Mircom Blog

Mass Notification - Maintenance Requirements & Risk Tolerance

In this series of three blog posts, I’ll address the on-going mass notification system maintenance challenges and lessons I learned while at Seneca College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I’ll start off by talking about risk tolerance and the importance of maintenance requirements.

Top 10 Fire Alarm Retrofit Tips

Last week, I discussed the top five things to consider when replacing your fire alarm control unit. This week, I will expand on that post and discuss fire alarm retrofit requirements.

Top 5 Things to Consider When Replacing Your Fire Alarm Control Unit

In this week’s blog post I’ll discuss the top five things to keep in mind and accomplish prior to replacing a control unit in an older public building.

BACnet Implementation Work Flow and Benefits

In this week’s blog post our VP of Engineering, Jason Falbo, wraps up his blog series on BACnet by going through the implementation work flow for fire protection integration and the benefits of BACnet to various industry stakeholders.

A Case Study - Configuring a Fire Alarm System to Use BACnet

In this weeks blog post our VP of Engineering, Jason Falbo, shows how you can configure a fire alarm system to use the BACnet protocol.

The Benefits of BACnet's IP Based Infrastructure

This week Jason Falbo discusses the many benefits of BACnet's infrastructure.

BACnet the New Method of Integration Versus the Old Method

This week Jason Falbo discusses different methods of integrating life safety systems to other building management systems.

Why We Need Interoperability Today... and Are We Ready?

Learn why we need interoperability in the life safety industry and how we can get there.

Intelligibility in Mass Notification Systems

This week’s blog post is brought to you by a guest blogger, our very own Jason Falbo – VP of Engineering. Jason is an expert in Mass Notification Systems, and is here to share some of his key insights about intelligibility as pertaining to MNS.