Each year more than 500 earthquakes claim lives and damage buildings. Additionally, organizations worry increasingly about security and safety relating to natural disasters.
NovaComm's engineers and code compliance personnel identified the need to automatically release door locks on Access Control Vestibules during an earthquake. Under the innovative R&D minds at NovaComm the idea flourished and became the premiere life safety product line for Seismic Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of NovaComm.
The Seismic Control Switch, a patented single device, releases access control systems and initiates emergency exiting procedures to immediately release persons trapped by locked doors. It also assists with evacuation by providing specific safe paths of travel.
This tri-axial sensor system detects and identifies earthquake seismic patterns and/or explosions that occur in enclosed spaces. The system provides an immediate signal to perform any number of life safety tasks or to initiate specific disaster mitigation programs and equipment.
Using state of the art technology, equipment and software, this device has been developed to meet and integrate into existing National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and ICC codes. This previously hard to find technology offers two additional layers of alarm protection to both the private and public sectors.
The system consists of a UL approved type 2 power supply, an umbilical, and a NEMA 4 liquid tight steel enclosure containing the seismic sensor head. The device is designed to operate as a simple autonomous alarm. All alarm signals are output as either normally open or a normally closed circuits.