For decades, the fire and life safety industry has relied on alarm communication methods like plain old telephone service (POTS) lines and other unreliable and outdated systems simply because it’s the ...

Life safety dampers are an important part of fire and smoke protection in commercial buildings. Much like smoke detectors and fire sprinklers, they need to be periodically tested, per the ...

The subject line of an email that arrived in my inbox earlier this week read, “Largest alarm panel recall in industry history could be coming.” It was followed by a half dozen emails from friends and ...