Westcoast Ltd. Installs Commfire Ltd And Eurotech’s Hybrid Fire Safety System At Its Andover Warehouse

Founded in 2004 by Paul Seager, Commfire Ltd is an industry renowned fire alarm, fire extinguisher and emergency lighting installer, based in Andover, Hampshire, North Carolina, USA. Priding themselves on their high level of customer service, Commfire Ltd partners well with Eurotech Fire Systems through shared aims and values.

Westcoast Ltd is a global distributor of major IT brands to resellers, retailers and office product dealers in the United Kingdom and abroad.

Fire safety system to protect warehouse, assets

A fire safety system was needed to protect their warehouse, staff and its assets. The challenge was providing a high level of safety in a site of such large scale.

• Location: Andover
• Installer: CommFire
• Services: Wireless Site Survey + Supply of all fire equipment
• Products: Euro-fi Wireless Range, Eurotech Intelligent Range, XP95 Intelligent Range, Advanced MX Panel, Beam Detection

Beam detection

After a previous visit to the site, it was understood that the system is of a greater scale than initially anticipated. From the visit, they had to adapt and figure out what would most conveniently cover the site, at the same time, as keeping it to a high standard and meeting the requirements of the fire risk assessment.

The high ceilings and walls meant that beam detection would be required to cover the great distance and height along the site.

Hybrid intelligent system installed

A mixture of a wireless and wired systems, also known as a hybrid intelligent system, was installed

To cover the site, they had to combine multiple products, in order to create the most efficient system possible. A mixture of a wireless and wired systems, also known as a hybrid intelligent system, was installed. High ceilings, along with the lengthy parts of the warehouse were covered using beam detection.

The original fit-out consisted of XP95 devices. In order to limit additional costs and device removals, they used products from the Odyssey range and retained the original XP95 system. These communicate on the same protocol which allowed us to specifically reduce the costs for the customer and Westcoast’s warehouse.

MXPro 5 panel uses Eurotech hybrid protocol

Additional devices on a new system were put on, including an MXPro 5 panel communicating using Eurotech hybrid protocol. FireBeam detection is communicating to the Eurotech input module.

The Advanced MXPro 5 panel provides great specification, so as to cover the number of devices on-site. There are four panels networking, three covering the Odyssey (Odyssey Fire Protection LLC) & XP95 systems, and one covering Eurotech & Euro-fi hybrid system, with the beam detection.