Commercial Division of Fire Alarm System & Services-

Fire and Life Safety protection is a code-required responsibility & obligation for all businesses and facilities. When fire safety is concerned, every life in commercial property and facilities falls under the owner’s responsibility. Protect your building, facility, or campus with the latest and most up-to-date fire alarm products, technologies, and services.

Residential Division of Fire Alarm System & Services-

Fire Alarm wide-range of Fire & Life Safety, and Home Security Products are designed to keep you, your family, and your home protected, 24/7/365, no matter what emergency you may face. iicons can design and install your all-in-one fire alarm, security, and camera system in order to establish a real-time, instant-action security system, integrated with the best in fire alarm – then: you’re really protected.

Overview

A fire alarm system warns people when smoke, fire, carbon monoxide or other fire-related emergencies are detected. These alarms may be activated automatically from smoke detectors, and heat detectors or may also be activated via manual fire alarm activation devices such as manual call points or pull stations.

IICONS Fire Services is a full service, non-proprietary fire alarm inspection, maintenance, installation, and monitoring company. From routine fire alarm inspections to large-scale upgrades, IICONS Fire is the company you can count on to keep your fire alarm equipment maintained and within code. Our project manager’s fire alarm specialists are well versed in NFPA codes and local AHJ requirements across the country.

We are a factory authorized distributor of the Fire Production Manufacture MNC Company of product lines. We will also service proprietary systems such as best Fire Services Installation and Commissioning Industries. Our technicians are the best and will solve your problems.

As your partner in fire and life safety, we will support your existing system and design, and install and maintain a new one. We can work with you to create a plan to migrate your outdated or obsolete systems to newer, addressable systems often recommended. We can also provide a phased plan to help with budgeting upgrades. Properly inspected and maintained fire alarms simply work better. Our reasonably priced inspection and service rates set us apart from our competition. Commercial fire and security monitoring are available for any panel.

Conventional fire alarm systems.

Analogue-addressable fire alarm systems.

Conventional fire alarms are ideal for small buildings, such as individual offices or retail shops. They go off individually when they detect smoke or heat and will help everyone escape from your building safely and quickly.

Addressable fire alarms are a necessity for large building complexes or campuses. Addressable fire alarm systems can be customized in a variety of ways, including:

Different devices having different alarm thresholds based on their location

An annunciator panel in the front of your building to show exactly which devices or zones have been triggered Scalable networks that allow you to add zones with ease Addressable fire alarm systems are typically more expensive than conventional alarms, but the extra information they provide to firefighters and building managers is invaluable.

The Parts of a Fire Alarm System

As stated above, a fire alarm system is a collection of many separate parts, each with their own unique function. Knowing what these parts are and how they work together is necessary to better understand how the system works as a whole.

The following are the five key elements that make up every fire alarm system:

Initiating Devices: initiating devices are the part of the alarm system which detects smoke or a fire. These devices include smoke detectors of various kinds, heat detectors of various kinds, sprinkler water flow sensors, and pull stations.

Indicating Appliances: indicating appliances are the part of the system that sounds the alarm and alerts occupants to the fire hazard.

Indicating appliances include horns, chimes, bells, and in some situations, even strobe lights for the hard of hearing and deaf. Most of these appliances are deliberately loud so as not to be missed and to encourage everyone to leave the building quickly.

Where those who are deaf or hard of hearing are present, or code requires, strobe lights are also used in conjunction with the other indicators so that there is a visual warning of the fire as well.

Fire Alarm Panel: the fire alarm control panel is the user interface and central monitoring and controlling element of the system. It has a display revealing the current state (alarm or no alarm) of the fire alarm system and a touch pad, which allows onsite personnel to program, troubleshoot, silence, and reset the system.

The fire alarm panel monitors and has supervisory function over all of the system’s initiating devices, indicating appliances, and all related telephone ties, field wiring, and its circuit cards and internal wiring.

It is also via the fire alarm panel that a call is sent out to a monitoring agency in the event of a triggered alarm so that emergency personnel are alerted.

Power Supplies: Power supplies cover main power from the breaker, (2) 12V batteries as backup for 24 hours, and sometimes a generator as backup power for many fire alarm systems. The batteries may be contained in either the control panel or in a separate enclosure. The batteries will take over should the power fail, allowing the system to continue protecting the building from fire for 24 hours. A generator can provide power for longer periods of power outages.

Auxiliary Devices: many additional devices can be added onto a fire alarm system to bolster fire protection in a facility.

Additional devices include things like visual LED indicators showing which zone in a building a fire alarm was initiated, remote annunciators, alarm silence switches, electromagnetic door holders, fire doors, elevator capture and shutdown, etc.

As can be seen, these systems can be as simple or as elaborate as a facility needs, and for each element listed above, there is a wide variety of options.

Creating or updating the ideal system for your facility can be a huge undertaking and should be done in consultation with experts like IICONS and professional electricians who both understand the host of capabilities these systems and their parts offer as well as the local requirements of your AHJ.

Fire Alarm Systems Detect a Fire

The way a fire alarm system detects a fire is through its initiating devices, discussed above.

The fire alarm panel is connected to the system’s initiating devices through either 2- or 4-wire circuits. This circuitry allows the control panel to monitor the state of its initiating devices, usually by zones, identifying whether the devices are in normal or alarm mode. The control panel shows these readings on its display panel.

When a fire starts, the smoke or heat will activate one of the initiating devices, or someone will activate the manual pull station, alerting the fire alarm system to the fire and putting it in alarm mode.

Fire Alarm System is activated

once the system goes into alarm mode, two things should happen:

The indicating appliances should sound the alarm, notifying everyone in the building of the danger.

A call should go out via the system’s telephone lines to the monitoring company.

In some fire alarm systems, it may also activate fire suppression system to help fight the fire until emergency personnel arrives.

In the simplest terms, the role of a fire alarm system is to detect fires and alert both building occupants and emergency personnel from a centrally monitored and controlled location.

These systems also self-monitor, identifying where within the building(s) alarms originate from and detecting when errors occur in wiring and connections that may hinder the system from working correctly.

In essence, a fire alarm system has four key functions: detect, alert, monitor, and control. These sophisticated systems use a network of devices, appliances, and control panels to carry out these four functions.