Which panel is in your building?

Where the detectors, sprinkler flow switches and call points wire back to. The FIP finds the fire, signals the brigade, and its alarm output is what starts the cascade on a warning system. In smaller buildings there is no separate EWIS at all - the occupant warning gear is built into the same cabinet, which is exactly what the LoopSense does.

Tell it apart at the cabinet: it is the one with FIRE BRIGADE PANEL printed on it

LoopSense Ampac · listed 2012

“FIRE BRIGADE PANEL” on the fascia, a keypad, and a text display.

The strip below the fire panel is the occupant warning system, so this cabinet does both jobs and there is no EWIS elsewhere in the building. The catch: the two halves keep separate buzzers - SILENCE BUZZER on the warning strip does nothing to the fire panel’s. Getting to any of it needs a 003 key for the door.

Sounds the alert and evacuate signals, carries the warden phones, and runs the phased cascade through the building. It detects nothing on its own - it acts on an alarm input from the FIP.

Tell them apart at the cabinet: a key you turn → Inertia 2000  /  a screen → ECS‑16

Inertia 2000 in service since 1997

Keyswitch, and a printed instruction card on the fascia.

Turn the key to MANUAL before anything responds. To reset, hold SILENCE for five seconds - there is no reset button. Tones are the real EA‑series recordings.

ECS-16 from 2023

Touchscreen, and no key - Auto and Manual are buttons.

The catch is Reset: it does nothing unless you are in Manual and Silence Warning is already on. Tones here are synthesised, not recordings.