and understand, this entirely new management
platform combines the very latest hardware and
software to produce a control and indication
system that's designed to add value to System
Designer, Integrator, Service provider and the
end user.
Using today's most advanced technology,
this revolutionary platform brings a greater
flexibility to allow users to reconfigure a system
with ease to realize many control and indication
applications, with future direct integration into
'intelligent' buildings.
Seamless integration and interconnectivity
Taktis Vision - Taktis Vision provides a means of allowing full display and optional control of the
Taktis fire alarm control panel from a small and unobtrusive local control station. Based on an all
new hardware and software platform, the large, full colour graphical display with touch screen
functionality, delivers information on the status of the fire alarm system to single or multiple
locations.
Taktis Virtual Resource - There’s more to come with Virtual Resource suite of software tools,
which will be able to deliver a whole new dimension in Life Safety System Management, giving
System Designers, Integrators and Service Companies the ability to remotely access and
comprehensively manage any system using intelligent analysis of data collected from those
systems. End-users and Facilities managers will also greatly benefit from the powerful application-based tool set featured by Virtual Resource.
Scaleable, future-proofed solution - Taktis fire systems are scalable with Taktis Net Enhanced High Speed Networking. This allows up to 128
panels to be connected together as a fully fault tolerant networked system with rapid inter panel communications and up to 1.2km of standard two
core fire resistant cabling between nodes. Each panel can be configured to display all or any events from any other panel allowing master/slave,
multiple master/slave or peer-to-peer configuration.
Sophisticated network analysis tools provide the ability to identify connection problems instantly and the commissioning mode allows individual
panels to be prevented from transmitting events to the network while maintaining communications. www.kentec.co.uk
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