Tag: Modern System Concepts
Integrator creates inspection app
August 15, 2018Spencer Ives
HOUSTON—Four years ago, Houston-based integrator Modern System Concepts developed an app to ease fire inspections. Now, it's redesigned the app, named fireNspec, to be more scalable and is rolling it out through a separate company, PnewSoft.“It's an inspection app which was designed for the fire industry, but it's grown legs in the fact that it can actually do any kind of inspection whether it be security, or cameras, or anything of that nature,” Mark Popkowski, CEO of PnewSoft...
New edition of NFPA 72 to be more user friendly
April 18, 2012Tess Nacelewicz
YARMOUTH, Maine—Come this fall, you won't have to flip through the several hundred pages of NFPA 72, the National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code, to find documentation requirements. Now, in the new 2013 edition, you'll find the requirements all laid out for you in one chapter.
“There is one significant new chapter in the 2013 edition, a chapter on documentation requirements,” Lee Richardson, National Fire Protection Association staff liaison for NFPA 72, told Security...
Modern System Concepts likes communicator
April 11, 2012Tess Nacelewicz
LAS VEGAS—Phone lines were causing problems on a project that Modern System Concepts undertook to upgrade a utility provider's fire systems, said Mark Popkowski, company owner and president.
That's why Popkowski said Modern, based in Katy, Texas, is turning to Fire-Lite's IPGSM-DP fire alarm communicator as a solution.
The communicator offers a choice of either IP or GSM cellular as the main pathway for reporting fire alarm signals to a central monitoring station, allowing customers...