DELTA, BC, March 30 /PRNewswire/ - AirTest Technologies
(TSXV: AAT) announced today that it has been asked by Underwriters
Laboratory (UL) to participate on a UL committee responsible for
establishing test standards for the next generation of
multi-criteria smoke and fire detectors. These multi-criteria
devices are intended to significantly reduce false alarms in
residential and commercial applications by measuring gases like
carbon monoxide (CO) while working with traditional ionization and
photoelectric sensor technologies now used for smoke and fire
detection.
CO can also be a major health hazard in homes
with malfunctioning combustion equipment.
Dr Jacob Wong,
President of Airware Inc, and the inventor of AirTest's
patent-pending zero-drift gas measurement technology, will be
participating on the UL committee along with Mike Schell, VP of Business Development at
AirTest. Dr. Wong possesses extensive experience, and numerous
patents in the application of gas sensing in fire detection. The
first meeting of this group will take place in late April 2011.
"AirTest's interest in participating on this
committee, that will play an important role in defining the next
generation of smoke/fire detectors, is related to the breakthrough,
zero-drift gas sensing technology which we have exclusively
licensed from Airware," said AirTest's President George Graham. "This technology can
deliver the extended life, long-term stability, and low cost needed
by existing smoke/fire detector manufacturers to significantly
reduce false and nuisance alarms."
Graham added that, "While our primary focus in
the development of our new sensor technology, is to target markets
that are immediately available to us, we see tremendous long term
potential in the multi-criteria fire detection device market as it
develops."
About AirTest: AirTest Technologies
(www.airtest.com) is a Green-Tech company specializing in sensors
that improve commercial building operating efficiency and at the
same time create energy savings. These sensors are all based on
technical innovations developed in the last ten years, and comprise
a growing second wave of energy saving technologies that will make
a significant contribution to the Sustainable Buildings
Program. AirTest offers its products to leading-edge building
owners, contractors and energy service companies targeting the
buildings market. AirTest also provides energy cost reduction
solutions to building equipment and controls manufacturers who
incorporate AirTest sensor components in their products.
About Underwriters Laboratory:
Underwriters Laboratories® (UL) (www.ul.com) is an independent
safety certification organization that has been testing products
and writing standards for safety for more than a century. A
household name in the United
States, UL is one of the most recognized conformity
assessment providers in the world. UL evaluates more than
19,000 types of products, components, materials and systems
annually with 20 billion UL Marks appearing on 72,000
manufacturers' products each year. UL's worldwide family of
companies and network of service providers includes 64 laboratory,
testing and certification facilities serving customers in 98
countries.
About Airware Inc: Airware Inc.
(www.airware-inc.com) is a research and development company
specializing in the application of custom, non-dispersive infrared
gas measurement solutions to a wide variety of commercial,
residential and industrial gas sensing applications.
Airware Inc. currently closely works with AirTest Technologies as
it develops markets for a new, low cost, zero drift infrared gas
sensing technology developed and licensed by Airware.
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SOURCE AirTest Technologies Inc.