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FIRE & LIFE SAFETY FOR THE FUTURE

Founded in 1872, Edwards has never stopped pursuing a passion for protection, with innovations in fire and life safety that will future-proof your facility.
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NEW Optica Duct Smoke Detector Unveiled at NFPA
Edwards is excited to unveil the Optica™ Duct Smoke Detector at the NFPA Conference & Expo. This innovative detector tackles moisture and dust challenges in HVAC environments, reducing nuisance alarms and enhancing fire safety. Visit Edwards' booth (#1900) to learn more.
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CREATE A SAFER & HEALTHIER BUILDING
See how Edwards can help you create an environment that positively impacts the health and safety of the people inside.
Healthcare

Healthcare Applications Learn More About Healthcare Applications

Edwards is proud to provide flexible fire and life safety solutions for hospitals and assisted living facilities across the country. Our products and systems have been optimized for backward compatibility and are equipped with advanced technology, so facility and operations managers enjoy greater efficiency and higher visibility with fewer barriers than ever before.

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Equip your healthcare facility or assisted living center with advanced panel technology, so you can focus on patients, residents, and staff, not on disruptions. With proxy firewalls to protect against cyber threats, Edwards’ intelligent panels streamline fire and life safety systems for healthcare facilities of any size.

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Streamline your systems with an advanced control platform from Edwards. Designed to easily integrate with building systems, an Edwards solution provides you with a comprehensive facility view. With user-friendly operations and monitoring capabilities, an Edwards solution puts the power in your hands.

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Protect your healthcare facility or assisted living center with help from intelligent smoke detectors from Edwards. Equipped with patented optical sensors, Signature Optica™ smoke detectors differentiate between nuisance particles and serious threats, reducing false alarms and keeping you ahead of UL code updates.

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Hospitality Applications Learn More About Hospitality Applications

Edwards has engineered truly scalable solutions for a large variety of hospitality applications, with products that have been optimized to evolve with your facility. Advanced technology will keep your guests safe and comfortable, while providing necessary staff with holistic monitoring capabilities to minimize interruptions and improve outcomes.

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Provide your guests with a nuisance alarm-free stay with Signature Optica™ smoke detectors. Equipped with patented optical sensors, Optica can differentiate between nuisance particles and serious threats, reducing false alarms. Optica even allows for staff to see where an event is occurring in the facility and target their response accordingly.

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Minimize interruptions for your guests with a notification system that can keep staff informed without a property-wide alarm. With remote, on-the-go status monitoring, staff will be able to address issues quickly and efficiently, reducing overall downtime and improving responses while maintaining a pleasant guest experience.

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Keep your fire and life safety systems up to date with integrated backward compatibility features that will enable you to stay ahead of the curve with efficient investment on total system overhauls as technology evolves over time.

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Industrial

Industrial Applications Learn More About Industrial Applications

Edwards understands that in industrial settings, it's important to have a reliable, scalable fire and life safety solution that can be customized to suit your unique facility’s current needs and future evolutions. With highly intelligible communications systems, high-sensitivity detectors, and robust, backward compatible appliances, you can trust that an Edwards solution will safeguard your facility without compromising your investment.

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Experience the difference a high-definition HyperSpike® speaker can make for your industrial environment. These lightweight, sophisticated speakers can replace multiple units while reproducing some of the clearest, loudest audio signals available, resulting in lower costs and improved communications.

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Protect your industrial facility with ModuLaser® detectors, highly sophisticated aspirating smoke detectors that incorporate patented artificial intelligence technology to continually optimize sensitivity and enhance protection in virtually any environment. With superior early warning features and minimal chance of nuisance alarms, you can trust ModuLaser detectors to protect your facility with ease.

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Equip your facility with rugged smoke detectors that can withstand the most demanding environments without succumbing to malfunction. Edwards products have been tested and proven to be explosion-proof, so you don’t have to choose between long-lasting and high-performance fire and life safety solutions.

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Never compromise on communication again, thanks to mass notification solutions from Edwards. Pair our top-rated HyperSpike® speakers with FireWorks® incident management platform to experience voice annunciated, facility-wide communication that can communicate across large spaces. Easily share emergency protocol information with your entire facility to expedite necessary action and minimize danger.

