What an exciting time in Chicago at this year’s annual NFPA show!

There is no doubt that we are beginning to gain worldwide interest. We not only entertained distributors, end-users and specifiers from around the country – but had many visitors from around the world. In addition to the States and Puerto Rico, we’re in the middle of signing up distributors in India, South Africa and throughout countries in the Middle East and South America.

Given current economic conditions, attendance at the annual conference was more than we had expected and was actually up over previous years. Our booth was packed from the minute the doors were opened on Monday.

Why wouldn’t it be? We’re the only company in the industry offering a new, robust generation of fire protection equipment that provides a technologically advanced approach to life safety.

We’ve eliminated the ‘fire control panel’ and the limitations inherent to that technology – and replaced it with a modular, distributable IP/Ethernet based fire control system.

Think of the IP/Ethernet connection as being the central bus of our IP Fire Series^TM control system – because it is. This allows system design configurations to be virtually unlimited. Lay out your Cat5 cables any way you like (or use the existing Ethernet infrastructure of the building), attach modules wherever you need them - and you instantly have a highly survivable, high speed, distributed fire control system.

It’s that easy, that fast and that good.

If a module goes down, the remaining modules continue to operate. If there’s a break in communication, the system automatically forms sub-networks. If communication is restored, the modules automatically synchronize their data. If you need to expand, you can do it one module at a time. You can even wire it up to exceed Class A requirements by using our MESH networking switches. A single IP Fire Series^TM control can expand up to 50 modules of any type in any combination.

You are no longer locked into a single pc board, a single cabinet or a single location.

What do you gain by approaching fire protection this way? Actually, quite a bit.

The IP Fire Series^TM distributed technology offers real scalability, maximum survivability, 100 Mb speed, communication redundancy and absolute design flexibility.

Other companies may tout IP or Ethernet capabilities simply because they can report over it or connect more control panels with an Ethernet connection, but only AsBuilt^TM can offer IP/Ethernet communication between fire control functions offering you the most flexible, reliable and survivable fire protection system available anywhere.

Check out our website or write to Info@AsBuiltES.com for more information and to explore the highly advanced feature set of the IP Fire Series^TM.