Fire-Equipment

Carbon Monoxide Detectors

Carbon monoxide is toxic and deadly, exposure to its will cause you to lose consciousness and die eventually. Regular smoke detectors are not able to pick up traces of carbon monoxide in the air. A Carbon Monoxide detector has been in the market for the past 17 years and innovation has spewed patents of CO detection.

Biomematic detection- CO is detected through chem-optical. Chemical changes on a strip of material were detected by way of changing colors. The strip has synthetic hemoglobin that will darken when CO is detected. This form of sensor detection triggers an alarm when the concentration of CO is high.

Electro Chemical detection- concentrated amounts of CO is sensed through a chemical reaction with the CO detector unit by way of electric current. The electric current emitted by the detector unit seeks out CO concentrate. The process to do this is called electrolysis. Complex as it sounds, it is the most effective CO sensors in the market.

Semi-Conductor detection- with the use of tin dioxide, this sensor scans the air for CO and when the emission is too high the whole unit will alarm (along with the others in the building).

Detection may be done by one unit installed in a particular area, but since wires connect the CO detectors only one precess is needed to trigger the alarm.