Addressable RF Fire Detection System

Our addressable RF fire detection system turns the analogue smoke detectors already installed in a building into a wireless network in which every detector is individually identified, without removing them. We carried out this conversion at Sivas Cumhuriyet Technopark in 2025 across 420 detectors, and the system is in service today in the Tekno 1 and Tekno 2 buildings.

What it does

When a conventional analogue fire detection system raises an alarm, staff often learn little more than "there is smoke somewhere". Finding the room means walking the floors. Our retrofit closes that gap:

• Every detector has an address. Each detector in the system carries its own address and a recorded location.
• Events arrive with their location. When an alarm or a fault occurs, the system shows the building, floor, office and detector it came from.
• Everything is monitored centrally. Detector status and event records are followed from a central web interface.

Responders can head straight to the right spot instead of spending time searching for the source of the alarm.

How it works

The starting point is not selling a new fire system but upgrading the one that is already there. The general flow:

1. Survey the existing installation. We assess the design and electronics of the building's analogue detectors.
2. Add RF and addressing. The working detectors stay in place; we add electronics that give each one wireless communication and a unique address.
3. Map each detector to its location. Every address is linked to its building, floor and office.
4. Connect the network to central monitoring. Status data from the detectors is collected in the web interface, and events are displayed together with their location.

Because the detectors communicate wirelessly, there is no need to open walls and lay new signal lines in an occupied building. This makes the work much easier to carry out in office buildings that stay in use throughout the project.

Technology

At its core this is a hardware design job. Upgrading an old system without tearing it out means reading the existing device's electronics, understanding its limits and designing the add-on board around them. Our own team develops the circuit board design, the communication firmware and the monitoring interface.

Main components of the system:

Component	Role
Detector-side RF electronics	Gives an analogue detector wireless communication and a unique address
RF network	Carries detector status and event data to the central point
Web monitoring interface	Shows detector status and events together with their location

At the Technopark installation, 420 detectors communicate within the same RF network, and each one appears in the monitoring interface at its own location. The system is in active operation in the Technopark's Tekno 1 and Tekno 2 buildings.

Where it is used

Addressable RF conversion is intended for buildings where installing a new wired system would be difficult or disruptive:

• Office buildings and technology parks that are in daily use, where renovation work would interrupt operations
• Campus-style sites made up of several blocks
• Public and private buildings whose analogue detectors still work but whose operators want to see exactly where each alarm comes from

Since every building has its own detector layout, the scope of each project is defined after a site survey. The system does not replace a building's legal fire safety obligations; it should be seen as a conversion that makes the existing installation traceable.

The server room temperature and humidity monitoring and boiler automation systems we installed on the same campus follow the same central monitoring approach. To request an assessment for your building, please get in touch through our contact page.