by Shane Henson — August 10, 2012—The Siemens Building Technologies Division, a global provider of safe, secure and energy-efficient solutions for buildings, has launched innovations in the area of security and fire safety that the company will domonstrate at the Security 2012 international trade show in Essen, Germany. The company’s wide range of offerings in the areas of security and fire safety as well as energy efficiency and comfort in buildings is likely to appeal to security managers as well as facilities managers and owners in attendance.
Siemens’ will introduce its new, rugged aspirating smoke detector (ASD) as an important addition to its fire safety portfolio. The ASD is reportedly reliable even under harsh conditions such as in dusty environments. The company offers a genuine alarm guarantee for this new detector.
And in the area of security, Siemens will debut an evacuation simulation software prototype. According to the company, this solution can be used to simulate evacuations, for example in order to test the practicality of escape routes well in advance of an emergency situation. The software is able to analyze the movement of crowd flows in emergency situations, thus optimizing escape routes from buildings or stadiums. Siveillance Command Connect is Siemens’ unified communications software designed for use in the control centers of intervention forces, fire and police departments as well as critical infrastructures such as airports and power plants. The software consolidates all communications associated with an emergency event and displays them on a clearly organized touch screen.
These new products join the company’s Swing wireless fire detection network (Siemens Wireless Next Generation), which combines a fail-safe wireless network with patented advanced signal analysis technology to detect fires with “the utmost reliability,” as well as perimeter protection services ranging from risk analysis to combining the individual perimeter protection components in a central location, including round-the-clock operation and maintenance of the actual installation.
