Mircom

Mircom designs, develops and manufactures advanced life-safety systems for the demanding and mission-critical application of fire detection, alarm, and control. As the fastest growing independent participant in the North American market, Mircom attributes its success to an entrepreneurial spirit and its willingness to invest in people and technology.
 
Mircom systems use advanced digital signal processing circuitry and processors (DSPs) and sophisticated smoke detection and other software algorithms to help detect and manage the threat of fire in schools, high-rise residences and office, industrial and commercial buildings throughout North America and around the world. Mircom’s systems development continues to take advantage of emerging technologies including advanced digital telephony, digitized messaging, and high speed networking to satisfy new generations of building requirements.

With processors running at hundreds of millions of instructions per second, Mircom’s systems evaluate building conditions thousands of times per second, and utilize distributed processing techniques to provide the quick response and fault tolerance required in demanding life safety and property protection applications.  For example, Mircom's fire systems can detect smoke and other products of combustion before they become visible, and combine knowledge of conditions throughout a building to identify and assess imminent conditions before they develop to threaten the occupants.  Once a threatening situation is identified, advanced control programs interact with the building’s internal systems, affecting ventilation, suppression, security, and even elevator systems, to help create a survivable environment.

Mircom's products incorporate a wide range of the latest technologies in embedded systems development.  The systems are scaleable to satisfy diverse user demands from small buildings to the largest complexes using a common firmware platform and a multi-processor architecture.  The system firmware itself is designed using an object oriented paradigm and a layered architecture, implemented with an advanced pre-emptive, real time, multi-threaded, operating system.  The system is data driven allowing maximum system configurability from a rich feature set.  Mircom systems are user configured using sophisticated but user-friendly GUI-based configuration tools running on the industry standard MS Windows PC environment. Testing and validation of the systems are simplified by the rich set of reporting options and the ability to display differences between various configurations.

Mircom employs the latest tools and techniques in electronic hardware and software design and development to provide the high reliability, fault-tolerant control technologies needed to protect lives and property. Mircom’s investment in human resources, state-of-the-art facilities and advanced technology is allowing the company to achieve unparalleled growth while saving lives: a true win-win.