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  2. Standards for Alarm Systems, Installation, and Monitoring

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    The Underwriters Laboratories' UL 365 is a safety standard that governs the construction, performance, and maintenance of police station-connected burglar alarm units and systems. These systems are designed primarily for use in mercantile premises, including mercantile safes and vaults, as well as bank safes and vaults.

  3. Tank leak detection - Wikipedia

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    Tank leak detection is implemented to alert the operator to a suspected release from any part of a storage tank system, what enables to prevent from soil contamination and loss of product. In many countries regulated UST are required to have an approved leak detection method so that leaks are discovered quickly and the release is stopped in time.

  4. Manual fire alarm activation - Wikipedia

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    Manual fire alarm activation requires human intervention, as distinct from automatic fire alarm activation such as that provided through the use of heat detectors and smoke detectors. It is, however, possible for call points/pull stations to be used in conjunction with automatic detection as part of the overall fire detection and alarm system.

  5. Leak detection - Wikipedia

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    A leak appearing within an analytic region (a rule added to the camera) is immediately analyzed for its attributes, including thermal temperature, size, and behaviour (e.g. spraying, pooling, spilling). When a leak is determined to be valid based on set parameters, an alarm notification with leak video is generated and sent to a monitoring station.

  6. Water detector - Wikipedia

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    Electronic components used to make a simple water detector: battery, resistor, transistor, water sensor and piezoelectric buzzer for audible alert A water detector is an electronic device that is designed to detect the presence of water for purposes such as to provide an alert in time to allow the prevention of water leakage.

  7. NFPA 72 - Wikipedia

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    The NFPA 72 "covers the application, installation, location, performance, inspection, testing, and maintenance of fire alarm systems, supervising station alarm systems, public emergency alarm reporting systems, fire warning equipment and emergency communications systems (ECS), and their components."

  8. Fire alarm call box - Wikipedia

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    A fire alarm box, fire alarm call box, or fire alarm pull box is a device used for notifying a fire department of a fire or a fire alarm activation. Typically installed on street corners or on the outside of commercial buildings in urban areas, they were the main means of summoning firefighters before the general availability of telephones.

  9. Andrew Kay - Wikipedia

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    Andrew F. Kay (January 22, 1919 – August 28, 2014) was a businessman and innovator. He was President and CEO of Kaypro , a personal computer company, which at one time was the world's fourth largest manufacturer of computers, and the largest in the world in sales of portable computers .