subject: Fire Suppression Systems For Computer Rooms [print this page] Fire Suppression Systems For Computer Rooms
One of the most devastating accidents to happen in any business is fire. If your computer rooms are caught on fire, you may lose everything including your business' sensitive data. Thankfully there are ways on how to prevent fires in computer rooms and that is by installing fire suppression systems.
You may wonder on how this system will work since water and computers are not good combination because water may damage the computers. If you will use water to stop fire, you will just damage your computer units, there is really no sense.
Fire suppression systems for computer rooms actually use special types of gasses to suppress fire in computer rooms. There are actually three things needed to create fire and they are oxygen, heat, and fuel and if you remove one of these, you will be able to suppress fire. So in order to safely suppress fire in computer rooms without using water you must remove oxygen. Fire suppression systems in computer rooms emit special types of gasses if it detects fire in the computer room. Do not worry because these gasses are not combustible; they will just reduce the amount of oxygen present in the room making the fire to stop.
Also, if you are worried about the effects of these gasses to human beings, actually these types of gasses are not are not harmful to us human beings since they are also made up of the air we breathe. In other words, the implementation of fire suppression systems in computer rooms is very much safe to human beings.
It is very much important that you do all precautionary measures to protect your computer units. According to statistics, 43% of all establishments which are caught on fire did not reopen due to the fact that they have lost all their data saved on their computers.
