Honeywell Life Safety (HLS), a business unit of Honeywell India, recently introduced the S300 range of smoke detectors in India. The latest S300 range acts conventionally and thinks intelligently. The new features in S300 have been combined to increase the ability of the fire detection system to give greater protection to a building and its occupants by reacting more swiftly to an incipient fire without false and nuisance alarms also rising. The Series 300 is the first conventional detector whose onboard intelligence provides users and installers with features and capabilities previously only found in more complex analogue addressable detectors. The Series 300 is fully compatible with most popular control panels from major manufacturers.

According to Mr Sudipto Datta, Marketing Leader, South Asia, Honeywell Life Safety, "As our understanding of fire has grown over the years, so fire systems have become more sophisticated, with different detection methods characterised to particular sorts of fire. All detector developments are intended to improve the speed of response to a real fire to negate false alarms. S300 meets those expectations and much more".

The S300 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 conventional detectors, the Series 100. Upgrades and extensions to existing installations are a matter of plugging in an alternative detector to an existing base.

(Contact: Honeywell Life Safety|Sensor, Devices and Gas, Gurgaon. Tel: 0124-4752700. Fax: 91-124-4752750. Email: systemsensor.india@honeywell.com)