Thinking Outside the Box About CO & Smoke Detectors
Fire and life safety codes determine critical CO and smoke detector functionality — and that’s a good thing. But products can be even better when manufacturers think beyond code requirements.
The use of smoke and CO detectors in customer installations is driven, in large part, by fire protection and life safety codes, which also drive the specifications for the detectors that manufacturers build. But sometimes manufacturers introduce product innovations that provide benefits beyond simply meeting code requirements. Here are some recent examples: