Hyderabad’s skyline is rising faster than ever and so must security, Telangana Director General Fire, Disaster Response, Emergency and Civil Defense Vikram Singh Mann said at the inaugural FESA 2025 on Friday.
Organized by the Fire and Safety Association of India (FSAI), the seminar brought together officials, developers, engineers and technology firms to discuss fire protection, electrical safety and building automation. With more than eight hundred tall building projects underway or planned, speakers said the city’s vertical growth, stronger systems and regulatory compliance are inevitable. FSAI National President V. Srinivas added that Suraksha Index certification is now a key benchmark for new towers.
The exhibition area reflected the extent of these concerns. Intelligent fire control panels have been set up with multi-floor simulations showing how alerts travel through large structures and how operators can monitor hundreds of devices from a central point. Detectors using optical, thermal and combined sensing were shown with cropped models to show how they process signals and filter out false alarms. Beam detectors projected laser guides across the hall to show how they covered the long corridors and atria.
Visitors walked through sections showing how manual fire detectors, isolators, I/O modules and strobe sirens fit into the wider emergency architecture of a high-rise building. Conventional smoke and heat detectors were placed alongside their addressable counterparts, allowing a clear comparison between systems designed for smaller buildings and systems designed for complex, multi-level towers.
A voice evacuation section demonstrated zone announcements, automatic alerts and messaging throughout the building with ceiling, wall and pendant speakers arranged to illustrate their acoustic reach. The IP-enabled units showed how managers can remotely monitor multiple towers.
Suppression systems were also demonstrated, including clean agent units for data centers and server rooms, compact systems for electrical panels and machine rooms, and solutions designed for kitchen hazards and UPS rooms. Transparent cases allowed visitors to see how the discharge patterns worked inside the enclosures.
Technical sessions throughout the day focused on firefighting and life safety design, electrical resistance, plumbing safety and maintenance issues common to tall structures. Representatives from FSAI branches across the country attended the event, which attracted participation from fire protection, security, HVAC and building systems companies.
Published – 12 Dec 2025 20:33 IST
