Wireless Fire Alarm Systems

Hochiki Ekho hybrid wireless fire detection — wireless sensors, call points, sounders and modules that join your addressable fire alarm loop through a single Translator, with no cabling to the field devices. Surveyed, installed and programmed by Hochiki-trained engineers.

Complete fire detection, without cabling every device

Ekho is a hybrid system: a Translator module is wired into the loop of an addressable fire alarm panel, and every sensor, call point, sounder and module beyond it communicates by radio. The panel sees each wireless device as a normal loop address, so alarms, faults and outputs are managed exactly as on a wired system.

Where cabling is difficult, disruptive or impractical — occupied buildings, finished interiors, extensions to an existing system — wireless devices cut installation time and disruption. Expanders extend coverage and form a self-configuring mesh, so every device always has a path back to the panel.

The signal always finds a way back to the panel

Wireless devices are not tied to a single Expander. Each one continuously picks the strongest signal path back to the Translator — and if an Expander loses power or its signal is blocked, devices switch to the next-best path automatically.

Mesh operation needs two or more Expanders. Capacities depend on loop capacity and local standards.

Surveyed first, so it works first time

1. Radio surveyWe measure wireless link quality at the real device positions using the Ekho survey kit, before anything is installed.
2. DesignTranslators and Expanders are planned from the device count, the building construction and the survey results.
3. InstallationThe Translator is wired to the panel loop and Expanders to a 24 VDC supply. Field devices need no cabling.
4. ConfigurationFrequency channels are scanned and devices linked and addressed in the Ekho Configurator software.
5. Commissioning & handoverConnection strength, events and analog values are verified, then the system is tested and handed over.