C-Tec: Hush Button. Designed to work with existing, open protocol analogue fire alarm systems in Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs), C-TEC’s Hush Button solution meets and exceeds the requirements of BS 5839 Part 6 in all areas, providing reliable and fully monitored fire detection, alarm and silencing facilities inside each individual HMO dwelling.

A Button can be looked upon as a miniature fire alarm, providing the resident with the means to silence false alarms themselves, for example, should they set the fire alarm off accidentally by burning a meal so preventing false alarms and full-scale evacuation of other residents in the building.

The Button is a breakthrough in the battle against false alarms. False alarms are costly, inconvenient and dangerous (residents are more likely to ignore a true fire alarm).