Prioritizing What Matters Most When Specifying the Alarm Communications Pathway Why Newer Doesn’t Always Mean Better in Campus Alarm Communications Priorities for Alarm Signaling Communication The rapid pace of technological innovation has brought both opportunity and complexity to nearly every industry, including fire and life safety. As system capabilities continue to evolve, Fire Protection Engineers and system integrators are faced with the increasingly difficult task of

A Network Designed for Reliability Why Private, Licensed Wireless Networks Are Well Suited for Mission-Critical Campus Environments When Reliability is Not Optional In large, distributed campus settings, life safety systems must function reliably not only during normal operation, but during power outages, severe weather, and other emergency conditions. In these environments, communication performance is a design responsibility. For facility operators, engineers, and system designers, the technology

It’s time to lower the monthly cost of, to eliminate uncertainty about, to update your alarm communicators. BACK TO THE BLOG POTS Lines Are Going Away On August 2, 2022 the FCC issued Order 19-72A1, releasing phone companies from any legal obligation to provide POTS service. Now, fire & life safety providers are seeing immediate repercussions. With all the buzz around the 2022 3G sunsets, it’s no

Earlier this year, Art Black, founder of Carmel Fire Protection Associates and principal member of NFPA 72, sat down with Leonard Hanna, also a principal member of NFPA 72 (Supervising Station Fire Alarm and Signaling Systems) and AES Corporation’s Regional Sales Manager (Western US/Canada), as well as me, Amanda Beausoleil, AES’s Marketing Communications Manager, to discuss NFPA 72 and how it applies to AES’s technology.