Author: Senseco

The FIA have updated their guidance document on the need for 10 year hydrostatic testing of gas extinguishing cylinders.  The new guidance is available from Senseco Systems & is now much shorter and clearer, the requirements haven’t changed and it clearly states that;

All fixed extinguishing agent containers (eg HFC-227ea (FM-200), FK 5-1-12 (Novec 1230), HFC-23 (FE-13), HFC-125 (FE-25), IG 541 (INERGEN), IG 01(Argon), IG 55 (ARGONITE), IG100 (Nitrogen) and CO2 etc) must be inspected, re-tested and certified accordingly prior to the 10th anniversary of their manufacture or most recent test.

Note 1: Containers found to be in service beyond the 10th anniversary of their manufacture or most recent test should be removed from service.

Therefore if you have any cylinders nearing (or beyond) the 10 year date from their stamp we must advise you as our client of this requirement and request the full cylinder information needs to be passed to the Senseco Systems mechanical team to quote to replace the cylinders.

If you would like some free guidance on this requirement please contact us at sales@sensecosystems.com.

Senseco Systems are also proud to be one of the very few fire companies to be certified to the BAFE SP203 Part 3 Gas Suppression Standard which certifies us (and awarded us with three BSI Kitemark’s) to work on, design, install, maintain and support gas suppression systems.

Unlike the hundreds of our competitors who only possess the Part 1 Fire Alarm approval.

If you want to find out if your compliant on your cylinders and also on your maintenance or projects, then contact a competent third party certified suppression company such as Senseco Systems on sales@sensecosystems.com

I think Senseco have performed extremely well. The project team of Derek and Neil have been great, and together they have worked to ensure that all angles have been covered, and any risk has been mitigated as much as possible. The project itself has been considerably smoother than I anticipated. Yes we’ve had a couple of minor incidents but, on a project of this size and complexity that was to be expected, but importantly we haven’t had any issues that have resulted in any disruption to the business.

I haven’t personally been involved in the panel replacement training etc, but the feedback I’ve received from both Norland and our Security team has been very positive. The system operation is much easier, and the speed in which it functions has also been a strong positive over the previous system.

In summary, I personally am pleased that we opted via the tender process to award the contract to Senseco. The whole process from start to (almost) finish has been first class, and should I ever have to do this again then I would have no hesitation in calling Senseco.

End User Client for a Global Financial Client – Regarding a Siemens Algorex Upgrade to Siemens Cerberus Pro (See Previous Post Project Detail Post)

Delighted to announce that 12 members of the management team including the four Directors completed an “IOSH Directing Safely” course this week and all passed with flying colours, one of the many IOSH courses recently completed by our growing team.

To assist continued personal development but above all support the commitment to ensure the safety of our valued staff at work.

Senseco Systems are delighted to have secured a long term contract with our valued client LCR for the maintenance of the specialist SIMPLEX fire system at Waterloo International Terminal.  The contract includes the Fire Detection, Voice Alarm, Gas Suppression System and Actionair Smoke Damper Systems.

The site and system is very familiar to many of the management and engineering team at Senseco Systems were originally involved when the site was built in the 1990’s and as an engineering team had previously supported the site for many years.

Senseco Systems also service and maintain many other SIMPLEX systems throughout the UK thanks to the many years of experience on this specialised USA manufactured product and have a large engineering team with hardware and software experience.

If you have a SIMPLEX system and would like to know more about the service, maintenance and support that is available for this product please contact Senseco Systems on sales@sensecosystems.com.

Senseco Systems are delighted to invite you to join them at Firex International 2015 at ExCeL on the Siemens Cerberus Pro Stand ref E180.

Our Sales Director Mr Steve Thomas has been given the opportunity to provide a brief presentation detailing the recent success stories we have achieved with the Cerberus Pro product over the last 4 years including a system upgrade from a 40 year conventional to analogue addressable in a live occupied shopping centre in Maidstone Kent.  Also more recently some of the latest new build projects including specialist false immunity detection, voice alarm and recent lifecycle migration projects from legacy Siemens Algorex to latest Open protocol Siemens Cerberus Pro.

Following the brief presentation you will have the opportunity to join the VIP event from 16:00 on the stand where we can introduce you to new products and the manufacturer Siemens. Including the Open Protocol Cerberus Pro, The ASA False Alarm Immune Detection, The Silent Nozzle / Extinguishing solution and various other products and solutions.

We then have arranged a few drinks after the event and hope you have the opportunity to join us.

To ensure entry to the event please email us at sales@sensecosystems.com and we will reserve you a place and arrange a Firex Entry pass – Please respond ASAP to confirm your space

Look forward to seeing you next week.

Senseco Systems are delighted to confirm they have recently completed phase one of a significant fire system upgrade for a major blue chip client at their UK Headquarters in London.

The consultant recently tendered the system upgrade to replace the existing Siemens Algorex Closed Protocol as it was now reported as approaching obsolescence. The project was tendered to a number of contractors with the clear requirement for an Open Protocol system to be installed.

