Fire alarm system incidents generally follow a clearly defined procedure. To ensure that this process works reliably during an actual incident, information must be interpreted correctly, fire brigade route cards must be used confidently, and each step needs to be practised regularly.
With the Fire Alarm System Trainer, these procedures can be practised independently of a real fire alarm system. Different buildings, detector groups and incident scenarios can be prepared, triggered and repeated as often as required.
This turns theoretical fire alarm system training into an interactive exercise in which participants work through the entire procedure themselves.
From the FSD to system reset
The Fire Alarm System Trainer digitally simulates the key stages and information involved in a fire alarm system incident. Participants work through each incident scenario step by step:
FSD → FIZ → Detector Group → Fire Brigade Route Card → Investigation → Feedback → System Reset
The instructor decides which detector is triggered and how the scenario develops as the exercise progresses.
This allows participants to start with simple procedures and gradually progress to more complex scenarios involving multiple alarms or additional events.
Create Your Own Buildings for Training
The integrated floor plan editor allows you to create your own training buildings.
Floors, rooms and staircases can be created to match the actual building. The FIZ, detector groups and individual detectors can then be placed in the desired locations.
This makes it possible to train with a familiar building from your own response area, for example, or with a completely new training building.
Possible training buildings include, for example:
- Schools and kindergartens
- nursing homes
- Office buildings
- Commercial and industrial facilities
- Fire stations
- Custom-built training scenarios
This allows participants to repeatedly train with different building layouts and incident scenarios.
Automatically Generate Fire Brigade Route Cards
Based on the created floor plan, the Fire Alarm System Trainer automatically generates the required fire brigade route cards.
These can then be customised, for example by adjusting the access route or adding building-specific information.
During training, participants use the information displayed at the FIZ to select the correct fire brigade route card, interpret the information shown and follow the route to the activated detector.
This means that participants do not just learn how a fire brigade route card is structured – they actually have to use it.
Use Existing Fire Brigade Route Cards Directly
If a fire brigade route card already exists for a building, there is no need to recreate the building in the floor plan editor first.
Existing fire brigade route cards can be imported as an image or PDF. The corresponding detectors can then be positioned directly on the route card and assigned to the appropriate detector groups.
This makes it possible, for example, to train using the original fire brigade route cards of a building within your own response area.
This is particularly useful for preparing firefighters specifically for buildings they may actually encounter during an incident.
Up to Four Devices for Different Roles
Depending on the training objective, an exercise can be distributed across up to four devices. This means that participants do not all have to work together in front of a single screen; instead, individual stations and roles can be displayed separately.
One device serves as the FSD, while another represents the FIZ.
An additional device can be used for the attack team. The selected fire brigade route card is transferred digitally at the FIZ and is then available on this device for further investigation.
With the pager role, an additional device can receive the corresponding alarms.
The individual devices can be positioned separately throughout the training room. This creates physical movement between the FSD, FIZ and the subsequent investigation, making the different tasks within the incident procedure more tangible.
The Instructor Controls the Incident Scenario
The instructor determines how each exercise unfolds.
The instructor selects the building, starts the exercise and deliberately triggers one or more detectors. Additional alarms and events can be introduced while the exercise is in progress.
This allows the level of difficulty to be increased gradually.
For example, an exercise can begin with a single detector activation. Additional detector groups, subsequent alarms or other events can then be introduced as the exercise progresses.
This allows the same procedure to be repeated as often as necessary until it can be carried out confidently – without having to prepare a new exercise each time.
Train Different Scenarios
The Fire Alarm System Trainer makes it possible to create and combine different incident scenarios for targeted training.
Training scenarios can include, for example:
- individual activated detectors
- multiple activated detectors or detector groups
- subsequent alarms during an ongoing investigation
- different building areas and floors
- selection and interpretation of different fire brigade route cards
- additional events, such as the activation of a fire suppression system
- communication and information sharing within the team
- resetting the fire alarm system and completing the incident
By switching between different buildings and incident scenarios, participants learn more than just a fixed procedure. They have to continually reassess the available information and apply it to the specific situation.
From the Training Room to a Real Building
Exercises prepared in the training room can then also be transferred to a real building.
A previously created building or imported fire brigade route cards can continue to be used while participants physically follow the corresponding routes through the building.
Our detector mock-ups can also be used to simulate an activated detector on site. The mock-ups are placed at the corresponding locations and can be activated with a flashing signal.
This allows the training to be expanded step by step:
Understand the procedure → practise it in the training room → apply it in a real building.
Repeat Fire Alarm System Procedures Until They Become Routine
The key advantage of training in the classroom is that exercises can be repeated as often as needed. There is no need to have access to a real fire alarm system or to prepare an entire training building for each new exercise.
A scenario can be started, evaluated, modified and repeated immediately.
This allows firefighters to regularly practise operating procedures, the use of fire brigade route cards, information sharing and the tactical steps involved in a fire alarm system incident.
The Fire Alarm System Trainer provides a training environment in which the procedure of a fire alarm system incident is not just discussed – it is actually practised step by step.
