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Bosch Aspirating Smoke Detector 420 Series offers early detection and exact localization of fires
Bosch Security Systems is extending its 420 Series Aspirating Smoke Detectors with a version offering very early detection and localization of fires. The new Aspirating Smoke Detector TM features ROOM-IDENT. This feature enables individual identification of up to five rooms and quickly tracks down the source of a fire in four phases, displaying the result both on the unit itself and on the Bosch Modular Fire Panel 5000 Series. The new TM version also features a ten-digit bar graph for monitoring smoke pollution.
The TM detector unit is capable of protecting areas of up to 400 square meters even under challenging environmental conditions. Potential application areas include hotels, small server rooms and small high-rise warehouses.
The complete 420 Series provides three models, all specially designed to interface with the Bosch Modular Fire Panel 5000 Series with the extended features of LSN improved technology (Local Security Network).
Bosch’s LSN bus system uses the master-s... [ more ]
Bloxx Web Filtering solution regulates Internet access for Hampton School staff and students
Hampton School is using Tru-View Technology to monitor and regulate Internet access for its 200 staff and 1100 students. After one-year of active use, Hampton School has already benefited from the power of the appliance’s sophisticated content filtering, specifically its flexible reclassification functionality and advanced reporting capabilities.
Prior to installing the Bloxx appliance, Hampton School was using a system that stopped them from reclassifying sites that needed to be blocked or allowed. Having to submit these requests to their managed service provider to reclassify was time consuming for the IT team and frustrating for the teaching staff. “This inflexibility made it extremely difficult to apply our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) effectively,” commented Ian Trevean, Network Manager at Hampton School.
“After evaluating a number of different web filters, we felt that Bloxx provided all of the functionality we required to more easily manage Internet access and implement a... [ more ]
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