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Our mission

Making fire alarm engineering faster, safer and more professional

Incognito Fire & Security Professional was built to solve a problem every engineer knows โ€” turning up to a panel fault you've never seen before, with no quick way to look it up.

The problem

Engineers were on their own at the panel

Fire alarm engineering spans dozens of manufacturers, hundreds of panel variants, and thousands of possible fault codes. Fault codes vary between firmware versions. Panel behaviour changes after software updates. A fault you clear on one site's MxPro 5 might present differently on another.

Before Incognito F&S, the options were: call the manufacturer helpline (often queued), search forums and hope, or rely on institutional knowledge that walks out the door when experienced engineers move on.

There was no centralised, searchable, up-to-date knowledge base. No AI that understood the difference between an Apollo XP95 and an Apollo Discovery. No tool built specifically for the way engineers actually work โ€” standing at a panel, phone in hand, under time pressure.

The solution

A complete engineering platform, on your phone

Incognito F&S covers the working day of a fire and security engineer. Its catalogue tracks 621 fault-code records, 29 manufacturer records and 80 panel models alongside evidence-led diagnostic, reporting and site tools.

Beyond fault diagnosis, the platform includes engineering calculators for battery capacity, voltage drop, SPL, detector spacing and cable sizing; a report writer that generates professional engineer reports; My Sites with a digital logbook for each installation; and a community of verified engineers who contribute field-tested solutions.

The result: fewer call-backs, higher first-fix rates and a more confident engineering team โ€” whether you're a sole trader attending your first unfamiliar panel, or an operations manager who wants consistent fault-handling across a team of eight.

Our principles

Built by engineers, for engineers

Every decision we make is shaped by how fire alarm engineering actually works on the ground.

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Safety above everything

The AI assistant is guidance only โ€” it sits below manufacturer instructions, the adopted code or standard, authority requirements and site-specific cause & effect documentation. It will never treat a permanent impairment as an acceptable fix.

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Standards context

Diagnostic responses carry the selected market and jurisdiction. Where a verified reference applies, we identify its scope and evidence; where adoption or authority requirements are unknown, we say so instead of presenting certainty.

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Accuracy over speed

Provisional data is clearly flagged until verified by our engineering team. We would rather show you a smaller, accurate database than a large one with errors. Every fault record gets reviewed before it's published.

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Built for the field

We design every screen for one-handed use on a phone, standing at a panel. No dense tables, no tiny buttons, no interfaces that require a desktop. If it doesn't work in the field, it doesn't ship.

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Engineer-first

We're not a software company that happened to pick fire alarms. We built this tool because we understood the problem from the inside. Feedback from engineers shapes every update.

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Continuously updated

The fault database grows every month as we add manufacturers, panel variants, reviewed records, and clearly labelled provisional guidance. When manufacturers release new panel firmware, we update the database. The tool gets more useful over time.

Standards context

Scoped to the selected market

The UK technical foundation is retained with its original scope. International requests do not inherit it automatically: records and assistant evidence are filtered by market, jurisdiction, edition and verification state.

EN 54European Standard for Fire Detection and Fire Alarm Systems

Structured references retain their product scope, edition and market applicability; an EN reference is not presented as an adopted local requirement everywhere.

BS 5839-1Fire Detection & Alarm Systems โ€” Code of Practice

The GB code-of-practice foundation remains available to GB users and for explicit comparisons, without being treated as local guidance for another market.

BS 7273Code of Practice for the Operation of Fire Protection Measures

A GB-specific reference retained with its scope. Cause-and-effect guidance in another market requires applicable local evidence and project requirements.

Technical catalogue

29 canonical manufacturers, 80 panel models and 621 fault-code records. Reviewed technical products span 87 recorded product families, with provenance retained on published records.

AdvancedApollo Fire DetectorsASL Fire & SecurityBaldwin BoxallBoschC-TECEatonEMSESSER by HoneywellFikeFireClassGent by HoneywellGlobal Fire EquipmentHaes SystemsHochiki EuropeHoneywell SecurityKentec ElectronicsMorley-IASNittan EuropeNotifier by HoneywellPaxtonProtecPyronixSiemensSimplexTexecomXtralisZeta Alarm SystemsZiton

Get in touch

Questions about the platform, fault database errors to report, or feedback from the field โ€” we're always listening.

For fault database corrections, include the manufacturer, panel model, fault code and what you believe is incorrect. We investigate within 48 hours.

Incognito Fire & Security is a trading name of Shop Incognito Ltd.