According to this reply to a Reddit thread, Gaemwell-FCI will be introducing their own version of the Notifier Inspires.
Based on this UL listing, there will be a GFP-RLD-E3-ADP. According to the N16 datasheet, the RLD is a remote display, so the GFP-RLD-E3-ADP is probably a retrofit kit to connect to an existing E3 display (since there is also a regular GFP-RLD).
This UL listing includes the GFP-A, GFP-CPU-RB, and GFP-AR. I assume the R in GFP-AR indicates that the FACP will be red as opposed to black. Based on the name “GFP-CPU-RB,” the GFP-A will likely be a rebrand of the N16e, as the CPU of the N16x is not considered a “replacement board.”
Besides the devices in these two listings, I did not find any other noteworthy devices. I don’t know if a rebrand of the N16x will be produced.
While I hope that these will be better than the E3 and S3 systems, and that Honeywell is trying to turn around their QC issues, this really just sounds like a lazy attempt at modernizing the product line, while just reusing existing equipment, but making it incompatible with the existing systems.
At least it’s better than what Silent Knight is currently doing. I’d say that they are currently the worst Honeywell brand by far. They have had countless QC issues, have fully abandoned their older product lines, and they are way behind in technology. Even their new panels that are coming out just seem to be slightly updated versions of their existing products. Although they are more ahead than Fire-Lite in terms of technology and capabilities, Fire-Lite was never meant to be a complicated or fancy brand. They are meant to make simple, inexpensive, and reliable systems, and they’ve been fairly successful at that.
I think the point is to consolidate the brands. The SS series is a step toward consolidating Fire-Lite with Silent Knight, and this is now a step toward consolidating Notifier with Gamewell-FCI.
I think the challenge is that Silent Knight used to be an independent company, but after its purchase by Honeywell, there was a need to lower its quality so that its nonproprietary products would be similar to Fire-Lite. The Farenhyt series was in a similar position to the FireWarden series, though I’m not sure why they would do that much work to maintain those two lines.
I couldn’t tell you how much I hope this is true. This would benefit Honeywell’s customers and dealers so much, and it could help Honeywell focus on what really matters: making quality products that are reliable. Honeywell (especially SK) is currently on the bottom of my list of brands that I would install in a building that I owned or cared about, but maybe that will change. I have hope for the future.
The GFP series is now on Honeywell’s website, and it is also known as the Elevate series. It looks like it will have 2 loops, meaning it is not a direct rebrand of an Inspire panel, and it does not support Apollo devices. The datasheet is here. Similar to the Notifier Inspires, the Elevate series has self-testing detectors and licensable features. The datasheet also refers to the “legacy S3 panel,” meaning this is probably meant as a replacement for the S3 series. There are also “future networking capabilities” on the datasheet, which might allow the Elevate to be on the same network as an Inspire.
A page for the GFP-RLD also exists, but I’m not sure how accurate it is since the photos say “E3 Series.” The manual is here. Many of the screenshots in the manual show Notifier names such as N16 and ACM-30.
This is quite interesting. I’m always amazed at how you find all this information.
Despite this, I’m definitely not super excited about this new panel. The discontinuation of Apollo support is super unnecessary, and is bad. I’m also not at all a fan of the licensing. I do hope that the quality will be a step above the S3, though.
If that annunciator says “E3 series,” do you think they may be coming out with an E3 revamp/replacement soon too?
I’ll probably see one of these before I see a Notifier Inspire system, as GW-FCI is the only Honeywell brand I’ve seen installed in my area in this decade.
Maybe, but I think Honeywell just reused the E3 cabinet.
I found the links to these documents using Honeywell’s search feature. It looks like the documents are no longer shown there, but I already saved the links here.
Notifier has actually been slowly locking more features behind licensing, and I’m not sure what that means for existing systems that have previously been using those features without the licenses. At some point in the last couple of years, Notifier changed the N16X so that a special N16-XUPG is needed to access the features not available on the N16E, and it looks like earlier this year, they also locked the advanced detectors (e.g. PTIR) behind a new N16-FSAE license.
February 2026 - added the N16-FSAE-10 and N16-FSAE-20.
Gamewell-FCI also uses the FSAE license. The Elevate datasheet claims this is short for “Fire Services Access Elevator,” so I was wrong about the advanced detectors being locked behind a new license.
I noticed that this page for the Elevate series shows the Elevate FACP, the ACM-30, and the ANX2-MR. The ANX2-MR is not mentioned on the E3 datasheet, and it is the last entry on this page, so I suspect that it is a new module that interfaces between Elevate and E3 networks.
Also, a few documents are here (with protected access) but sometimes don’t show. Here are the titles:
Remote LCD Display GFP_RLD Instruction Manual
GFP Elevate Listing Document
Lamp Driver Module Instruction Manual
SLC Gamewell-FCI Elevate Wiring Manual
GFP-BB-RA for ACM-30 Product Installation Document