Hyderabad’s skyline is soaring faster than ever, and safety must rise with it, said Director General of Telangana Fire, Disaster Response, Emergency and Civil Defence, Vikram Singh Mann, on Friday at the inaugural of FESA 2025.
The seminar, organised by the Fire and Security Association of India (FSAI), brought officials, developers, engineers and technology firms together 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 compliance unavoidable. FSAI national president V. Srinivas added that the Suraksha Index certification is now a key benchmark for new towers.
The exhibition area reflected the scale of these concerns. Intelligent fire control panels were 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, heat and combined sensing were displayed with cutaway models to show how they process signals and filter false alarms. Beam detectors projected laser guides across the hall to demonstrate how they cover long corridors and atriums.
Visitors moved through sections that showcased how manual call points, isolators, input-output modules and strobe sounders fit into the broader emergency architecture of a high-rise. Conventional smoke and heat detectors were placed alongside their addressable counterparts, allowing a clear comparison between systems meant for smaller buildings and those designed for complex, multi-level towers.
The voice evacuation section demonstrated zone-wise announcements, automated alerts and building-wide messaging, with ceiling, wall and pendant speakers arranged to illustrate their acoustic reach. IP-enabled units showed how managers can monitor multiple towers remotely.
Suppression systems were also demonstrated, including clean agent units for data centres and server rooms, compact systems for electrical panels and machinery spaces, and solutions designed for kitchen hazards and UPS rooms. Transparent cases allowed visitors to see how the discharge patterns work inside confined spaces.
Technical sessions through the day focused on fire fighting and life safety design, electrical resilience, plumbing safety, and the maintenance issues common to tall structures. Representatives from FSAI chapters across the country attended the event, which drew participation from firms across fire, security, HVAC and building systems.
Published – December 12, 2025 08:33 pm IST
