SIEMENS 42B5 Smart Sprinkler Solution User Guide
- June 15, 2024
- SIEMENS
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The next step in fire protection
42B5 Smart Sprinkler Solution
From routine testing to simpler reporting to ongoing compliance, our
partnership has empowered you to establish industry-leading fire-safety best
practices throughout your facilities.
But this progress is now being threatened by several new pressures.
Budget cuts and staffing constraints mean you have fewer resources available
to test sprinkler systems or answer emergency service calls. Even so, testing
and maintenance must be performed each month—or even each week—to satisfy
ever-increasing compliance demands.
The trouble is, a manually intensive, high-touch approach limits your ability
to tell what’s working and what’s not. And without direct insights into system
data, you run a greater risk of unexpected failures, business disruptions, and
expensive, unplanned repairs.
And as compliance becomes more complex, meeting basic regulatory requirements
won’t ensure you’re fully protected. Incidents lead to damage, wasted water,
and lost production time—not to mention costly repairs and rising insurance
premiums.
It’s easy to view this situation as a whole—all the maintenance requirements,
compliance headaches, and interruptions caused by alarm calls—and regard your
sprinkler system as little more than a nuisance.
But in reality, your sprinkler system plays a critical role protecting lives
and ensuring business continuity.
So what if you could digitize your fire sprinkler system?
Modernized fire protection in action
The last thing your facility needs is a catastrophic sprinkler failure.
When you digitize your sprinkler system with help from Siemens, you’ll gain
real-time visibility into your overall system status and use automated
diagnostics to help preserve system uptime—and protect your people, property,
and business productivity.
With the Siemens Smart Fire Sprinkler Service offering, you can:
See what’s happening within your sites without having to go there
Manually inspecting your sprinkler system takes considerable time and effort,
yet yields incomplete information, threatening your ability to deal with
failures. But with Siemens, you’ll use digital technology to continuously
monitor systems and proactively identify issues before they escalate. With
greater visibility into your systems, you’ll help to improve performance,
increase staff efficiencies, and save the time, costs, and environmental
impact associated with traveling between facilities to run tests.
Predict failures and schedule maintenance on your timeline
Periodic manual inspections rarely surface underlying issues—like leaks, pump
malfunctions, or compressors short cycling—particularly when you can’t compare
history from inspection to inspection. With access to real-time performance
insights from within the sprinkler system, you’ll be able to spot the root
cause of problems sooner and take proactive steps that help to prevent
downtime, increase reliability, and improve safety and compliance. And you’ll
be better positioned to identify areas of improvement and mitigate negative
trends before they damage the system.
Maintain fire-sprinkler compliance more cost effectively, efficiently, and
consistently
It’s hard to prove you’re meeting local code requirements—or show your system
is able to perform properly during a critical event—when a handwritten logbook
is your only evidence. But with our online tracking and reporting, you’ll meet
or exceed insurer requirements with accurate, defensible data that can be
produced on-demand.
This way, you’ll help to protect against unpredictable expenses, keep your
buildings open, and safeguard your reputation.
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