A fire alarm system, often just called a fire alarm, is a building system designed to detect, alert occupants, and alert emergency forces of the presence of fire, smoke, carbon monoxide, or other fire
A fire alarm horn strobe (System Sensor SpectrAlert), remote annunciator (Honeywell RA-1000R) and pull station (Edwards 270-SPO), connected together in a fire alarm system.
A fire alarm notification appliance (Wheelock MT-24-LSM) as widely used under North American standards
A Simplex TrueAlert fire alarm strobe
A Honeywell DeltaNet FS90 fire alarm control panel
A smoke detector is a device that senses smoke, typically as an indicator of fire. Smoke detectors/alarms are usually housed in plastic enclosures, typically shaped like a disk about 125 millimetres i
Fire alarm system
…inputs to the fire alarm control unit and are manually or automatically activated. Examples include pull stations, heat detectors, duct detectors, and smoke detectors. Fire alarm notification appliance: This component uses energy supplied from the fire alarm system or other stored energy source to inform the proximate…
Smoke detector mounted on a ceiling
Optical smoke detector with the cover removed; the angled plastic in an arc across the top is a light baffle
Inside a basic ionization smoke detector. The black, round structure at the right is the ionization chamber. The white, round structure at the upper left is the piezoelectric horn that produces the alarm sound.
An americium container from a smoke detector