All You Need To Know About Commercial Fire Alarm Monitoring Systems
For quite some time now, fire alarm systems that are used in the US have been monitored with the help of telephone lines. There are basically three primary processes that work here, first, as soon as the alarm goes off, the signal gets transmitted to the phone line, second, a primary monitoring station retrieves the signal, and lastly, once the signal gets received, emergency services follow. Since these are commercial systems, they need to be monitored 24 hours a day, all around the year. For a large portion of commercial spaces, the fire alarm monitoring systems still run on older generation phone lines. According to the guidelines set up by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), all commercial fire alarm monitoring systems must have a couple of communication lines connected or joined to the panel. What this step does is ensure that the emergency message is broadcasted even if one of the lines is busy. As per the latest NFPA code, businesses and organizations are permitt