Esser by HONEYWELL

Honeywell is a Fortune 100 company that invents and manufactures technologies to address tough challenges linked to global macrotrends such as safety, security, and energy. With approximately 122,000 employees worldwide, including more than 19,000 engineers and scientists, we have an unrelenting focus on quality, delivery, value, and technology in everything we make and do. Honeywell’s core businesses are Aerospace, Home and Building Technologies, Safety and Productivity Solutions, and Performance Materials and Technologies. 

Novar GmbH with ESSER brand is part of Home and Building Technologies.

A broad, future-oriented portfolio of custom-made fire protection concepts and innovative voice evacuation systems make ESSER one of the leading experts for safety in buildings. 

From our Headquarter in Neuss, Germany, we are managing the competence centers of our brands:

• Product management and development
• Brand management and international marketing
• International business development
• Quality management and certification
• Integrated supply chain management
• Logistics and distribution center
• Training
• Fire test room

A Success Story

From flat roof production to the development of innovative fire detection – with strategic initiatives Klaus Esser started his success story in 1973 and invested into manufacturing of fire systems. He thus laid the foundation of ESSER’s worldwide reputation as a leading and innovative brand for fire detection. Until today ESSER develops and produces high-qualtity, reliable fire alarm and voice evacuation systems – since April 2005 as part of the Honeywell Group.

Milestones of our History

1973 Founding of Klaus Esser KG

1980 ESSER develops the first fire alarm panel with microprocessor

1984 ESSER takes over the intrusion detection system division from DOM and develops flexible fire and intruder detection systems

1993 MB-Caradon plc takes over ESSER

2000 ESSER presents the O²T detector, which can distinguish between smoke particles and disturbance sources such as steam

2005 Takeover of Novar plc by the Honeywell Group - ESSER and Ackermann are now part of Honeywell

2008 Honeywell acquires AV-Digital and adds voice alarms to the portfolio of ESSER

2010 ESSER presents FlexES - the new standard in fire detection technology

2011 EN54-16 Certification, market launch of next generation FlexES

2013 40th anniversary of the ESSER brand

Brand

For approximately 40 years the ESSER brand stands for custom-made solutions for professional fire protection. Furthermore voice alarm and public address systems as well as intelligent management systems are the company´s core businesses.  Innovative technology, favorable cost of ownership and excellent system compatibility guarantee highest flexibility and cost efficiency of the ESSER products and support ESSER’s position as one of the leading providers of safety in buildings.

We are proud of having gained a couple of security awards with our innovative products in recent years.

“Think global, act local” - frequent dialog and close partnerships with customers as well as technical experts form the strategy that influences both our product development and service offering.

PRODUCTS

Fire Systems

Requirements for future-proof fire alarm systems are complex, such as custom-made configuration and need-based development, flexible extension with new functionalities and components or downwards-compatibility. In addition customers expect a sophisticated design, user-friendliness and low lifecycle and maintenance cost. From the very beginning ESSER kept setting trends in fire alarm systems. Listening to our customers’ needs always has been and still is our top priority in order to continue this trend.

Fire protection solutions are as individual as any project itself. ESSER offers solutions specifically designed for the individual requirements. The future starts today – at ESSER we are thinking ahead.

Voice Alarm Systems

Thanks to their modular structure, ESSER voice alarm systems facilitate the implementation of both small and large solutions for public addressing, background music, alarm and evacuation.

ESSER was quick to act on the expansion of the classic fields of application in voice alarm systems: With VARIODYN® D1, the new VdS approved product line for trend-setting voice alarm, an extensive product portfolio is available for the most diverse areas of application - from digital communication units and power amplifiers to compact complete systems.

Management Systems

A Management System is a PC-based software for operating, collecting and managing data of connected sub-systems. A sophisticated user and access rights administration manages specific rights for data access and for the operation of sub-systems including automatic structuring of messages within the Management System. Various installations can thus be integrated into a uniform user surface, such as e.g.

• Intruder alarm systems
• Fire alarm systems
• CCTV
• Access control
• Escape route control
• Voice alarm and public address systems
• Call systems
• Emergency door control

The system offers additional features for building evacuation, process technology (measuring, controlling, directing) and for data management. Also included are functional displays of alarm-, notification- and escalation scenarios as well as user-, time-, event- and program-driven interactions of the connected sub-systems.

On top of building layout screenshots, charts and workflows a Management System provides supplementary output channels for email, sms, telefax or print (e.g. for fire brigade route cards) in order to better visualize alarms, messages and all sorts of other relevant information.

Customer benefits are

• Lower cost for installation and system extension
• Higher security
• Lower landed costs
• Time and cost savings for maintenace of the Management System and connected sub systems
• Continuous development of features and functionalities as well as adjustment of interfaces to other Life Safety products from Novar by Honeywell