Guard Tronic President, Jordon Brown, has been added to UL Technical Committee 8555 for Auxiliary Service Providers. This new UL standard was created to write the specifications for alarm Network Operation Centers (NOC), otherwise known as alarm clearinghouses.
“Auxiliary Service Providers” is a new term added to NFPA 72, the National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code, 2025 edition, to help ensure the reliability of fire alarm delivery service from cellular and network communicators. Regular followers of Guard Tronic will know that several of these clearinghouses, or their delivery method, have failed recently.
“I have spoken to several UL auditors over the last few years, and we are all concerned about the lack of transparency in service providers about their NOCs. I believe that they should meet the same minimum requirements that central stations conform to under UL827.” Jordon said upon his appointment to the technical committee. “I will work on TC 8555 to allow Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory access to these clearinghouses to inspect them to this new standard.”
The National Fire Protection Association created the linked video to better explain how the Auxiliary Service Providers support signal communication from a fire alarm system to a Central Station or remote station:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHcYUpoB5Yo
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