My guess is the NFS2-3030 replaced an older Simplex system.
Maybe a 4100 (as the mall was built in the ‘80s) which may have been replaced with a 4100U
Nassau Cruise Port - Nassau, Bahamas
Panel: Simplex addressable panel(s) (Not sure if there’s multiple panels or networked panels since there are multiple buildings and some have horns and some have speakers)
Pulls: 4099-9005s
Detectors: 4098-9714s (some in an outdoor setting oddly enough)
AVs: TrueAlert speakers (ceiling mount), strobes (ceiling mount), and horn/strobes (wall mount)
The Shores Resort & Spa - Daytona Beach, FL
Panel: Notifier addressable panel with DVC (Likely an NFS2-640)
Common Areas and Corridors
Pulls: NBG-12LXes
Detectors: FSP-851s and at least one FSP-951
AVs: Gentex SSPK24 “floor mount” speaker/strobes, Commander 2 strobes, and at least one Commander 2 horn/strobe
All initiating devices poll via FlashScan.
Units
Detectors: Kidde 1276 residential smoke alarms (could vary by room)
AVs: System Sensor SpectrAlert Classic ceiling mount speakers (on the wall)
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This post will cover some grocery stores in Stamford, CT.
Stop and Shop, Stamford, CT (West Main Street:)
This store was built in 2006 as another Stop and Shop in Stamford, to cater to Greenwich residents and other Stamford residents. It is across the street from the massive ShopRite with the Siemens FS-250 system. Speaking of that ShopRite, competition from there and the other Stop and Shop have caused this store to close by Fall of 2024 and maybe be replaced by an ALDI.
The panel here is an EST3-formerly a QuickStart (annunciator at entrance in old QuickStart annunciator.)
The pulls here are EST SIGA-278s with the older EST logo.
The N/As are Genesis wall-mount and ceiling-mount horn/strobes and remote strobes in the bathrooms.
Stop and Shop (Bedford Street), Stamford, CT:
This Stop and Shop opened in 1998 and is located in the Ridgeway Shopping Center, which has a massive EST3 and IRC-3 voice-evacuation system. This store is a lot busier than the West Main St. location due to a closer location (being close to Downtown Stamford.)
Again, the panel here is an EST IRC-3 with voice evacuation. However, their security panel is a Radionics, as evident by the keypad in the photo below.
The pulls here are also SIGA-278s with the old EST logo:
The notification appliances are EST Integrity speaker/strobes:
There are no detectors as the building is sprinklered.
However, the parking garage has 270-SPO pulls and Integrity speaker/strobes:
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Well…I had my physical today and I will share the fire alarms at my Dr.'s office!
The current office has been used since 2016 after they left the Stamford Hospital during the redevelopment of the complex! They used to be in the Jeanne S. Rich Professional Office Building, which had an FCI 7100 system, with SK PS-DAs and SpectrAlert Advances. The office building was demolished in 2016, and was replaced with the hospital parking lot! 
The new office (since 2016) has a Fire-Lite system of some kind, with BG-12 pulls, xenon L-Series horn/strobes, and i3 detectors.
Bahama House - Daytona Beach, FL
Panel: Notifier Addressable Panel
Common Areas and Corridors
Pulls: Various Rebranded RMS-1Ts (I’ve seen Potter and Grinnell so far, there’s most likely mini monitor modules behind them)
Detectors: FSP-851s and FSP-951s
AVs: Gentex SSPK24 speaker/strobes (both red and white)
Units
Detectors: Kidde i12010 residential smoke alarms
AVs: Unknown speakers
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Grade A Markets/ShopRite (Newfield Ave), Stamford, CT:
This grocery store was built as part of the Newfield Green shopping center in the 1960s-early 1970s. The fire alarm system has mainly Edwards components, some System Sensor components, and the main panel is a Silent Knight panel! One of the weirdest systems in all of Stamford, if you ask me.
Grade A Markets was an independent supermarket chain, until they were bought out by ShopRite in the late 1990s-early 2000s. This Grade A (and the other ShopRite Grade A locations on Hope Street and on Shippan Avenue) are operated by the Cingari family in Stamford, CT (as well as the ShopRite on West Main Street.) All of their ShopRite locations were renovated recently. Now, onto the fire alarm system!
