Billy Goldfeder covers an incident in which the fire was at the brink of overrunning the fire suppression capabilities of the sprinkler system.

Oct. 16--York City's 127-year-old fire-alarm system is going to stick around a while longer. Mounting maintenance costs and a desire to help city businesses save money motivated a proposal to ...

He’s using an Arduino Uno and an Ethernet breakout board to hook it up to the network. This allows him to send text messages to himself when the alarm system is armed, disarmed, or triggered.