Support and clarity for manufacturers:
The increasingly digital design of pipework for aspirating smoke detectors is not yet covered by the harmonised EN 54-20. At the request of its partners, VdS now publishes clear and norm-compliant specifications for a functionally safe design.
Press Release 19/2024
Cologne/Germany, September 02nd 2024. Pipe networks for aspirating smoke detectors are now often designed digitally. A practice not clearly taken into account in the EU-wide binding standard EN 54-20: There are no specific requirements for dealing with the relatively new design programs. So manufacturers had to spend extra time and money on having their software separately legitimised during the well-known innovation-supporting VdS-Approvals.
“For facilitating and reassuring their development work, our partners understandably wanted clear standards in black on white”, explains Rafael Bernsdorf, head of the VdS laboratories for special fire detection technology products. “This is exactly what we now provide with our precise and compact Guidelines. They can be downloaded for free and are, of course, fully compliant with existing standards while supporting the potential of modern safety systems."
The new publication VdS 6036, “Aspirating Smoke Detectors with a Design Software for Sampling Devices”, is available at www.vds-shop.de/en. Accurate guidance on threshold values, transport time, pipe topology and sensitivity of the sampling points ensure that digitally designed pipe networks function reliably.
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