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Fire Alarm Installation & Inspection Prices

If you have a building that needs a fire detection and prevention system, you'll inevitably have to pay for installations and inspections. How do you know what price is appropriate for these services?

Price to Install Fire Alarm Monitoring Systems

How much should you be paying for install labor on a fire alarm monitoring system? As I frequently remind clients during an equipment discussion, installation labor can cost as much as or even more than the price of the actual equipment.

What is a Central Station for Fire Alarm Monitoring?

Just as with all aspects of telecommunications, there were once simpler times. If you go back about 60 years, you'll see that fire/police agencies would directly receive alarm notifications from businesses, college campuses, and other facilities.

How Much Does a Fire Panel Cost in 2023?

You need fire panels for all of your buildings where required by fire code, but how much should you really be paying to buy (and install) these fire protection devices?

Mircom FX-2000 & FX-4000 Monitoring Overview

Let's take a look at the basics of Mircom and its FX-series fire alarm panels. After we cover the fundamentals, I'll show you more precisely how a mediator like Muxpad can interact smoothly with your Mircom FACP.

Hochiki FireNET Plus FACP Monitoring Overview

We've worked to engineer support for the Hochiki fire panels you may have installed in your system. That's true of both our Muxpad device (which collects printer-port alarm data from Hochiki fire panels) and our Prism LX (which can be your central collection and alarm display server).

Monitor Your Fire Panel (FACP) via Printer Port (ASCII)

For fire panels, especially older ones, one of the most common ways for alarm data to be emitted is via a traditional printer port. While this used to literally result in a printed paper record, it's now much more popular to display the ASCII text (raw or processed) on your fire alarm display screen.

Monitor Your Mircom, Notifier by Honeywell, or Simplex Fire Panel via Printer Port

The older your fire panels are (up to a point!), the more likely they use a traditional printer port. While this used to literally result in a printed paper record, it's now much more popular to display the ASCII text (raw or processed) on your fire alarm display screen. Let's review specific FACP models from Mircom, Notifier/Honeywell, and Simplex.

Monitor Your Edwards, FCI, Gamewell, or Hochiki Fire Panel via Printer Port

Today, we'll review specific fire panels from Edwards, FCI, Gamewell, and Hochiki. All of these can be monitored with ASCII output from a printer port.

How to Monitor Gamewell Flex 500, 600, 630, 650 Fire Panels (FACP)

Gamewell is a major manufacturer of fire alarm control panels (FACP) that are useful for commercial, municipal, and military installations. In a modern install, it's expected (and required!) that you will monitor all of your fire panels as a single cohesive system. But how do you do that?