Bosch deploys its fire detection technology at the Campinas Hospital in Brazil

This urban hospital in the Brazilian state of São Paulo has installed fire panels and networked detection devices Bosch that provide comprehensive security coverage, networked and compatible throughout the complex.

He Campinas Medical Center Hospital is a reference in health in the state of São Paulo (Brazil). Founded in 1973, the medical facility has undergone various renovations and updates, with the expansion of its facilities into several buildings to meet patient demand.

These renovations have included design changes, with the review of fire safety regulations and installation of fire panels from various manufacturers during each stage.

All of this meant that the center had eleven different fire control centers, all operating separately; each with its own monitoring, cleaning and maintenance individually, in addition to spare parts and service support that weren’t even available in Brazil.

All these 'system conflicts' and other incompatibilities between the older equipment and the new ones resulted in a partially disconnected fire detection system and, therefore, with many hazards.

Eduardo Riguetti, fire safety manager of the hospital complex, contacted the representative of Bosch in Campinas, Renato Lima, to seek a viable solution, whose main objective was to review and redevelop the entire fire alarm system of the hospital.

The main challenge the project team had to overcome was the integration and consolidation of all the data and configurations from the eleven fire control panels into one. Si bien, Effective cooperation among all parties involved and Bosch technology managed to solve this problem.

The fire control network now has a modular control panel serie 5000 which manages the other detection devices, with improvements in operation and maintenance by the users. This makes system updates and response times in case of an incident much faster than before, lo que optimiza la seguridad en todo el hospital.

Besides, se han integrado cinco módulos de lazo para cubrir todas las áreas del Hospital Centro Médico Campinas y así garantizar la fiabilidad en la detección. Estos incluyen entornos sensibles como las UCI, los quirófanos, las salas de pacientes y el laboratorio del centro. La conectividad inteligente de la nueva red permite a los técnicos realizar el mantenimiento con una mínima perturbación en estas áreas.

As part of the project, también se han configurado tres teclados remotos, conectados por Ethernet a la central de incendios, para las tres áreas de control del hospital que disponen de personal de manera ininterrumpida, como la recepción de la entrada principal, the on-site fire department and the operations and control center.

This interconnectivity and remote technology decentralize the control of the entire fire alarm network and make it fully addressable. The fire department can now quickly identify the exact location of a fire or other emergency incident.

The system has been integrated with gas detection, sprinklers and access control, so, in case an incident occurs, all the doors of the facility would unlock, since with the current and only fire control panel evacuation times are much faster and safer”.