Integrated Systems: The Magic of Mix & Match Communications
That’s the lesson of an integrated life safety system at Cornell University.
The 745-acre, 240-building Ithaca, N.Y., campus of Cornell University has become a safer place with an upgraded fire alarm monitoring system that pinpoints information from more than 30,000 points (smoke alarms, heat detectors, etc.). The university’s new Digitize (Lake Hopatcong, N.J.) System 3505 alarm monitoring system identifies and provides details on the alarm source (for example, smoke alarm, building 123, first floor hallway by Room 230). As part of the upgrade, the 10-year-old system was replaced. The older system simply monitored reverse polarity alarms that only identified the building where the alarm originated.