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Fire Safety in High-rise buildings.
If you are responsible for Fire safety or are a resident of a high-rise, multi-occupancy property you will be only too aware of the increased awareness of the need for enhanced fire detection and evacuation processes.
The former ‘stay put’ guidance is now regarded as unsafe and has been replaced by a ‘simultaneous evacuation’ strategy.
Many properties have deployed a waking watch service; this is a fire protection service and involves marshals patrolling to lookout for potential signs of a fire. They are also responsible for raising the alarm.
These services are costing property owners and residents thousands of pounds. A Waking Watch service can be replaced by a wireless Fire Detection System. This meets all the required standards and is quickly and easily installed. The total one-off cost of a Fire Detection System can be less than 10 weeks of a Waking Watch service.
White-Light optimises Colour Cameras performance and can still achieve accurate colour at night. It can also act as a visible deterrent to deter intruders by working in conjunction with movement detection devices. It has low running cost and zero maintenance.
Traditionally CCTV lighting has been provided by mains driven bulbs. Although some bulbs are more efficient than others the future of all lighting lies with Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). Compared to any bulb, LED’s provide significant savings on electrical consumption.
Megapixel cameras record brightness on a per-pixel basis so the greater the amount of pixels the smaller surface area each pixel has available to capture light. The end result is that the greater the resolution the less sensitive the camera.
IP CCTV cameras offer a number of advantages including higher resolution, wider angle images, and the ability to digitally zoom images. However, they are by nature less sensitive than standard CCD cameras meaning they require additional lighting to achieve high quality images at night.