I saw some images online from an apartment building in Canada. Does anyone have any idea what this is?
I also saw this smoke detector:
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That appears to be a Maple Armor system
Yeah: I do believe that’s the first one I’ve seen in actual life safety service. Who do you suppose makes the detector? (since I haven’t known Maple Armor to make automatic detectors).
I also found a similar system in a nearby building.
I found this website online:
This company also has the same/similar products. Apparently, these are addressable horn/strobes.
Edit: This actually appears to be the same company.
Maple Armor is kinda the original manufacturer, since they’re the Canadian division of a Chinese company by the name of “Jade Bird Fire Co., Ltd.”. They can also be found branded “D-TECTRON”, which are apparently sold by “Shanghai Firetech Co., Ltd.” (also) of China.
Maple Armor/Jade Bird makes them in both addressable & conventional versions according to the former’s website.
Turns out that apparently Maple Armor does actually make automatic detectors now, so that’s one of theirs I guess.
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In a mechanical room at my high school, I saw a Federal Signal B-9.
For some reason, my school has a horn system on the 1st floor, and a speaker system on the 2nd and 3rd for fire alarms.
That’s odd: what would an indoor room be doing with a siren most likely made for outdoor applications? (especially given how loud it is)
Also very odd: who designed that system? (unless the building itself was once just one story & built with horns & then later it got added on with two more floors & a voice system)
Notice how I bolded mechanical room. The siren is more than likely in there to be heard over all the mechanical noise in case of fires or other emergencies.
Oh, okay, sorry, didn’t see that. Yeah, that would make sense.
I’ve seen three or four Maple Armor systems, all of which are protecting small apartment buildings in my area. I wonder if the company is specifically targeting these types of applications; if so, it seems that their closest competitor will be Mircom.
It would be interesting to hear the opinions of people who have worked with these systems, as I have yet to read any comments from folks who have experience with them—in fact, there are very few videos online that even show these products in action.
The B-9 is designed for indoor industrial use and short-range outdoor applications
It was commonly used as a duck-and-cover alert system in schools, and is still used in old industrial buildings as security alarms
My B-9 is named Dave or “Stickers” and made an appearance at SirenCon2024, most notably known as the B-9 that fell over