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Commercial

Commercial Applications Learn More About Commercial Applications

With flexible, customizable solutions, Edwards can provide a fire and life safety system no matter how complex your commercial facility may be, with advanced technologies that allow for integration with other building systems. Edwards products are equipped with backward compatible features so that they work with legacy components, while protecting your investment with forward migration capabilities that evolve with your facility.

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Simplify your facility systems with a comprehensive fire and life safety solution that will integrate with other building systems through a standard open architecture. With streamlined oversight, staff will enjoy intuitive building management while innovations from Edwards keep your facility ahead of building codes.

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Equip your facility with cutting edge panel technology so you can focus on providing a healthy and safe environment that experiences minimal unnecessary disruptions. Best of all, solutions from Edwards are scalable to protect multiple building layouts, making it easy to streamline your systems across large campuses.

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Enjoy agile monitoring and comprehensive building oversight thanks to remote system access, which allows staff to keep an eye on your commercial facility from anywhere with internet access. Meanwhile, advanced security features such as proxy firewalls make your Edwards system safe from cyber-attacks.

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K-12 Education

K-12 Education Applications Learn More About K-12 Education Applications

Edwards is the ideal collaborator for schools and school systems thanks to backward compatible fire and life safety solutions that can be upgraded when and where necessary and components that can be updated and expanded as your school environment evolves. With system interfaces that are intuitive to use and products that are easy to maintain, an Edwards solution is the ideal choice for school settings.

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Streamline your school's audio systems with a voice evacuation system that can also function as an intercom. A voice evacuation solution from Edwards is equipped with crystal clear speaker annunciation to provide students and staff with voice-directed alerts for emergency events.

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Specify a system that can grow with your facility thanks to the scalable solutions from Edwards. Easily add additional or new components to your system as your school grows and changes, so you can protect students, teachers, and staff.

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Keep your fire and life safety systems up to date with integrated backward compatibility features that will enable you to stay ahead of the curve with efficient investment on total system overhauls as technology evolves over time.

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Building System Integration ×

Streamline your systems with an advanced control platform from Edwards. Designed to easily integrate with building systems, an Edwards solution provides you with a comprehensive facility view. With user-friendly operations and monitoring capabilities, an Edwards solution puts the power in your hands.

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University

University Applications Learn More About University Applications

Edwards has developed exceptional fire and life safety solutions for university applications, with scalable, flexible systems that can protect everything from multi-student residential buildings to the most specialized classroom environments. With efficient and effective mass notification options, holistic monitoring and oversight, and backward compatible features, an Edwards system is the ideal solution for university campuses.

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Don’t rely on text alerts alone. Protect your students, faculty, and staff with a reliable mass notification system that provides an added layer of security to your Incident Management Plan in the event of a life safety threat.

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Specify a system that covers your students, faculty, and staff wherever they are on campus thanks to a system with integrated forward migration features, so you can keep your campus covered without investing in total system overhauls.

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Minimize nuisance alarms in multi-student housing complexes with help from Signature Optica™ smoke detectors. The first detector to receive certification to the UL 268, 7th edition standards, Signature Optica is able to differentiate between nuisance particles and serious threats, reducing disruptions and lowering operating costs.

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Streamline your systems with an advanced control platform from Edwards. Designed to easily integrate with building systems, an Edwards solution provides you with a comprehensive facility view. With user-friendly operations and monitoring capabilities, an Edwards solution puts the power in your hands.

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Government

Government Applications Learn More About Government Applications

Safeguard the people and property of your government with an intelligent fire and life safety solution from Edwards. Engineered to evolve with your facility, an Edwards system is backed by a network of professionals with decades of experience in meeting the life safety needs of governments, with robust cybersecurity measures and cost-effective optimization of systems, products, and components.

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Maximize your investment while ensuring your fire and life safety system stays up to date with integrated backward compatibility features from Edwards. Stay ahead of the curve – and the building codes – with efficient tools and features that keep your facility current.

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Building System Integration ×

Streamline your systems with an advanced control platform from Edwards. Designed to easily with integrate building systems, an Edwards solution provides you with a comprehensive fire and life safety view. With user-friendly operations and monitoring capabilities, an Edwards solution puts the power in the hands of the user.

