Johnson Controls Enhances Autocall ES Net Life Safety Network With Network Bridge
Autocall allows fire alarm system data to be transmitted across distant buildings via a customer’s existing network infrastructure.
MILWAUKEE – Smart and sustainable building company Johnson Controls has enhanced the Autocall ES Net Life Safety Network to offer long-distance connectivity between customers’ buildings, better visual alarm safety and increased cost savings.
The new ES Net Network Bridge device “allows fire alarm system data to travel over a customer’s existing network infrastructure by creating a secure VPN tunnel, improving system visibility and control across distant buildings and campuses,” according to the company announcement.
“These latest features allow us to offer customers a complete Autocall ES Net package,” says Anna Khanova, vice president, global product management for Johnson Controls, in the announcement.
“Large facility, campus and enterprise operators looking for a network with better safety and response, lower installation and expansion cost, and increased quality and reliability will find Autocall ES Net to be the ideal integrated fire and life safety solution,” she says.
Long-Distance Connectivity
The ES Net Network Bridge improves system-wide monitoring and control in facilities and campuses where life safety networks are often widely dispersed.
By connecting multiple buildings over long distances with high-speed, high-bandwidth, high-resilience connectivity via existing network infrastructure, facilities can eliminate the need to run new or additional dedicated wiring for the fire alarm system.
With this enhancement, the Autocall ES Net now “provides a singular, shared pathway for secure, encrypted data transfer across all networked devices, including panels, detectors, strobes and alarms as well as system health,” according to the company announcement.
“This gives an operator complete, centralized, multi-building visibility from a single workstation, allowing more effective response and more simplified system reconfiguration,” the announcement says.
The ES Net Network Bridge meets the NFPA 72 Class N pathway specification, which specifically addresses the use of IP network infrastructure used for fire alarm and emergency communication systems.
Complete Life Safety Solution
An IP-based, UL-Listed fire and life safety network, Autocall ES Net optimizes system design and installation flexibility with impressive network capacity, speed, performance and resiliency.
Its combined features “make it ideal for large commercial facility managers looking to simplify their life safety operations while taking advantage of robust features that help meet codes and the needs of users, occupants and first responders,” the company announcement says.
For example, ES Net provides compliance with NFPA 72 requirements for synchronized notifications without extra wiring, modules or programming. This feature is especially helpful in airports, sports arenas, atriums or malls, where multiple strobes are connected and visible at one time.
It also allows in-building emergency alert audio and firefighter telephone communication to be sent digitally over the life safety network, providing crucial communication capability for first responders.
This makes it easier and more cost-effective for users to implement audio messaging throughout their facilities and meet codes like Life Safety 101 and NFPA 72 which mandate voice evacuation messaging in certain facilities.
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