AVA has integrated the advantages of aspirating smoke detection and conventional point-type smoke detector to enable the system not only to achieve very early warning fire detection provided by typical aspirating detection system but also to locate the fire source as a point-type smoke detector.
Compared with products with large protection area, AVA detectors, by design, are more limited to small area or small space protection, so it can pinpoint more accurate fire location in case of fire.
For example, AVA CSD series Cabinet Smoke Detector is designed to protect small, confined space such as a electrical cabinet. Even when used for room detection, the protection area is limited to 100 m2, which is the same as a point type smoke detector.
When AVA CSD system is in alarm, users can easily identify the fire location, solving the problem that typical aspirating detection systems can only provide large-area warning but fails to pin point the exact location of the fire.
【電氣室CSD-100場景圖：2011年版型錄或Sketch Up版本】
AVA FANFARE series multi-zone detectors have multiple independent high sensitivity smoke detection modules, each sampling pipe has an independent aspirator and high-sensitivity smoke detection module, so each pipe is an independent detection zone. FANFARE-2000 is a four-pipe, four-detector product that can locate four detection zones and FANFARE-4000 is an eight-pipe, eight-detector product that can locate eight detection zones.
For example, when the FANFARE-2000 is used to protect a data center, the four sampling pipes can be arranged to protect the air handling unit return air, below ceiling space, above ceiling void and under raised floor void respectively. When there is an alarm, the FANFARE-2000 can clearly identify the location where the pipe/smoke detector is protecting and its smoke conditioin.
【圖：FANFARE保護數據機房場景圖】
Even with the AVA QUARTAS single smoke detector series, like QUARTAS-2000, a four-pipe single smoke detector product, it can still perform a scan process by controlling the four aspirators to turn on and off in turn when alarm and determine which sampling pipe has abnormal smoke and locate the fire.
Although the QUARTAS-2000's scanning method is not as fast and straightforward as the FANFARE series to identify abnormal smoke location, and the scanning operation takes at least several tens of seconds to complete, in most cases it can still help personnel to determine the location of the fire earlier.
【圖：QUARTAS-2000保護電氣室場景圖】
The AVA series of products can identify the location of a fire more quickly, solving the problem of air-sampling smoke detection systems that can only detect fires over a large area and are not able to pinpoint the location of the fire. The sooner a fire is detected and dealt with (whether it's simply shutting down the power or the fire brigade arriving to extinguish the fire), the fire loss can be reduced dramatically. And pinpointing the location of a fire quickly is one of the key factors in buying more time to respond to a fire.
