HazardWatch Integrated Fire & Gas Detection System Is FM Certified To NFPA 72 Compliance

Ideal for Oil/Gas Offshore Drilling Platforms, Pipelines, LNG & LPG Plants, Refineries, Marine Fuel Load/Unload Facilities, Chemical Plants, Electric Power Generation

Lake Forest, CA — The HazardWatch Integrated Fire & Gas Detection System from General Monitors sets a new industry standard for highly intelligent safety monitoring solutions designed to help process and plant engineers protect their operations, equipment and staff from fire and combustible gases while meeting the world's most demanding safety standards.

Offering intelligence, flexibility and reliability, the HazardWatch System's controller, hardware configuration and software have been tested and certified by Factory Mutual to verify NFPA 72 compliance. This includes certification for central station monitoring, as both a fire alarm panel and gas controller, for fault tolerant digital communications and as a releasing control panel.

HazardWatch is an innovative, modular system that combines a highly reliable programmable logic controller (PLC) platform with General Monitors' advanced gas and flame field devices. It is highly scalable, making it suitable for small systems to large plant-wide applications. Up to 13 local gas and fire alarm panels can operate over a wide network of up to 25 kilometers in length.

The HazardWatch System features a standalone local fire and gas alarm panel with a color touch screen with an easy-to-use, human-machine interface (HMI) that is also FM approved for central station monitoring. The system's optional HazardNet dual media (coaxial cable or fiber optic) fault tolerant communications network supports communication between the local gas and flame panels and optional HazardWatch Central Station with a HazardView Workstation that is AC-powered with UPS back-up.

HazardWatch supports MODBUS, Ethernet or ControlNet communication for interfacing with DCS or ESD systems. Integration with third party devices such as horns, beacons, smoke detectors and suppression systems is flexible, simple and reliable. HazardWatch comes complete with a power system and battery back-up that complies with NFPA 72 standards.

HazardWatch is ideal for a broad range of monitoring applications in demanding industries. It is designed for use in oil/gas production, petrochemical refining, LNG & LPG plants and pipelines, electric power generation, aerospace launch facilities, warehouse and storage facilities, automotive plants and any industry where hydrocarbon vapors are a potential threat.