- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
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Established in 1896, NFPA's mission is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education.
A signaling line circuit that uses the local leg of the public switched network as an active multiplex channel while simultaneously allowing that leg’s use for normal telephone communications.
Industry:Fire safety
A signal used to anticipate a change in the measured variable.
Industry:Fire safety
A signal provided by a system that detects fire in its earliest stages of development to enhance the opportunity of building occupants to escape and to commence manual suppression of the fire prior to arrival of fire service units.
Industry:Fire safety
A signal or message delivered to a person or device indicating the existence of a situation that affects public safety.
Industry:Fire safety
A signal initiated by a fire alarm-initiating device such as a manual fire alarm box, automatic fire detector, waterflow switch, or other device in which activation is indicative of the presence of a fire or fire signature.
Industry:Fire safety
A signal indicating the need for action in connection with the supervision of guards or system attendants.
Industry:Fire safety
A signal indicating an unauthorized event at a protected premises.
Industry:Fire safety
A signal indicating an emergency condition or an alert that requires action.
Industry:Fire safety
A signal indicating a concentration of carbon monoxide at or above the alarm threshold that could pose a risk to the life safety of the occupants and that requires immediate action.
Industry:Fire safety
A sign or outline lighting system, shipped as subassemblies, that requires field-installed wiring between the subassemblies to complete the overall sign. The subassemblies are either physically joined to form a single sign unit or are installed as separate remote parts of an overall sign.
Industry:Fire safety
