Prevention & protection

Prevention & protection

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Fire safety; Prevention & protection

A signalling line circuit that uses the local leg of the public switched network as an active multiplex channel while simultaneously allowing that leg's use for normal telephone communications.

Feed-forward signal

Fire safety; Prevention & protection

A signal used to anticipate a change in the measured variable.

A signal provided by a system that detects fire in its earliest stages of development to enhance the opportunity of building occupants to escape and to commence manual suppression of the fire prior ...

Public alert signal

Fire safety; Prevention & protection

A signal or message delivered to a person or device indicating the existence of a situation that affects public safety.

Fire alarm signal

Fire safety; Prevention & protection

A signal initiated by a fire alarm-initiating device such as a manual fire alarm box, automatic fire detector, waterflow switch, or other device in which activation is indicative of the presence of a ...