System Sensor Entertainment The Rumba Room

Case Study The Rumba Room Multi Criteria Fire Detector Rumba Room is a popular upscale Hollywood nightclub of a multi building multi story entertainment complex 25,000 square foot Latin dance club boasts two levels a patron capacity and two dance floors featuring state sound and lighting including fog and smoke effects the club smoke was triggering facility smoke alarms an almost nightly basis make matters worse smoke would trigger a alarm that would the evacuation of a quarter of the entire complex the restaurant the club each alarm resulting 1 2 hours of downtime evacuation fire arrival and and clearing of lost revenues from each instance could exceed tens of of dollars purchasing and experimenting with several different fog smoke machines with similar results the club was forced receive special permission to set all of its smoke detectors supervisory ultimately slowing fire response and incurring liability 2009 Callide Technical of San Dimas CA was contracted upgrade the fire safety system of the entire entertainment The Rumba Room posed a particular challenge to the fire system all the fog and smoke effects the existing photoelectric were constantly going into alarm said Tom a principal in Callide Technical Callide Technical felt maintaining the fire alarm system on supervisory was an solution in terms of liability risks and costs and the delay in actual fire response of their ability to quickly respond to actual fires while high immunity to nuisance conditions Callide proposed installing System Sensor Advanced Multi Fire Detectors branded as IntelliQuad for Notifier The Room agreed that the decrease in lost revenues and and increase in fire response times would certainly justify use of the more advanced technology especially if it would them to operate the club with the smoke and light effects contribute significantly to its unique ambience and appeal Technical installed about 25 Advanced Multi Criteria Fire to cover the dance floor areas on both levels Installers the detectors like any smoke detector while small amount of additional was required set the detector at the sensitivity level for the costs were basically a said Johnson installed cost for these was about 15 20 more than a typical detector the Room was losing money in an hour of than 50 times the difference installation was completed the Rumba Room was able to all of its detectors to alarm from supervisory And what of former nightly nuisance alarms Johnson concluded have been operating for nearly a month now without a nuisance alarm world most accurate detector for the most applications award winning Advanced Fire Detector combines four sensing technologies smoke carbon monoxide heat and light with intelligent to maintain the highest sensitivity to real fire while nuisance conditions The detector is ideal for the most applications where accurate fire detection provides serious challenge for traditional detectors especially where nuisance alarms can threaten life safety or mission critical and revenue generating activities more information visit www systemsensor com multi System Sensor All rights reserved Product specifications subject to change without notice 6 10 2234