Dominikus-Ringeisen-Werk – A WinGuard Success Story

The system concept – WinGuard is the integrated solution

In Ursberg, the Dominikus-Ringeisen-Werk has a sister and site fire brigade that is directly on site in case of an alarm. On average the site fire brigade has between 50 and 70 firefighting operations per year. In 2017 it had to move out to 27 missions. Luckily, these were in most cases false alarms caused by e.g. burnt food or steam. For the protection of the residents and the employees, the Dominikus-Ringeisen-Werk decided to control all security systems installed in the buildings centrally via WinGuard. The PSIM system enables the management of all fire detectors via a unified user interface. For example, the maintenance cycles of each detector can be checked. During maintenance works, individual detectors or detector groups can be automatically switched off or activated again. The technical employees of the Dominikus-Ringeisen-Werk maintain the WinGuard application themselves. In particular the fire brigade routing cards for firefighting on site as well as the plans of the individual buildings always have to be kept up to date. The current route maps are automatically displayed and printed for the site fire brigade via WinGuard. This enables the emergency services to directly detect inaccessible areas such as e.g. during renovation works in the house or locked rooms and to navigate to the fire location without any loss of time.

In the event of a fire, the fire brigade is alerted and in parallel, the nursing staff at the Dominikus-Ringeisen-Werk are also provided with the required information for evacuation as soon as possible. The curative education nurses can either be informed by direct calls to wards or residential groups or via the automatic alarm on the used DECT telephones. This automatic notification function is also applied when searching for missing residents. In addition to the security-relevant systems, the building management technology is also integrated in WinGuard. Here, for example, fault messages with regard to the heating or ventilation system are automatically forwarded to the technician in charge so that the malfunction can be rectified promptly.