Basis of your Approval:
VdS-Guidelines setting safety standards worldwide
(with precise support for networking, smart embedding + other important functions).
Safety and construction press call them "technical bibles": VdS-Guidelines, the basis of our approvals - and often fundament of EU and worldwide ISO standards. In the unique VdS certification model, we combine over 115 years of fire protection experience - and cover the complete product family for you from a single source:
The standard work in our industry:
Together with the fire brigade experts of the non-profit vfdb (Association for the Promotion of German Fire Protection), we formulated increased requirements for smoke alarm devices. Since then, the Guidelines VdS 3131 and, with the same wording, vfdb 14/1 have been the standard work for the testing and certification of these important lifesavers.
The Guidelines VdS 3131 offer you practical assistance for maximum reliability, quality of workmanship and usability - in short: precise specifications for reliably saving human lives.
Further VdS back-up, also all available for free download:
Practical options for making safe use of the trend topic "networking / radio communication". VdS 3515
Precise development Guidelines for smoke alarms on the power supply and in the system. VdS 3130
Future-oriented ideas are easier to realise and, above all, completely secured: We bring the EN specifications in line with the opportunities offered by state-of-the-art technology (and offer the first approach of a combination with other safety-related functions). VdS 3438-3
No standards or even VdS-Guidelines for your innovations yet?
We still ensure your rapid market success: through individual test agreements developed together with you. These agreements often form the basis of new VdS-Guidelines or EN standards - years later.
This way, your innovations are synonymous with optimum safety from the very beginning - and we directly offer you the decisive sales argument: Clearly proven safety, visible at first glance.