- Author
- Bamert, A. E.
- Title
- Welchen Prinzipien haben Normen, Pruf- und Zertifizierungsverfahren zu genugen, damit sie die Entwicklung benutzerfreundlicher Systeme fordern und nicht hemmen? [What Principles Have Standards, Test Methods, and Certification Procedures to Conform to so That They Will Aid Rather Than Hinder the Development of User Friendly Systems?]
- Coporate
- BVD/SPI, Zurich, Switzerland
- Book or Conf
- University of Duisburg. International Conference on Automatic Fire Detection "AUBE '95", 10th. Proceedings. [Internationale Konferenz uber Automatischen Brandentdeckung.] April 4-6, 1995, Duisburg, Germany, Luck, H., Editors, 43-54 p., 1995
- Keywords
- fire detection | fire detection systems | standards | test methods | certification
- Abstract
- [ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH] An "efficient, reliable and user friendly fire alarm technology" meeting today's market's demands needs new, purposeful guidelines for planning, construction and maintenance as well as appropriate product norms with adapted test demands, test methods, and test certificates. Products have to be made, tested, and certified according to CEN/CENELEC-, ISO- or other equiavlent norms if they are to be sold unlimited without technical trade barriers. The private institutions which are charged with the elaboration of guidelines and norms are, following the standards of technology and science, obliged to remedy in time the faults in the respective documents and open the doors for new technologies. A problem of the existing guidelines and norms lies in the fact that they organise details but contain only few or no rules to aims of security systems. The technology existing at the time of planning a guideline or norm determined these details which are often unnecessary and nearly invincible obstacles to new technologies and developments. Too much regulation restrict the necessary flexibility for efficient and user friendly solutions, and they hold producers and system owners in the same way in tutelage. Fortunately these restrictions have paralysed only little of the creativity of the concerned firms. It may be mentioned that new products have been created which will bring essential progress to the fulfilment of the customer's needs.