Reliable, scalable detection solutions

Johnson Controls is your life-safety service partner in fire detection. We’re constantly advancing safety and security by creating smarter ways to save lives, improve business, and protect people where they live and work. With our 150 years of expertise, deep customer knowledge, and innovative technologies, we are the experts who understand your business challenges and can be relied on to deliver the solution that best addresses your fire-safety needs.

Solutions

Our fire safety solutions

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Control unit installation and services

Our control units are the heart of robust and scalable fire- and life-safety communications. Intelligent, configurable, and expandable, they can meet a wide range of applications. We also offer cost-effective means to maintain or expand your capabilities — whether that includes product features, system design, training, risk assessments, or ongoing maintenance.

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Notification solutions and services

Our revolutionary self-testing capability enables testing through control units, greatly reducing interruptions to building occupants and business operations. The devices are electronically supervised 24/7, giving facility managers greater control and confidence that systems are ready to perform. Notifications come via texts, horns, strobes, or speakers. Our advanced addressable notification solutions can help protect your people, property, and business operations.

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Network solutions

Network solutions are an efficient way to help protect large or complex facilities. Networking helps improve survivability. For example, fire detection networks can allow units to communicate on the evacuation of a specific block of floors versus an entire building. Our solutions also offer client server capability, creating the ability to monitor activity from anywhere.

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Smoke and carbon monoxide detection solutions

Our innovative software and electronics offer stable singular or combined smoke and carbon monoxide detectors with the quickest response time and less nuisance. Our patented TrueAlarm sensors are one of the industry’s most stable line of detection devices available with addressable modules that can provide addressability to conventional devices.

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Foundation series

The Foundation series is a complete family of control units and peripheral devices designed specifically for small to midsize buildings. It includes both conventional and addressable control units that are easy for technicians to install and program.

Products

Firefighter Air Replenishment Systems

Firefighter Air Replenishment Systems (FARS)

Learn more about FARS - standpipes that deliver a quick, safe, reliable and constant source of breathing air to firefighters.

A Heritage Video on Johnson Controls' Fire Detection Brand – Zettler

A heritage video on Johnson Controls' Fire Detection brand – Zettler.  Since its founding in Germany in 1877, ZETTLER has been recognized for providing custom communication and fire detection systems that push the industry forward.

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A heritage Video on Johnson Controls' Fire Detection Brand – Autocall

Founded in 1908, the Autocall fire detection brand has a legacy built on innovation that meets real-life needs, starting with a 120V AC coded fire alarm system.

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A Heritage Video on Johnson Controls' Fire Detection Brand - Simplex

Simplex, a UL-listed, global brand, was founded in the late 1800s. This brand traces its history to the creation of the first practical time clock, as well as the first synchronized clock system – an innovation used in schools worldwide for decades.

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Industry-specific solutions from Johnson Controls

Fire Detection Services

Fire Maintenance and Support
Protecting critical assets through professional care.
Design Services
Expert fire and life safety system planning and design.

Explore our range of Fire Detection services

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Design, installation, and project management

Johnson Controls has the expert teams to guide your fire detection project from initial planning and design through engineering, and construction to final execution and approvals. 

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Inspection, testing, and maintenance

Johnson Controls offers a suite of advanced connected life-safety services and technologies powered by OpenBlue. This suite is combined with our technicians’ extensive industry knowledge and training to help ensure improved performance and reliability, code compliance, and operational efficiency of customers’ fire- and life-safety systems. 

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Building Automation and Controls

Intelligent solutions to generate continuous improvement in efficiency and productivity.

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