Fire safety

Fire safety technology: What is it all about?

Fire safety technology has to tailor different requirements to prevent, detect or in the worst case extinguish fires as fast as possible. We have materials about different detection-, extinguishing technologies and their technical basics, about intelligent response for emergency cases as evacuation principles, planning manuals and articles about current challenges of the field due to different environmental and material requirements of the values to be protected.

Let’s get the basics

•  Learn from this website how modern smoke detection works

332 pages fire safety know how

1. Introduction

2. Integral Fire Protection

3. Gas Detection

4. Fire Detection

5. Alarm and Evacuation

6. Automatic extinguishing

7. Danger Management System

8. Maintenance and Services

9. Standards and Regulations

10. Symbols and Terminology

The table of contents and a brief summary to each chapter you find here:

•  Fire safety guide

The complete edition of the Fire safety guide contains a hardcopy and a CD with PDF-files, both in English and German. Please ask the Siemens contact in your country for availability.

•  Contact

Coming to the details

Fire detection and extinguishing

•  Fire protection in archives and libraries has special needs as pointed out in this technical article.
•  Interested in prevention of potential damage to hard disk drives during discharges of dry extinguishing systems? Discover this white paper.
•  Statistics show: where sprinklers did not operate, detectors triggered and alerted occupants 89% (single and multiple residential) to 100% (healthcare) of the time. Learn more about the value of smoke detection at this website.
•  Learn from this planning tool how modern, cableless ASA technology for fire detection works.
•  This movie explains you the operation and functionality of modern, cableless fire detection systems. Have a look!

Intelligent response in case of fire

•  Find a detailed and visualized overview helping you to plan and install a voice alarm system with our planning manual
•  How can intelligent response systems help to prevent, detect, respond and recover dangers for life and equipement as fire and other? Find out with this technical article.

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What does Wikipedia say about fire safety?

Want to see how it REALLY works?

See SIemens BT reference cases, about fire detection e.g.

•  Areva NP, Headquarter

Did you know that...?

• …most fires in hospitals start from kitchen or from rooms with beddings and clothings? Find more information about building-specific solutions which are aligned to special needs in hospitals.

• …that over 64% of fires in  data centers are due to power and climate control equipment. Quality of equipment is therefore as crucial as fire detection system to prevent fires.

• … that injuries and deaths caused by terror attacks have increased six times since 9/11? Learn more about the special needs for fire safety and security technology at airports.

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