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According to a new market survey, D-Tec is the global leader in the fast growing area of Video Smoke Detection technology, and the number one provider in key regional markets.
In the IMS Research report ‘World Market for Fire Detection and Suppression Products’, D-Tec – part of AD Group – heads up the Video Smoke Detection category with a market share of 41.3%, based on analysis of 2006 data. The company also leads the way in Europe, Middle East and Africa with a 38.3% of the market.
Video smoke detection is particularly suitable for the early detection of smoke in lofty, voluminous, environments such as aircraft hangars, manufacturing plants, power stations, warehouses and building atriums.
“We are extremely pleased with the results of the IMS study, underlining as it does our status as the world’s leading provider of Video Smoke Detection (VSD) solutions,” said company’s managing director, Ian Moore. “This is a position we are confident of maintaining with the introduction our IP-based FireVu system with all the potential this offers for remote, off-site, monitoring and more recently, the integration of our VSD technology directly into CCTV cameras.
“We have always had a strong export focus and, working with our partners in key markets, have now reached a position where more than 80% of our business is outside D-Tec’s home market.”
Projects which are now protected by the company’s Factory Mutual approved systems include the 600 metre wide Royal Airwing Hangar complex at the Dubai International Airport, and the Sydney Harbour Tunnel (SHT) where VSD has been retrofitted to CCTV cameras to protect the 90,000 vehicles which transit the tunnel every day.
James McManus, research analyst at IMS Research added: “D-Tec has an impressive installed base for video based smoke detection and has proved that it is a real alternative to traditional fire detection technologies in a wide range of applications.”