Intelligent Fire Alarm Panels
Intelligent fire alarm panels are the most popular panels in currently due to a variety of factors. AHJs sometimes require intelligent fire alarm panels in order to provide more information to aid alarm responses as well as reducing false alarms.
Intelligent panels are differentiated from the overarching category of addressable panels by several reasons. One of those reasons is the ability to read chamber values of smoke detectors, which allows certain detectors sensitivity to be set higher or lower depending on the environment it's installed. For smoke detectors as well, they can determine the difference between being dirty and smoke, which conventional smoke detectors cannot do. The ability to determine the difference between smoke and being dirty reduces false alarms, which is great especially for larger buildings.
It is possible to program an intelligent fire alarm system to do just about anything the AHJ or end user may want it to do. Furthermore, these intelligent systems can often be connected to a computer or building management system to monitor more detailed data, and see floor plans of the building in accordance with locations of every device, making locating a device very easy.
