Synergy Enabled™ Integrated Fire, Security, Access Control and CCTV Systems

In the years since building functions initially required control by multiple systems, there’s been a need to make building systems simpler and more efficient. No matter how sophisticated current building systems are, there’s always ways to improve them. Whether it be by finding common ground among the systems or by consolidating elements that fulfill similar functions; there’s room for improvement. That’s the principle behind EST’s pursuit of the integrated building system. That's the principle behind Synergy-enabled^TM life safety.

y combining a number of common elements, EST is bringing fire, security, access control, and CCTV together into one cohesive system. With the FireWorks fire alarm package providing the backbone, the new system will meet all legislated requirements - namely, that life safety takes precedence among the activities orchestrated by the control panel. After all, only a truly integrated system can assure that high volume card access activity will not affect the priority and network response speed of fire reporting - a characteristic mandated by codes and standards.

In the past with older technology, there has been strong resistance to combining life safety systems with security systems. EST’s truly integrated approach eliminates these technical objections. Where there is still AHJ objection to combining different functions on a single circuit, EST3 can provide any level of system separation deemed acceptable to the AHJ.

Benefits : Synergy Enabled^TM integration allows enclosures, power supplies, backup batteries, and communication circuits can be used by all system functions.

True integration permits systems to interact easily - for example, unlocking exit doors during a fire. With EST3, a simple program rule to unlock the doors replaces additional conduit, wiring and interposing relays. Want to disarm security partitions automatically when an authorized cardholder enters the building? With the Synergy Enabled^TM EST3 system, creating another simple programming rule easily solves the problem.

So what does all this mean? It means that for the first time, security and card access functions will benefit from the survivability and the reliability mandated by the fire codes and life safety standards. It means that costs will be reduced because system resources will now be shared. It means that installation will be vastly more efficient. No more layering of system upon system and no more finger pointing. No more patch-work protocols or gateways that shoehorn one system into another. Just the simple elegance of a single system unencumbered by needless redundancy - a truly integrated system with sole-source system-wide responsibility.