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Honeywell Fire Alarm System Enhances Passenger and Employee Safety at
St. Louis International Airport

With 14 million annual passengers and 756 daily arrivals and
departures, Lambert is one of North America's top 25 busiest
airports.

Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is ranked among the top 25
busiest airports in North America for aircraft operations and
passengers. It has a significant $5.1 billion annual economic impact
on the St. Louis region. The airport houses 10 major airlines, 15
commuter airlines, five on-site Air Cargo Airlines, and two major
charter companies that use the 83 gates within the facility's four
concourses. In 2004, Lambert saw 14 million passengers, with
approximately 756 average daily arrivals and departures.

The Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is a property that is also
expanding rapidly. While the airport currently sits on approximately
2,162 acres of land, an additional 1,544 acres will be annexed through
an expansion program that will be completed in 2006. It will be the
largest capital improvement project in St. Louis history.

Business at Lambert-St. Louis international airport is thriving.
Consequently, the airport is in the midst of a major upgrade to its
fire alarm systems.

The systems are being provided by NOTIFIER, a Honeywell commercial
fire alarm system. The decision to utilize NOTIFIER was not a
difficult one. About five years ago, the East Terminal - constructed
specifically for Southwest Airlines - was upgraded with two NOTIFIER
intelligent fire alarm control systems and five Audio Command Centers
installed and networked over fiber optic cable. Technologically, these
systems were a quantum leap over the hard-wired systems that were
previously in place and provided a level of control that airport
management had never seen before in its fire protection equipment.

Leroy Ginther, project manager for Tech Electronics, the company
handling the airport upgrades, said the main catalyst for the
enhancements was increased control.

"With the airport expansion in the offing, there would be more
territory to protect and a need to respond to emergencies more quickly
and effectively," Ginther said. "Management knew the technology of its
older systems would be insufficient to meet those needs. They wanted
intelligent systems with PC graphical workstations to visually
identify the source of a fire."

Now, with this most recent improvement, both the East Terminal and the
Main Terminal will be protected with a NOTI-FIRE-NET intelligent fire
alarm network system, creating a networked fire alarm system with 43
nodes.

The emergency voice evacuation system will communicate over the fire
alarm system's speakers, and will eventually be integrated into the
airport's general paging system (also installed by Tech Electronics).
The control that this new system will afford airport management cannot
be overstated. The concourses are divided into zones; consequently, if
something happens in D concourse, only that concourse will receive a
page, and only the specific part of the concourse area that is
affected will be evacuated.

The NOTI·FIRE·NET intelligent fire alarm network links multiple
NOTIFIER intelligent fire alarm control panels together as one,
providing network-wide cooperative control and monitoring throughout
the entire airport. Each fire alarm panel on NOTI·FIRE·NET maintains
individual programming and continues to operate independently, yet
cohesively, as part of a unified network. This prevents the loss of a
single node from compromising other panels. The result is improved
system survivability. NOTI-FIRE-NET grows and expands as the needs of
the facility increase, making it ideal for upgrades, retrofits and
multi-phase installation projects such as Lambert-St. Louis Int'l
Airport.

The graphics on the systems are a welcome feature, according to
Ginther. "We are putting CAD drawings of the building on the NCS so
that airport personnel can graphically see the outlines of the
building," he said. "With these graphics, personnel will be able to
see the exact component that is producing the alarm."

The ability of the system to detect false alarms is also critical, and
that's where NOTIFIER's ONYX Intelligent Sensing comes into play. A
restaurant may accidentally set off an alarm in a cooking mishap, but
by using ONYX Intelligent Sensing software algorithms found in all
NOTIFIER fire alarm control panels, the system can quickly determine
whether it is a real emergency or simply a burnt meal.

Ginther addressed the issue of adequate fire protection in a unique
facility like an airport.

"Think about the overwhelming number of people who are being processed
at any one time in an airport," he said. "Think about all of the
security stations, all of the concourses, the long lines, people
waiting for flights, people in restrooms. And then there are the
employees to consider as well. A successful evacuation procedure must
be carefully coordinated and executed with the utmost precision to
ensure maximum safety.

"That's why the NOTIFIER systems at Lambert are so important. It's not
only critical to be able to quickly identify the source of a fire, but
also to be able to distinguish a false alarm from the real thing. In a
real emergency, it is also essential to have control over the
situation, so that only the people who are potentially affected by the
fire are alerted."

Without question, the NOTIFIER systems are protecting Lambert's
passengers and employees.

For more information on NOTIFIER systems, visit http://www.notifier.com/home.htm