Panel:
- Silent Knight fire alarm panel (unknown model)- annunciator located at exit
Pulls:
- Edwards 270-SPOs (behind Stopper IIs)
N/As:
- SpectrAlert Advance ceiling mount horn/strobes in produce section
- Edwards 792 horn/strobes everywhere else
Detectors:
- None noticed
This next post will cover some systems in Stamford, CT that are located in strip mall stores.
SuperCuts, Stamford, CT:
This system is a typical '90s Fire-Lite system with Gentex notification appliances, and not MASSADAs surprisingly!
Panel: FA system is tied into the security system
Pulls: Fire-Lite BG-10s:
(they forgot to rest the pull station!)
N/As: Gentex SHGs (I have no photos)
HomeGoods, Stamford, CT:
This system is a mix of '90s early EST and Fire-Lite, with some quite rare notification appliances!
Panel: Fire-Lite Sensiscan 2000 (judging by annunciator, which is a Fire-Lite LED-10):
Pulls: Edwards 270-SPOs:
N/As: FIRST GENERATION EST Integrities!:
Smokes: None noticed, but there are smokes in the staff basement and freight elevator shaft! Speculation: The smokes are Edwards GS 6250 detectors or System Sensor 2400s.
T-Mobile, Stamford, CT:
This T-Mobile is located next door to the HomeGoods in the same shopping plaza (a salon is to the left of HomeGoods with BG-12s and Advances.)
Panel: FA system is also tied into security system
Pulls: EST SIGA-270s (THEY FORGOT TO RESET, YET AGAIN! PLEASE RESET THE PULLS!):
N/As: Genesis horn/strobes:
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Bass Pro Shops - Daytona Beach, FL
Panel: Silent Knight Addressable Panel
Pulls: SK-PULL-SAs
Detectors: SK-PHOTO-Ts
AVs: Gentex Commanders (2 or 3s and 4s)
Volusia Mall - Daytona Beach, FL
Panel: Simplex Addressable Panel (Likely a 4100 or 4005 with 4003 voice evac panel)
Pulls: None (some places don’t seem to have any in this area)
Detectors: 4908-9784s (Early TrueAlarms) and 4908-9714s (Current TrueAlarms)
AVs: 4903-9148 speaker/strobes
(This is complete guesswork as I couldn’t tell if this was a voice system or not, but it seemed like the AVs had speakers in them so this is my reasoning for saying it’s a voice evac system.)
Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen - Daytona Beach, FL
Panel: FireLite addressable panel (Likely an MS-9200UDLS or MS-9050UD) tied to a Potter Evax voice evac panel.
Pulls: BG-12LXes
Detectors: None as most restaurants don’t
AVs: System Sensor SPSRs and SRs
(Odd to have a voice evac system in such a small setting)
Unknown Shopping Plaza, Stamford, CT:
Quick Facts:
- This shopping plaza houses a Donut Delight coffee shop, Mathnasium math tutoring center, and a career center for the US Armed Forces
- Mathnasium was formerly a hair salon until 2016, when they moved into this space
- Donut Delight and the Armed Forces Career Center have stayed here the longest
I- Donut Delight:
- Panel: Fire Alarm system is tied into the security system
- Pulls: FCI MS-6s (newer version with skinnier font (photo credit: Buy Fire Alarm Parts):
- N/As: Wheelock AS horn/strobes
II- Mathnasium
- Panel: ADT combo fire/security panel (keypad at entrance)
- Pulls: Fire-Lite BG-12s
- N/As: SpectrAlert Advances
- Detectors: i3s, as well as a CO1224T on the first floor (there is a basement)
They actually might be horn/strobes.
The Home Depot, Stamford, CT:
My local Home Depot was built in 2018 on a site that was formerly empty land behind the Solvay/Cytec office building and a Stop and Shop that was built in 2006 (I already covered the Stop and Shop in a previous post.) The Cytec has ET70WP speaker strobes outside.
The panel is a Silent Knight panel with a Honeywell annunciator located near the entrance, right next to a Bosch security keypad.
The pulls here are Fire-Lite BG-12s, located near the entrances and exits.
