• System Sensor India

Smoke Detectors

Honeywell Life Safety (HLS), a business unit of Honeywell India recently introduced the S300 range of smoke detector in the Indian market. This latest development from System Sensor India enhances the functionality of the conventional detector, incorporating many of the advanced features previously only provided in an analogue addressable unit. The Series 300 is the first conventional detector from a major detector manufacturer to incorporate intelligence in the head, a development that is likely to redefine the conventional detector landscape. The onboard intelligence provides users and installers with features and capabilities previously only found in more complex analogue addressable detectors. As far as the panel is concerned, the detector is perfectly standard; no special interface is required, the Series 300 is fully compatible with most popular control panels from the major manufacturers. The family consists of a photoelectric smoke detector, a photo-thermal detector and thermal detectors, available as both fixed temperature and rate of rise units. The photo-thermal detector is a true multi-sensor unit; the alarm signals from both the optical and the thermal sensors are continually monitored by the internal processor, with an alarm condition only being communicated to the panel after interrogation and analysis of both signals. While combined conventional photo and thermal detectors have been produced in the past, these have typically been two independent devices contained in the same housing; the Series 300 is one of the first conventional detectors to combine the two different technologies into one integrated unit. Two support products complete the range, a laser test unit and a wireless remote programmer with two-way communications capability. These two units make programming, testing, commissioning and maintenance an extremely simple and quick procedure. The Series 300 is fully backwards compatible with the range of bases from System Sensor’s previous generation of the conventional detectors, the Series 100. Upgrades and extensions to existing installations are a matter of plugging in an alternative detector to an existing base.