Conventional fire alarm control panels receive and report alarms in zones. Each conventional panel comes with a set number of onboard zones. All the initiating devices on a zone are wired together. Therefore, they are all considered the same zone and are not labeled individually. This means that you would not be able to determine which specific device triggered an alarm, you would only know that it was one of many devices on that zone. For this reason, conventional fire alarm systems are typically not recommended for large buildings or multi-building sites.