The N/As are PC2RLs in the store, PC2RHKs near the garden center, HR horns near the outdoor exits, and SRL strobes in the indoor bathrooms.
Surprise! Not only did they actually keep several of the old 2903+9712 LifeAlarm speaker/lights, but the new addressable Simplex 4100ES voice-evac system at this hospital is branded by Autocall!
I guess they too decided to hop on the NSG Life Safety/Autocall bandwagon. They’re getting rather popular, especially since you’re pretty much getting Simplex products for a lower cost than directly from JCI (and it helps that NSG Life Safety has a few former JCI/Simplex techs on staff, not surprisingly).
The area where the annunciators were in the main entrance vestibule had a new wall and doorway built leading to a fire command center room, and I could see a big red 4100ES panel in there alongside a newer Space Age graphic annunciator, replacing the Simplex 4603-9101 LCD annunciator and the older graphic annunciator there before construction began after that electrical room fire. It was probably also easier to just put the panel right there.
All the new addressable Autocall initiating devices (A4098-9714 TrueAlarm smoke detectors and A4099-9006 dual-action pull stations) were mounted right where the existing Simplex devices were. The main lobby and coffee shop area did have their LifeAlarm speaker/lights removed in favor of ceiling-mount TrueAlert speaker/strobes, while the hallway nearby (where that pic was taken) still had the LifeAlarm signals intact. I would assume there are now more ADA-compliant strobes throughout the whole hospital than there were before, but it’s interesting they decided to follow grandfather clauses for some of the areas that were renovated and keep the LifeAlarm speaker/lights, probably because of the whole Autocall/Simplex thing.
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Mathnasium, Greenwich, CT:
This Mathnasium is owned by the same gentleman that owns the Stamford Mathnasium as well! This is located in a significantly larger shopping strip off of Route 1 in Greenwich!
Panel: Unknown- not tied into security system
Pulls: Edwards SIGA-270s
N/As: There were strangely no NAs in the center, not even in the bathroom! But, they have pull stations and detectors, strangely.
Detectors: Older System Sensor low-profile detectors
Fire Alarms at UMass Amherst
Hotel: This hotel mostly has simplex 2902 non-Ada speaker strobes or lights. They are either 9735s or 9739s. There’s also some Simplex TrueAlert 4906-9151/9154 Speaker/Strobes as well as Edwards Integrity Powersaver Speaker Strobes and Genesis Speaker Strobes
Student Union: Renovated in February 2021 has EST Genesis and LED Genesis White Speaker Strobes; Both wall and Ceiling units
Library: Simplex 4903-9144 and 4903-9142 speaker strobes and 4904-9135 remote strobes. It’s a very high rise building.
Thompson Hall: Simplex 4903-9147 Speaker Strobes
Science Center #1: This science center is new and has Simplex 4906-9151 TrueAlert Speaker Strobes and 4906-9101 remote strobes.
Science Center #2: This Science Center has some old Simplex bells
Integrative Learning Center (ILC): Has more Simplex 4906-9151 and 4906-9101 devices.
One of the dining halls renovated in 2020 has Simplex TrueAlert ES Addressable Speaker Strobes and Remote Strobes!
The Gymnasium Building has System Sensor SpectrAlert Advances.
The Athletic Center has TrueAlert Speaker Strobes (Don’t know if they’re fixed or multi candela)
There’s an old dining hall with vintage Simplex 4040 AC horns
There’s an old house type of building that has a Simplex 2903-9001 or 9101+2901-9838
One of the dorms has Simplex smoke detectors with sounder bases as well as 4904-9137, 9135 and/or 9136 remote strobes from sometime between 1994-1997.
One of the buildings has TrueAlert 4906-9127 Horn Strobes.
. The blue circle indicates for a 30CD strobe.
. The orange triangle indicates for a 110CD strobe.
Pulls: “LOCAL ALARM” Edwards 270-SPOs (a remnant of the previous system) in the CCD wing and BG-10s everywhere else
N/As: Mainly Wheelock 7002Ts, one SpectrAlert Advance, and one Edwards “FIRE HORN” Adaptahorn outside (from previous system)
Detectors: BRK photoelectric detectors in the sanctuary, vestibule, parish hall, and CCD hallway