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Fire Alarm Zone

Colour rooms by detection zone and export a panel zone-plan PDF.

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Fire Alarm Zone engine in Kaleidoscope Plan

What it does

Assign rooms to numbered detection zones, wire devices onto loops, mark panel and repeater locations, and export a multi-page zone plan ready to sit beside the alarm panel.

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Capabilities

What you get

Numbered detection zones

Create sequential zones with automatic palette colours and recolour each room by the zone it belongs to.

“You are here” markers

Mark up to four panel or repeater locations — each one becomes its own oriented page in the export.

Loops and devices

Build alarm loops and add smoke, heat, sounder, call-point, bell, strobe and combined devices with wiring order preserved.

Compliance guidance

Regional standards (NFPA in the US, plus UK, EU and AU) with completeness checks before you export.

Panel-ready PDF

Multi-page landscape PDF — Letter in the US, A4 elsewhere — with a full zone and device legend.

How it works

From plan to deliverable in five steps

  1. 1 Create detection zones and assign rooms to each.
  2. 2 Place up to four “you are here” markers.
  3. 3 Build loops and add detection and notification devices.
  4. 4 Resolve any compliance warnings.
  5. 5 Export a multi-page zone-plan PDF.