Media Coverage
Sensors Magazine Highlights Electronic Monitoring of Fire Extinguishers
May 17, 2011
en-Gauge and the wireless electronic monitoring of Fire Extinguishers were highlighted in a story carried by Sensors Magazine. Brendan McSheffrey, CEO of en-Gauge and Mark Jarman, President of Innovonics explain how wireless sensing networks come together with life safety equipment to drive efficiencies and improve life safety.
FacilitiesNet.com - University of Utah Uses En-Gauge to Monitor AED's
March 14, 2011 - FacilitiesNet.com. The University of Utah discusses the many benefits of electronically monitoring their Fire Extinguishers and AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators), including improved emergency response time, lowered vandalism rates and assurance that their devices are in place and ready to use.
SecurityInfoNews.com
en-Gauge, Inc., (engaugeinc.net) maker of en-Gauge monitoring systems for fire extinguishers, medical oxygen and safety equipment has added their facility’s fire extinguishers to the list of people they follow on Twitter (@engauge_demo).
Nashua Telegraph
May 31, 2009 - Through a collaborative effort with our partners, en-Gauge recently helped the NH State House become the first state house in the US with an electronically monitored fire extinguisher system.
Security Magazine Blog
May 2009 - en-Gauge was discussed in a post about our recent installation in the NH State House.
Mass High Tech: NH State House Lands "Smart" Fire Extinguishers
May 2009 - The 46 fire extinguishers...were a donation from Simplex Grinnell’s Nashua, N.H. office, en-Gauge, Ansul Inc., Pacom Systems Pty Ltd and Inovonics Wireless Corp.
Media Coverage
Security Management: Fuming Over Unplanned Reaction - March 2004
Mike Halligan, associate director of environmental health and safety at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, knew that the campus fire-safety program had to be reviewed after two fires occurred in wet chemistry laboratories. One fire was caused by an unplanned reaction when two compounds were mixed together in a small beaker. This fire was contained by a fume hood and by the graduate student who used a nearby fire extinguisher to put out the flames. The damage was minimal because the use of the fire extinguisher prevented the fire from spreading to other materials within the fume hood.
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Boston Globe: Rethinking the everyday - October 13, 2003
Many of the patents tenaciously won by Massachusetts inventors are for ordinary but nevertheless important objects
Eight years ago, Brendan McSheffrey had his billion-dollar brainstorm. This month, his mom and dad are finally bringing Brendan's invention to market, one of the biggest innovations in decades to come to a ubiquitous piece of technology few people ever think about: fire extinguisher pressure gauges.
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Government Security - August 2003
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Fire & Safety Magazine: Bay Area Medical Center Utilizes Electronically Monitored Fire Extinguishers
July 2007 - the Bay Area Medical Center (BAMC) in Marinette, Wisconsin completed a successful pilot program with en.Gauge electronically monitored fire extinguishers. BAMC is the first healthcare facility in the United States to utilize en-Gauge extinguishers; it has ten units scattered throughout public areas on the first floor of the hospital. Link
