Press information To download a 250 pixel wide low-res image for web use or a 300dpi print quality image, go to www.parkfield.co.uk/systemsensor Everything you need to know about designing and installing conventional fire systems - free Released 21 May 2004 System Sensor, the world's largest smoke detector manufacturer, has published a free 24 page guide to conventional fire systems. It is an invaluable reference source, giving an overview of the principles of operation of a fire system and setting out the requirements of the relevant specification, BS5839 Part 1: 2002. The guide contains easily understandable explanations of the different categories of fire system defined in BS5839, with illustrations to show the combinations and positioning of detectors and break glass call points required for a system to meet the requirements of each category. Once the category of system has been selected, the specifier then has to decide which type of detector - point photoelectric smoke, multi-criteria smoke and heat detector or fixed or rate of rise thermal detector, or, for large open areas, a beam detector - should be installed in each location in the protected premises. Again, the guide gives straightforward advice. Finally, the guide sets out how to calculate detector positioning and spacing in every conceivable situation: flat ceilings, obstructed and sloping ceilings, areas where portioning or racking is fitted and in corridors and stairwells. *** Ends: body copy 185 words *** Notes to Editors. For further information: Glen Collins System Sensor Europe The Orchard, Holme Farm Estate Winterpit Lane Mannings Heath Horsham West Sussex RH13 6LZ telephone: + 44 (0)1403 891920 fax: + 44 (0)1403 891921 sales@sseuk.com www.systemsensoreurope.com Agency contact: Nigel May Parkfield Communications Limited Parkfield House Damerham Hants SP6 3HQ tel: + 44 (0)1725 518321 fax: + 44 (0)1725 518378 nigel.may@parkfield.co.uk www.parkfield.co.uk System Sensor Europe is the world's largest specialist manufacturer of industrial fire detectors of all types, including ionisation, photoelectric, thermal and multi-sensor devices, in both analogue addressable and conventional detector formats. Honeywell is a US$24-billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; speciality chemicals; fibers; plastics; and electronic and advanced materials. Honeywell employs approximately 115,000 people in 95 countries and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol HON, as well as on the London, Chicago and Pacific stock exchanges. It is one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also a component of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. Additional information on the company is available on the Internet at www.honeywell.com. This release contains forward-looking statements as defined in Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including statements about future business operations, financial performance and market conditions. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties inherent in business forecasts as further described in our filings under the Securities Exchange Act.