Senseco were delighted to propose the Siemens Open Protocol Cerberus Pro solution as this met and exceeded all the requirements of the specification.

Senseco has successfully installed many Cerberus Pro systems over the previous 3 years as a Siemens Value Added Partner (VAP) and so it was the obvious product choice. It also mean’t it retained the site as a Siemen’s product rather than being replaced with an alternative manufacturer which would have been a far greater

challenge.

The unique benefit of this solution was the ability of the new Siemens Cerberus Pro product having backward compatibility with the old legacy Siemens Algorex system. This meant that the system replacement could be carried out in phases, enabling Senseco to replace the Algorex control panels and retain the existing Algorex loop devices (Sensors, Callpoints and Interfaces) These are now operating on the new Cerberus Pro system and the loop devices can now be upgraded to the new Cerberus Pro loop devices one loop at a time and removes all the risk, commercial expense and system downtime of a complete product replacement to an alternative which was the clients intended route.

The client now has a fully Open Protocol system that can be maintained and fully supported by any of the trained VAP’s (value added partners) throughout the UK.

Our client also invested in the latest detection capability with the upgrade and will have the Cerberus Pro ASA smoke detection throughout ensuring false alarm immunity. The product and technology is so advanced that Senseco Systems offer their unique FAITH (False Alarm Immune Technology Harnessed) https://www.sensecosystems.com/fire/faith-guarantee/ Guarantee for the life of the system, guarantees the system against false alarms and backed with a financial commitment.

Senseco are delighted to have completed this phase of the project successfully thanks to weeks of prior planning and successful off site software and factory acceptance testing. We changed over a network of control panels including a total of 9x Control Panels incl Repeaters, MM8000 Graphics Panel, Special Build Fireman’s and Sprinkler Monitoring panels on a system size of nearly 3,000 loop devices. The team completed this critical first phase in a single shift over a weekend. No faults, alarms or negative affect to this large fully occupied building.

We now look forward to working on the next phase of loop changes and achieving completion in the coming months. This first phase couldn’t have gone better and the feedback from both our client and main contractor has been fantastic – Well Done Senseco Systems Projects Team, all delivered with in house capability.

Senseco Systems are delighted to announce the successful launch of their new iPad technology across the whole engineering team, after months of testing various platforms they have selected a bespoke solution that perfectly matches the needs of the growing operations team.

The solution produced in house also proved to be the most versatile and most reliable with 100% reliability throughout weeks of testing.

Because of the in house flexibility the solution also provides infinite future growth possibilities enabling all engineering team functions and communication to be electronic and instantaneous. The team are able to complete detailed engineer reports sheets for all disciplines regardless of whether fire alarm, security or mechanical services and various other functions and solutions including surveys will all be added as the platform develops and expands across the other divisions.

The system is already proving to be a fantastic step forward for the team, improving communication at all levels and also dramatically reducing response times on reports being issued as they are issued immediately from site to both Senseco HQ service desk and client regardless of whether the client is site based or not they are received electronically.

This in turn has improved remedial quote response times, a recent example this week was an engineer leaving site mid-afternoon having issued a report with a simple recommendation and a completed remedial quote was issued shortly after the report sheet was received the same day.

The investment and time spent testing has proved to very worthwhile and this along with various other enhancements to our operational service delivery team which we will announce shortly will continue to ensure we achieve our aim of #legandarycustomerservice and also maintaining our status as the first Carbon Neutral Fire and Security company in the UK.

It all makes Senseco

Senseco are delighted to secure 4x new fire detection systems with our valued client Liberty Property Trust. Installing our HFP range of products from our product partner Hochiki Europe. Find out more about our HFP product range at

http://www.hochikieurope.com/senseco-toolbox

Senseco Systems Limited prides itself on its high level of engineering knowledge and experience, with many members of the team having been in the industry over 20 years. With some of the team having managed over 40 years!

We have serviced and supported a great many different products including Notifier, Hochiki, Apollo, Kentec, Gent, PSS, Siemens, Ziton, EDA  Electro Detectors, EMS, Advanced Electronics… to name a few.

We also have extensive knowledge of  some of the older obsolete systems including ADT Minerva E80, Siemens/Cerberus Algorex, Wormald PBS and Protec AN95i  and many others. We have been able to offer very cost effective lifecycle upgrades on many of these systems by migrating from the old legacy systems to new Open Protocol solutions often reusing the existing field equipment/devices where possible.

We have also dealt with some of the less well known manufacturers in the UK including Simplex and Edwards / EST3 from the USA.

These two major manufacturers from the USA have some sites installed in the UK and many of the Senseco team have worked on these products for many years and we have many of these sites under maintenance today and fully supported. So if you have one of the systems and you would like to find out about our service and support of these products then please contact us at sales@sensecosystems.com.

We have a fantastic engineering and service delivery team waiting to support you, with some great client references available also to confirm our ability on these products.

sales@senscosystems.com