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The fire alarm industry is growing.  How is it growing?

- New technology to improve response time for first responders, see more, control access, detect smoke/fire, and every kind of sensor you can think of.  

- Improved fire codes being implemented to protect building occupants

- Better unde...

Do you have a special application fire alarm project?  Most alarm companies can handle the simple system designs - retail store, small apartment building, small office building, etc.  But how about these integrations/applications:

Elevator primary/secondary recall

Smoke dampers

Elevator shaft...

Occasionally we find ourselves talking to a customer about their alarm monitoring and using the jargon that only we understand in the industry.  I have to catch myself sometimes.  "What's an RP list?," a customer asks.  Oh, I'm sorry, I mean an emergency contact list.  ...

We feel it's important to do our part to buy American products (it's in our name after all).  If we can't get them in the USA, we try to buy from free trade countries.  Below are some of the companies and products we buy from regularly that are located in the USA.

Gentex Corp - fire alarm n...

First of all, what does "in the cloud" even mean?  Is it up in the sky somewhere?  No.  It really just means that you are not hosting the data on your site.  You pay someone else (maybe someone who understands data storage and cyber-security) to store your information a...