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Aquasonic reveal
Revolutionary
Tyco Fire Suppression & Building Products has
unveiled its new ANSUL® AQUASONIC™ fire management tool
suppression system that is aimed at Class B fires
that involve flammable liquids such as petrol,
Simeio
™
the ground-breaking site personnel
diesel, solvents, lubricants and spirits. The new
management tool, that will revolutionise the
system utilises non-toxic and readily available
construction industry, has announced the
extinguishing media – water and nitrogen. AQUA-
launch of the first truly mobile site personnel
SONIC is specifically engineered to cover a wide
management system designed to manage on-
spectrum of special-hazard industrial and com-
site attendance and Health and Safety
mercial applications in defined-area protected
information, in real-time. The Simeio handset
spaces. The key to the effectiveness of the system
is a rugged and truly mobile device that uses a
is the patented AQUASONIC atomizer nozzle. It
combination of finger print scanning, elec-
uses what is described as “supersonic” technology
tronic signature and mobile GPS technology
to break down water particles into trillions of
to verify a person’s identity and location.
smaller droplets that are uniform in size. As these
This removes the opportunity for data manip-
droplets reach their target they extract heat from
ulation whilst ensuring that all people on a
the fire and suppress it. Significantly, the AQUA-
particular site have agreed to the site rules
SONIC system uses one-third of the water of
including, if relevant, acknowledging that they
comparable high-pressure water-mist systems,
have the correct Personal Protective
produces a higher volume of smaller water
Equipment (PPE). This information can be
droplets than traditional watermist solutions, and
accessed in real-time, 24/7, by appropriate
projects them farther across the combustion zone
personnel using the secure Simeio web portal.
than was possible with previous technology.
Introducing Simeio onto a site makes site
For further information telephone 0161 875
management much more efficient. The
0402, email marketing@tyco-bspd.com
Simeio handset operates like a mobile phone
or visit www.tyco-fsbp.com
contract with no capital expenditure required,
making it an accessible and affordable solu-
tion for use by small building companies
through to large contractors.
For further information telephone 0845
474 6346 or email info@simeio.co.uk
Firelink
Nano detection
Hochiki has extended its FIRElink high-sensitivity
smoke detection offering with the introduction of
FIRElink-Nano. It incorporates advanced semi-
conductor laser and electronics technology into a
package that shows substantial savings in whole-
life cost when compared with other systems on the
market. The new FIRElink-Nano is a single-pipe
system with a sampling pipe length for still air of
50 metres, with either two, six or ten sampling
holes, depending on whether the fire risk is Class
A, Class B or Class C. It comes as an extremely
compact, low cost and easy to install package that
uses what is called Perceptive Artificial
Intelligence. This ensures that it operates con-
stantly at optimum sensitivity for the particular
protected environment, without having to resort to
complicated and expensive setting up. The system
configures itself to provide the high sensitivity
required for a “clean” environment.
For further information 01634 266 566,
email at news@hochikieurope.com
or visit www.hochikieurope.com.
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