Fire Department Improves Life Safety with Electronically Monitored Fire Extinguishers

WRM Consulting Ltd.
November 10, 2006

Suffolk County Sheriff  announced that more than 175 electronically monitored fire extinguishers were installed in two of the Department’s correctional facilities – the Suffolk County House of Correction at South Bay and the Suffolk County Jail on Nashua Street, both in Boston, Massachusetts.

The extinguisher monitoring technology, en-Gauge was developed and installed by Rockland, MA-based MIJA, Inc. en-Gauge allows the fire extinguishers to be tied into a stand-alone monitoring system located in Central Operations in both facilities.

Electronic monitoring of fire extinguishers is also recognized by the two national code bodies in the United States – the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the International Codes Council. Each of these bodies allows electronic monitoring in lieu of 30-day physical inspections – saving facilities from the once labor and time intensive job of manually inspecting each device.