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Specify a system that you can count on thanks to the field-tested solutions from Edwards. Equipped with survivability features such as cloud-based system backups and distributed intelligence, fire and life safety systems from Edwards are designed to stand the test of time.

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Safeguard your fire and life safety system from outside threats thanks to lock-tight cybersecurity measures. We’ve equipped all our networked components with advanced cyber safety features, to help protect your facility.

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INNOVATIONS FROM EDWARDS
Fire and life safety solutions from Edwards are modular, scalable, and versatile enough to meet the needs of many projects and facilities. Whether you’re updating your smoke detectors, notification devices, or entire fire alarm panel, you can rest assured knowing we have designed most of our products to work together across generations, improving the value of your original investment.
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LIFE SAFETY SYSTEMS
Experience the industry's most advanced life safety and emergency communications platforms thanks to innovations from Edwards. Our life safety systems make fire alarm, mass notification, and building integration easy to implement, quick to service, and secure in the face of cyber threats.
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DETECTION
With pioneering work in multisensory technology to award-winning design breakthroughs, Edwards is proud to offer an extensive range of detection devices.
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NOTIFICATION
Notification appliances from Edwards are equipped with the latest technology, paired with the looks and features facilities of all sizes require. Enjoy on-demand notification in every application with an unparalleled range of field-configurable options.
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INCIDENT MANAGEMENT & MASS NOTIFICATION
Pair our powerful software platform, FireWorks® Command and Control, with highly intelligible HyperSpike® speakers to achieve the utmost in incident management and mass notification.
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CONNECTED SOLUTIONS
Edwards ConnectedSafety+ is a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that provides a secure, remote connection to Edwards EST4 intelligent fire and life safety systems. Only Edwards service providers can access the ESTMobile™ digital solution for iO Series intelligent life safety panels, which streamlines site visits and empowers proactive customer service.
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EMERGENCY RESPONDER COMMUNICATION ENHANCEMENT SYSTEMS (ERCES)
Achieve exceptional connectivity inside any building thanks to Emergency Responder Communication Enhancement Systems from ADRF and Edwards. Our strategic agreement with ADRF enables us to provide you with access to best-in-class signal boosters, repeaters, backups, and more.
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THE EDWARDS PARTNER NETWORK
Only Edwards can deliver unparalleled levels of service for your specific application or facility because Edwards is powered by an extensive Partner Network, spanning North America. Thanks to this network of industry professionals, solutions to your needs are readily available from experts who will work with you to protect your facility with innovative, and customized fire and life safety solutions.

 

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FUTURE-PROOF YOUR FACILITY

When it's time to upgrade your fire and life safety system, Edwards understands that a total system replacement can be daunting. That's why we have prioritized backward features in our new product designs, supporting our legacy solutions while improving and protecting the value of your investment.

Forward Migration For The Future
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EST4 CYBERSECURITY:
SHAPING THE FUTURE, SETTING THE STANDARD

Cybersecurity is defined by Merriam-Webster as "the measures taken to protect a computer or computer system (on the internet) against unauthorized access or attack." How does this apply to fire alarm systems that traditionally haven't connected to the internet like computers? Find out in this informative and detailed white paper, where we explore the new cybersecurity needs of a modern life safety system.

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FIREside CHAT WEBINAR SERIES

Introducing FIREside Chat - a webinar series brought to you by the Strategic Accounts Team at Edwards, where we discuss news, trends, and technology impacting the fire and life safety community with subject matter experts in fire alarm, mass notification, and emergency communications.

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Signature Optica University Housing
In this case study, a large New Jersey university drastically reduces nuisance fire alarms thanks to Edwards Signature Optica smoke detectors.
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EST4 Residential Construction
In this case study, a residential building owner saved approximately 25% of the installation cost by switching to the EST4 fire alarm control panel.
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Signature Optica™ Overview
In this video, we will demonstrate how the patented optical sensing in Signature Optica™ detectors can help reduce nuisance alarms.
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HyperSpike® Speakers Demonstration
Take a front row seat as we demonstrate the power, performance, and flexibility of HyperSpike® mass notification speakers.
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Fire Detection & Alarm Systems
In this eBook, we'll provide an overview of the product landscape so you can engage in more informed discussions about fire and life safety solutions for your building.