OPC2net for Fire Systems
Although you have a fire system installed in your building you are far from being secured that your building / business will not burn
down. Connecting your fire system to your Building Management System (BMS) with OPC2net you can better secure that this will never happen to you.
You could ask: Why should I include the Fire System in my BMS?
We answer that question by asking
you back seven questions:
Q1:
In conventional Fire System setup there is quite large likelihood for false alarms. A false alarm can cause partial or full evacuation
of your building. What would such an evacuation cost you, shutting down your business for 10 minutes or more? What is the sensitivity
of your business for such shutdown? What are you willing to pay for avoiding such an event by installing OPC2net and integrate your Fire
System into your BMS?
Q2:
Your building is probably setup with hundreds or thousands of smoke detectors. Statistics tell us that in such a setup one or
more detectors can be malfunction at a particular time. If not integrating the Fire System into your BMS, you have higher risk that such
malfunctions will not be noticed. Do you want to risk that a room in your building with such a defective sensor go into fire or the sensor
gives a false alarm? What do you want to pay for malfunction logging into your BMS immediately noticed by the BMS Operator?
Q3:
If a fire brakes out in a particular location in your building the Fire Panel (or repeater) display will display something like:
FIRE
ZONE 5, ROOM 62
How much faster do you think that your building supervisor would be locating the fire with
a graphical screen like the one below, than from the text information above?
How much are you willing to pay for that the supervisor being few minutes faster locating the fire and thereby turning off the fire before
it gets wild or starts the sprinkler system? When it is fire, seconds matter!
Q4:
Is your business geographically distributed? Would you like to have overview over all your remote Fire Systems from a central
location for avoiding events like those described in Q1, Q2 and Q3?
Q5:
Is your insurance company willing to lower the insurance cost if you get the most out of your fire system possible? If not, you
might consider interchange your "stone age" insurance company.
Q6:
Would an easy accessible log of all events that have happened in your fire system be any value to you or your insurance company?
Q7:
Are you still thinking, "This will not happen to me", or are you more intelligent than that? Do you se the benefit of
integrating your Fire System into your BMS for just few thousand dollars or is your building/business not more worth than that?
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