Modern people, whether in life or work, will come into contact with a variety of equipment to protect life and property safety. For example, smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, fire alarms and sprinkler systems, burglar alarms, video surveillance and access control systems are all common equipment in offices, schools, hospitals, factories and even homes today. With the rise of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, the concept of smart home and smart building has gradually become popular; As a result, a series of smart sensing devices consisting of simple electronic devices are easily connected to the Internet and the cloud. Most of these smart devices can be controlled remotely from smart phones and other devices running iOS or Android system apps.
In such a rapidly changing market, especially in areas that touch people's lives, regulations and industry standards are vital to ensure that these products work as they are required to do. In Europe, the CE mark on the product indicates that the product complies with all the relevant health, safety and environmental standards required by the CE, and all products produced or sold in the European market must bear the CE mark. The process of obtaining the CE certification mark is very complicated, which requires a variety of strict design verification and testing. Therefore, when designing their products, security system companies need to carefully choose the right accessories and supplier partners, which is very important for their products to successfully pass CE certification in the future.
Because the certification standard not only applies to the system itself, but also applies to its accessories, such as switches in the entire field of security products play a series of important roles. For example, every smoke alarm must have a detection/reset switch that is guaranteed to work reliably throughout the detector's life, regardless of the environment in which the detector is used. Connected devices in smart buildings usually use dip switches to configure the address of the device in the whole network. There are also many security products such as control panels, outdoor lighting and alarms, motion sensors and door and window sensors that use pushbutton switches as anti-tamper protection.
The application requirements of this kind of switch will vary depending on the mechanical structure or environmental requirements of the equipment, but the basic types are metal switch, touch switch and waterproof button switch. These switches are required to operate under a variety of harsh conditions, and regulations in some countries, including throughout Europe, require switches to operate properly in corrosive gases such as sulfur dioxide. Alarm and security systems international
