PSIApril2019

FIRE SAFETY
Pulse Alert VADs
devices lower
installation costs,
making the latest fire
evacuation technology
affordable – without
compromising
performance
Klaxon achieves
ISO9001:2015
ahead of deadline
To ensure it adheres to the
high standards its customers
and partners have come to
expect, Klaxon Signals
transitioned to the new
ISO9001:2015 standard ahead
of the deadline of 15th March
2019.
The new standard focuses
on quality management,
ensuring customers get
consistently good quality
products, while at the same
time being strongly customerfocused.
It reflects the new
and different challenges that
businesses now face.
Klaxon is the fire safety
brand of Texecom, which has
been ISO-accredited with BSI
since 1996.
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Pulse Alert Technology
Fire alarm systems should be able to evacuate reliability. Sonos Pulse and Nexus Pulse LED
everyone. Relying on audible fire alarm
circuits are both designed to provide over five
notification alone, however, disadvantages years of continual operation, without a degradation
people with hearing impairments or those working of light output.
or living in a sound-reducing environment. Even • Lens Technology - The optics for both ceilingmount
and wall-mount versions are optimised to
something as simple as wearing a pair of
headphones could prevent someone from hearing produce an even light dispersion over the covered
an audible fire evacuation warning. To truly
area. This minimises ‘hot spots’ and ensures that
evacuate everyone from a building, fire alarms all the available light is contributing to alerting
should signal effectively using light as well as people of a fire emergency.
sound.
Klaxon Signals’ Pulse Alert Technology is a Coverage
beacon warning system which produces a light The simpler an evacuation system is, the more
output that can protect most rooms with just a effective it is likely to be. Sonos Pulse and Nexus
single device. Utilising new LED lighting
Pulse fulfil evacuation requirements with just a
technology derived from automotive applications, single device for most rooms. Ceiling-mounted
it disperses light evenly and efficiently, maximising devices are rated at 15-meter diameter coverage,
its effectiveness. Its patented electronic design while wall-mounted devices can cover an 11.5 x 11.5
also maximises electrical efficiency and
metre square room. System design
reduces current consumption,
requirements are therefore
minimising the cost of ownership
made easier, evacuation
and allowing more devices to be
messages are clearer and
installed on a single alarm
more people are protected
system.
than ever before.
Pulse Alert Technology
provides all the benefits that
Energy Efficiency
an EN54-23-compliant system
Pulse Alert technology
can bring, whilst answering all
ensures that Klaxon’s VADs
of the design challenges in doing
notify all personnel of a fire
so. This means a greater coverage
emergency whilst also reducing
area with lower current consumption –
the power consumption of each device.
and greater flexibility for system designers
This means that systems can be upgraded
and reduced the cost of ownership for end users – without imposing any restrictions on the number of
without compromising on evacuation notification devices used or compromising system
performance.
performance. Low power consumption is vital to
fire system designers and installers – Sonos Pulse
and Nexus Pulse ensure that all buildings can
provide the very best fire evacuation.
Pulse Alert Technology
Pulse Alert is able to provide EN54-23-compliant
visual alarm signalling without any increase in
power consumption because of three technological
breakthroughs:
• Intelligent Power Management -Pulse Alert
converts power intelligently, minimising power
usage and presenting a near-perfect current source
to fire alarm panels. This means the Sonos Pulse
and Nexus Pulse VADs require less power than
previous models, while also exceeding EN54-23
light output requirements.
• LED Drive - Pulse Alert features the latest,
high power LED technology and advanced LED
drive circuitry, further improving efficiency, light
output performance and long-term device
Low Installation Costs
Pulse Alert VADs devices lower installation costs,
making the latest fire evacuation technology
affordable – without compromising performance. A
wider coverage area per device reduces both the
number of devices required and expensive cabling
requirements, whilst low current consumption
removes the need for additional power supplies.
With a greater coverage pattern, fewer devices
are needed to cover open areas. Sonos Pulse
ceiling-mount units have a 15-metre coverage
diameter capable of covering a 10 x 10 metre room
with a single device.
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