Johnson Controls says its new Johnson Controls Digital Enrollment mobile application is the fire detection industry’s first mobile app of its kind for auto-addressing fire detection and alarm devices.
The company explained: “By simply scanning and downloading data via a QR code located on each addressable device, the Digital Enrollment app provides an addressing solution that helps eliminate errors and is faster than traditional methods, with no special tools required.”
The app lets users install and configure addressable fire detection devices like point detectors, notification devices, call points, and ancillaries offered under the Johnson Controls brands, including FireClass and Zettler.
Martin Schulte-Frankenfeld, Senior director of Product Management, Fire Detection, at Johnson Controls, said: “The Digital Enrollment app gives teams a tool that makes fire detection system installation and configuration quicker, easier, and more reliable than previous methods, right from their smartphones or tablets.”
Users have two workflow options for completing a new fire alarm system installation – the recommended one being to create a device list on the mobile app and ‘sync’ it using the app’s panel configuration tool. Alternately, installers can download the device list from the configuration tool and sync that list with the serial numbers using the mobile app.
Each device’s QR code contains a serial number, SKU (part number) code, model number, and manufacturing date. The QR codes also provide access to product-specific data such as tech pubs, certificates, pricing, and ordering info. In addition to new system installations, the Digital Enrollment app and QR code make it easier to reconcile the replacement of faulty or dirty devices.