A fire protection system from Siemens Building Technologies Division has been installed in a Staybridge hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Siemens protects Russian hotel

Installed by Confident, Cerberus Pro has been fitted to protect the 294-room hotel, alongside a Siemens MM8000 danger management station for security.

The fire protection system in the St. Petersburg hotel, which has rooms fitted with kitchens, comprised three Cerberus Pro FC724 fire panels and one Cerberus Pro FT724 terminal, all connected via a cluster, along with 1200 OP720 smoke detectors -306 with sounder bases, seven HI720 heat detectors and 89 manual call points.

They were installed via an integrated Ethernet interface and connected to the security system.

The new hotel is the first of four planned in the Russian city currently under negotiation between a number of owners and the Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG).

A spokesman for the company said:  “The scalability, ease of configuration and wide range of Siemens’ peripheral devices appealed to IHG who look for replicable technologies that can be applied consistently and efficiently in their hotels throughout the world. 

“IHG particularly wanted sounder bases in every room at the St. Petersburg hotel to provide ‘cause and effect’ programming that would normally require programmable logic controls, with the additional benefit of full EN 54 compliance.  This facilitates the provision of protection in a fully automated way with a specific timing pattern, for example, the phased evacuation of the hotel complex or the integration of smoke and damper controls within high-rise hotel blocks.”