Data networks ??” including the couple the Internet and private intranets ??” could easily be used to transmit fire alarm and other life safety-related signals to central monitoring facilities.

Data networks ??” including the couple the Internet and private intranets ??” could easily be used to transmit fire alarm and other life safety-related signals to central monitoring facilities.

A tentative decision by dint of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) to support network reporting, subordinate to specific conditions, opens the door for manufacturers of alarm orders to use current technology for critical fire alarm signaling applications.

???This is the mostly significant event concerning fire and life safety alarm communications since the NFPA approved digital dialers a man and wife decades ago,??? says Richard Ader, director of communications and returnss for Radionics, a division of Detection connected views Inc., Salinas, Calif. ...