Conventional detectors are wired to a conventional fire panel in zones: the panel shows which zone is in alarm rather than which single detector. Apollo offers three conventional ranges here, Series 65, Orbis and AlarmSense, and each detector plugs into the base made for its own range, so choose the range first and keep to it across the site.
Then choose by the fire you expect. Optical smoke detectors use light scattering: smoke entering the chamber scatters light onto a sensor, so they respond well to slow burning, smouldering fires and suit bedrooms and escape routes. Heat detectors are for places where a smoke detector would be unsuitable, such as areas that are dirty, smoky or steamy in normal use. The Orbis Multi-Sensor combines optical and heat sensing and is more sensitive than an optical detector to fast burning, flaming fires, including liquid fires.
For heat detectors, pick the EN 54-5 class. The letter and number (A1, A2, B, C) set the temperature band the detector is built for, from A1 for normal room temperatures up to C for areas that run hotter in normal use. An R suffix means it also responds to a fast rise in temperature, and S means it responds only at its fixed temperature. Series 65 heat detectors come in A1R, BR, CR and CS, Orbis in A1R, A2S, BR, CR and CS, and AlarmSense in A1R.
For hazardous areas such as refineries and offshore platforms, the Orbis I.S. Optical Smoke Detector is intrinsically safe and carries approvals including IECEx, BASEEFA and PESO (CCoE). On Orbis detectors, FasTest checks a detector in four seconds and DirtAlert flashes a yellow LED when a detector is dirty. FPS supplies, installs and maintains all of these in Bhopal and across Madhya Pradesh.