Along with a number of new cloud-connected innovations, Honeywell announced a significant expansion of its fire and life safety portfolio, including the next generation of smoke control capabilities under its NOTIFIER INSPIRE platform.

Together, these developments assist clients in transitioning from disjointed, manual fire safety procedures to a more integrated, intelligent life safety ecosystem that streamlines commissioning and installation, updates compliance and improves emergency response.

“With these innovations, we’re helping customers simplify complex designs, improve visibility across their systems and move beyond manual processes so they can better protect occupants, respond with greater confidence and operate more efficiently,” said Michael Troiano, president, global fire for Honeywell Building Automation.

The most recent NOTIFIER INSPIRE release, which offers fully integrated smoke control features, was developed by Honeywell in close collaboration with members of its customer advisory board. These capabilities lessen the need for additional hardware and intricate custom programming, simplify installation and maintenance and facilitate system adaptation as building requirements change.

The technology offers a more unified architecture that simplifies coordination across life safety activities and lessens overall system fragmentation, going beyond previous smoke control systems. These features increase ongoing maintenance and compliance through automated testing and centralized reporting, speed up deployment and reduce overall system costs and make upgrades and retrofits more feasible utilizing current infrastructure.

"This generation of integrated smoke control fundamentally simplifies how these systems are designed and deployed, reducing complexity in the field, accelerating commissioning and making ongoing testing and compliance much more manageable," said John Strohecker, vice president, Alarm and Detection for Cosco Fire Protection, a member of Honeywell’s customer advisory board. “Working with Honeywell on this innovation reflects a shared focus on delivering practical solutions that improve performance and safety for our customers.”

The system has a natively incorporated "purge" capability that may react automatically to carbon monoxide (CO) events in addition to fire response. In order to safely lower CO concentration levels, the system introduces fresh air and expels contaminated air from the affected area when a CO alarm is triggered. This controlled ventilation strategy supports fire-mode operation, which controls airflow to restrict smoke and limit oxygen to a potential fire and helps reduce hazardous exposure to occupants.

Building on these developments, Honeywell is launching new solutions to improve visibility, coordination, and dependability throughout the fire lifecycle as well as advances within its Connected Life Safety Services (CLSS) platform.

Differences between system data and actual layouts can pose a problem as buildings change. Zone Sync gives operators and first responders a reliable and consistent source of truth by keeping floor layouts, device mapping and alarm zones in sync across systems.

In addition to providing building teams and first responders with real-time visibility during incidents, CLSS Rescue Assist assists residents who require extra help in emergency situations. When it counts most, the outcome is quicker, better-informed responses and clearer communication.

Additionally, Honeywell added redundant cellular connectivity to its first responder platform with the introduction of USDD's Phoenix G2 ATX Cellular Alerting. This feature increases emergency responders' dependability by ensuring that crucial dispatch alerts continue even in the event of network outages.

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