When a team is repeatedly getting beat by a powerful player, an adaptive defense will often switch to a double team or even collapse into a triple team at times. It is a useful concept as there is strength in numbers. False alarms are an exasperating adversary in fire detection. According to “False Alarm Activity in the U.S. in 2009,” by Michael J. Karter Jr., National Fire Protection Association, Fire Analysis and Research Division, Quincy, Mass., false alarms consistently represent one out of every 10 calls in the United States. It is a problem requiring a new kind of defense, or, in this case, detector. Why go head-to-head with fire and false alarms with one technology, when you can use multiple technologies?
False alarms are a problem everyone involved in fire protection wants to beat. In fact, on May 3, 2011 the United States Fire Administration (USFA), International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) co-hosted a first-ever summit to begin the discussion on how to reduce the number of unnecessary fire alarm responses.