Signalink Technologies Inc. Events and News

 

Signalink is pleased to announce the formal release of the much-anticipated UL-listed Fire-Link®II product as of 4 January 2010. This product supersedes the original Fire-Link® product which has 250 building installations in North America. The new product, described in detail on the company’s website product overview page, was designed with:

- an added strobe feature for the hearing-impaired,
- improved reliability of the signalling over the AC power line,
- an ultra-reliable long-life Lithium-Ion battery, and
- numerous detailed feature enhancements

The original Fire-Link® “wireless horn” product will be available only for a limited time in early 2010, and Signalink will of course support the installed base of Fire-Link® systems.

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Website Improvements

Signalink’s website was substantially improved in late 2009, and will continue to incorporate further improvements throughout 2010. The main changes include an improved look and feel for better readability and navigation, and the inclusion of the Fire-Link®II product line. Imminent improvements in early 2010 will include installation and training aids, including video, for installers and users.

Signalink has expanded it's sales team


Anticipating excellent customer acceptance of the new product line, Signalink has hired 5 new people in the sales department for the New Firelink II product launch. Signalink acknowledges with gratitude the participation of the Canadian Federal Government through its Community Adjustment Fund (CAF) economic stimulus initiative through the office of Western Economic Diversification in providing working-capital loans for the jobs created.

Plug-in alarm attracts Federal Funds

Kelowna's Signalink getting $676,400 government loan
-by Steve MacNaull/The Okanagan Saturday. 

Kelowna plug-in fire alarm company Signalink is the only technology company to attract federal government Community Adjustment Fund money. "Most of the funding has gone into the hardest hit forestry, mining and tourism sectors" said Kelowna-Lake Country MP Ron Cannan, "but the goal of the fund is to diversify the economy and the community in these tough times, and the green technology Signalink has will do that."  

At a Friday event a the company's headquarters in Kelowna, it was announced Signalink will receive a $676,400 low interest loan from the Community Adjustment Fund. The money is for matching the cash Signalink pays to hire 10 marketing and sales professionals who will help with Signalink's expansion into the U.S. Signalink's proprietary plug-in fire alarm took $7 million and five years to develop. Now that it is being commercialized, it is being hailed as a revolutionary technology. 

A Signalink panel in an apartment building's utility room helps control the fire alarms that are plugged into standard electrical sockets in all the suites. The benefit is that it fills the need for a fire alarm in every apartment or condominium and it avoids the costly and time-consuming stringing of wires and punching holes in walls that hard wiring fire alarms would require. So far, Signalink has sold systems to the owners of hundreds of apartment, condo, institutional and industrial buildings, representing tens of thousands of individual plug-in fire alarms.  

Most of the sales activity has been across Canada using high-profile distributors such as General Electric, Mircom and Edwards-Troy. Signalink systems have also been sold into pockets of Florida, Virginia and New Jersey. But by hiring the extra sales and marketing people, Signalink will accelerate its penetration of the lucrative American market. A high-profile U.S. distributor is also expected to be named soon.  

The company currently has 20 employees working out of its Kelowna offices, mostly engineers, sales and marketing professionals and administration staff. That number will jump to 30 with the fund money for additional sales and marketing representatives. The actual Signalink units are manufactured in Ontario.

Signalink is pleased to announce that it has now received UL listing for its Fire-Link® branded power line fire alarm signaling system.  ULC listing was acquired in March 2006.