System Sensor Residential Silvercreek Retirement Living

CO Study Silvercreek Premier Retirement Living Configuration Meets Requirements Reducing Costs Premier Retirement Living Branch Miss Residential 3 Story Buildings Apartments Sounder Bases Speaker Strobes Smoke Detectors Heat Detectors Relay Modules 98 luxury apartments Silvercreek Premier Retirement will offer catered independent and assisted living to seniors of two interconnected three story Silvercreek overlooks the Cherokee Golf Course in Olive Branch Miss Because it is a retirement facility catering to senior community the design of the fire system some unique challenges for AlarmTec of Memphis Tenn designer and of the fire system are often mobile and evacuations can pose a health so the fire system had to limit unnecessary on the occupants while optimizing life in the case of a fire event says Mark owner of AlarmTec Systems Specifically the design called for an detection system that could provide levels of alarm and notifications instructions for occupants based on location and severity of the fire For example smoke is sensed in only one living space it need to trigger a supervisory signal in room only In living spaces with more than room the sounders would need to be such that any activated sounder in that area would automatically synchronize the of the other sounders If smoke is in more than one living space each would result in a supervisory signal across only those rooms in which is sensed a general alarm voice messaging would guidance to occupants whenever fire is in a common space or in the cases of or pull station activation Because of population involved in order to avoid a total a fire detected in Silvercreek East for example would result in speaker providing evacuation voice can be achieved using software at panel not physical jumpers or hardwired we first began this project the B200S were not yet available said Rob Duncan Lead Project Engineer for the project The original plan called for use of interconnect wiring between sounder to group the signals However AlarmTec in one day to find that painters had finished the ceilings severely limiting access to the lost three days trying to find wires work through that issue Once we found out B200S bases were available we made a to switch those in and eliminate the We lost three days trying to find wires and work through issue Once we found out the B200S bases were we made a decision to switch those in That saved us a lot of time and money Rob Duncan Lead Project Engineer Silvercreek Project in that building while the West would receive a different voice putting those occupants in standby this situation voice messaging would instruct Building occupants to evacuate to the Building in order to prevent elderly and occupants from having to go outside absolutely necessary If conditions evacuation of both buildings a voice message would then direct residents to to the outside Built on three addressable loops tied back a NOTIFIER NFS2 3030 Panel one of the challenges of implementing the fire was the requirement to synchronize across multiple rooms in supervisory To achieve this AlarmTec chose to intelligent smoke detectors in newly System Sensor B200S addressable bases in all the living spaces Using System Sensor synchronization protocol addressable sounder bases now enable to program a command set from the including selection of volume tone and to tailor the response to specific That means synchronization of the fact the initial configuration was of the interconnect wires They mounted to same junction boxes Software configuration took us 2 to 3 minutes per device from that and all of it was done from the panel That saved us a lot of time and money to provide a continuous tone in events The local fire marshal asked that Temporal 3 tone be used for local alarm since voice communications be provided for general evacuation In a hardwired system that would meant accessing each device and jumper positions at a minimum It also have meant changing out complete Either scenario would have meant days labor and disruption to the project schedule with the B200S a simple software change made to modify the command sets a task took less than 10 minutes to accomplish Silvercreek Premier Retirement Living was commissioned and opened to residents in of 2011 For more information on System Sensor smoke detectors and sounder bases systemsensor com products intell Cost Estimate Using B200S Bases Installation cost estimates based national averages Sounder Installation units x 7 min each 1,260.00 to satisfy AHJ hour service call load a new panel and test 100.00 1,360 Base Installation units x 8 min each 1,440.00 relays end relays and monitor and wiring 940.00 to satisfy AHJ heads jumpers and heads units x 2 min each 360.00 2,740.00 Savings System Sensor SSCS00100 2583