MicraStratos Fire Alarm Programming

Kidde’s Stratos and Micra family fills the small-to-medium aspirating-smoke-detection bracket where a full VESDA or Wagner deployment would be overkill but conventional point detection still cannot meet the requirement. This section covers programming and commissioning MicraStratos detectors.

Where MicraStratos fits

The lessons cover the typical site profile (small to medium server rooms, switch rooms, telecoms cabinets, retail back-of-house, heritage rooms) and the model variants — how the Micra-25 / Micra-100 sit relative to the Stratos-Quadra and Stratos-HSSD platforms in terms of pipe length and sensitivity classes.

Commissioning workflow

Pipe design verification, transport-time measurement, sensitivity-level setting (alert, action, fire-1, fire-2), day/night sensitivity options where the platform supports them, and the integration with the host fire panel via dedicated interface module are walked through with worked examples.

Site documentation

Aspirating systems require more rigorous as-fitted documentation than conventional point detection because the pipe network is part of the certified design — the lessons cover what auditors expect on commissioning and at the next service visit. The deeper version of this material, alongside VESDA and Wagner so engineers see all three side-by-side, is in the MicraStratos and ASD training on bhcourses.com.