In the Boone County and Hebron area of Kentucky, Gentex Alarms are Very Common. Especially Gentex Commanders. Almost every Building around here has at least one Gentex Device of some sort. System Sensor is probably the next Most Common Brand in the Area.
In Rhode Island, many buildings still have ESL 1500 series fire panels, with ESL-rebranded RSG pull stations.
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Welcome to the forums! Thatās definitely interesting that they are using so many old panels still. What notification appliances are most common in those systems?
In my area (Prague, Czech Repulbic), one brand you can find basically everywhere. That is Esser by Honeywell. Next common is Schrack (local austrian brand). What I find 3rd common is Tyco on MX protocol. most other brands are rare or uncommon and are quite hard to find.
Now in Croatia similar systems are common but there is also more variety.
Esser, Schrack, inim (usually not for main systems), and siemens are installed often. But other brands such as notifie, apollo and others arenāt hard to find.
Netherlands would have siemens in many large buildings and complexes, apollo being in many medium sized buildings, with esser coming third in larger medium buildings. The netherlands also has some variety so finding other brands like notifer and GE wouldnt be hard to come by.
Hungary has several brands that would be found everywhere. First, siemens are in many larger buildings and complexes, apollo can be easily found in medium sized buildings, system sensor is quite common in medium to larger buildings and so is schrack and bosch.
Slovenia is also quite similar system wise to hungary except with bosch.
Italy has a large variety but most common include: notifier, siemens, and esser.
France has many brands that are only found in france though larger buildings have systems commonly found elsewhere such as esser, siemens and system sensor. Legrand also has a popular fire division in france but is mostly found in smaller buildings.
Germany and austria usually only have systems in medium-larger buildings. Popular systems include (this time in order): Esser, siemens, schrack, bosch.
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My immediate area is Gamewell Fci, Nearly everything is Gamewll Fci, My school district installs them and A new shopping center uses a lot of it (2 of the buildings have fire lite). Other than that buildings use other Honeywell brands, Simplex, two uses EST, a hotel has Siemens; though many buildings donāt have anything at all. Other than my immediate area I have found a pretty fair mix of brands in my larger area.
Often there are SpectrAlert Classics or Wheelock ASes
I see. At least they are using āmodernā code compliant devices.
I know I previously said that Honeywell sort of disappeared in my area, but my area has recently seen a bit of a Gamewell-FCI takeover with new systems. Almost every new system Iāve seen recently has been either Siemens, Autocall, or Gamewell-FCI. Iāve mostly been seeing them in smaller installs, though, usually using the 7075 series panels. Iāve only seen one E3 system in my area and no S3 systems.
i found like 10 spectralert classic p2475rl (no fire lettering) ina hospital i go to and the had nbg12lx with keyholes on the I because theyre modified two stage, theres also p2r spectralert advances, Idk the panel, Theres a sys-hs on top of reception and 5601p detectors (alot of thai people install 5601p cause cheap) and theres a toa pa system linked into it. Spectralerts p2r and p2475rl are most common they even have some at My school (nohmi system)
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Mostly Fire-Lite, Notifier, SK, etc, the Honeywell brands. Although Iāve seen a few Simplex systems however they are older.
Thatās all I can think of, I live in a smaller town, so I canāt find many systems in my area, although I know of one EST3 system at st Louis.
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In my area Iād say Simplex, Edwards, Notifier - in that order. You could find pretty much anything in the city though, but those are the big 3.
(But if we include all Honeywell brands along with Notifier - Iād probably put them in first place.)
My city (population ~250k) is pretty well dominated by Honeywell brands, notably Notifier, in small to mid-rise buildings. EST and Siemens have a pretty decent grip on the high-rise market.
However thereās also a lot of Mircom, especially on the residential side. My apartment building (4 floors) is a non-voice Mircom FX-2000 system. My friend lives in a 10-story apartment building with a Mircom system, but interestingly it has voice in the hallways, but mini-horns in the units. Thereās another apartment building with the same exact setup that I also looked at when moving here.
Simplex systems are few and far between. Thereās two condo buildings near me with 4100U or 4100ES systems (not quite sure, I can only see the annunciator) but thatās all Iām aware of.
The town I used to live in was very much dominated by Simplex. Many smaller buildings and stores, as well as most of the schools had Simplex systems. These were all āmodernā systems with TrueAlerts. Honeywell was a close second. EST was exceedingly rare, the only EST system I know of was in a photo studio and (IIRC) had a QuickStart panel. Siemens was incredibly hard to come by, outside of one college that was mostly Simplex but had a few Siemens systems.
SK is one of the most dominant in my area. This includes the Honeywell Farenhyt Series bc they are basically a rebrand of SK devices. Hochiki and Potter 2nd place. Firelite is also really dominant obviously, but a lot of older firelite systems from early 2000s were replaced by Hochiki or SK systems. Firelite is mostly found in supermarkets here especially in Aldi. All Aldis I went to had newly installed Firelite Systems. All Walmarts I went to have Bosch. I noticed that the older keypads were replaced by newer ones. Simplexā¦I only saw those systems in the East of US. Thatās how rejected it is here. I see EST systems in hospitals but idk what honeywell owned company is dominant when it comes to hospitals, because i saw a lot of system sensor stuff in other hospitals. I believe Notifier is. Thatās about it.
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Iāve counted the brands of fire alarm systems in practically every building that I can find information on in my area. Iāve decided to total them up, and put them in a graph:
If you notice some of them say 0%, thatās not because those systems donāt exist in my area. Because itās rounding to the nearest percentage point, any brand that makes up less than 0.5% of the systems in my area will be called 0% on the chart labels. I didnāt include the ones that actually donāt exist in my area on the graph/chart.
In my area , I mostly see Honeywell fire alarms in commercial buildings and some residential complexes. They seem to be pretty common here.
For homes, people usually just go with whatever the builder installed or whateverās available at local hardware stores. Havenāt really paid much attention to brands in residential setups tbh.
In offices and malls, Iāve noticed Honeywell and Agni systems mostly. Not sure if thatās because theyāre better or just because contractors prefer certain brands.
Not where I live, but last summer I visited Cincinnati and felt like there was a higher percentage of Simplex as opposed to anything else. Not sure if thereās a reason for that, or if Simplex was just more competitive with their bids. Anyone know about it?
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Up in Vermont where I am, itās mostly Silent Knight, Mircom, Eaton/Wheelock/Siemens/Cerberus, Sigcom, Fire Lite, ADT, Notifier, Simplex, Gamewell and Gamewell FCI plus a bunch of old FCI FC-72 systems which I heard are quite uncommon in other states. We also Include the small modular panels like the Bosch and Radionics systems which I absolutely loathe because those are nothing but trouble codes and constant problems. But sometimes we got some rare occurrences where youāll find an Edwards/EST system in service. Rutland Regional Medical Center in Rutland VT has a functioning EST3 voice evac system. And other times we got some rare setups like my old Pediatrician Clinic in Burlington VT used to have an old and big Simplex 2001-8001 with Space Age AV-32ās and Gamewell Century pull stations, but after like 2019, they switched the system out for a 4100ES and put Simplex 4099-9006 addressable pull stations with Simplex 4906-9127 TrueAlert horn strobes all in the first floor. But luckily from the second floor up, they still kept the old AV-32ās and Century pull stations. 