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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2015
Applicant:
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Pankaj Kumar Pandey, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC., Morristown, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 21/00 (2006.01); G08B 17/06 (2006.01); G08B 21/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 17/06 (2013.01); G08B 21/185 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided including a current detector monitoring an electrical conductor supplying power to a geographic area for shorts, arcing or overloads, the current detector detecting a short, arc or overload on the electrical conductor, and a fire alarm panel adjusting a sensitivity of a fire detector within the geographic area in response to the detected short, arc or overload.