Securiton’s digital-first approach breaks new ground with the ASD 2000

Aspirating smoke detection (ASD) has long been the gold standard for Early Warning Fire Detection. But until 2026, ASD systems remained locked in a bygone age. Securiton has changed that with the digital-first ASD 2000.

With the Swiss company’s new device family, gone are the buttons and complex displays of old: this is a futuristic looking graphite-coloured box controlled from an app on your phone. It was born of a brief focused not on hardware, but on a seamless user journey.

Today, that means a mobile app as the primary interaction interface, alongside intuitive design that reduces complexity and saves time throughout the design, installation and commissioning process.

As an ASD pioneer with over 50 years of experience in the field, it is appropriate that Securiton should provide this generational leap forward in ASD technology. As part of the security-focused Swiss Securitas Group, Securiton was also able to direct considerable efforts to build a secure interface for the app – essential because of longstanding concerns in some key industries.

Fire detection is life critical; it’s highly regulated; and it’s generally business-critical too: around half of businesses that suffer a major blaze never recover. Others, such as data centres, power networks or financial firms, will suffer heavy costs and reputational damage should their services be suspended due to a blaze or even a false alarm.

No surprise, then, that they do not wish for the devices protecting them to be hacked. However, the fire safety industry can no longer ignore the efficiency gains available through a digital approach.

Advantages of the ASD 2000

Securiton’s solution uses multilevel encryption and authentication to ensure only the company’s authorised partners can control a device. The security architecture followed the strictest industry protocols, and the result also offers significant advantages to the old ‘dongles’ which were used to identify authorised users up to now.

With the app system, levels of clearance and permissions can be set – or taken away – almost instantly. And all the actions of a given user are clearly recorded, whereas previously the shortage of physical dongles usually led to service engineers sharing hardware and accounts.

The first SecuriSmoke product where commissioning, configuration, diagnostics, and operation are all managed through an intuitive mobile application is therefore arguably its most secure yet.

Nevertheless, Securiton is pressing on with plans to roll out a version of the ASD 2000 that offers a more conventional set-up process. This will allow installers to access the performance benefits of the new device in areas where security protocols mean the app cannot be used.

Those performance benefits make the ASD 2000 an industry-leading device even without its digital interface: because they were designing a new device from scratch, the 60-strong development team were able to pack in many major performance upgrades.

The detection chamber has undergone a redesign from scratch, doubling the maximum sensitivity to 0.001% obs/m, and a 1000pa aspiration engine expands the potential pipe network and raises system limits, especially in the highest Class A EN 54 standard for Very Early Warning Fire Detection.

The SecuriSmoke ASD 2000 offers multiple leaps forward in terms of the technologies inside. For the industry as a whole, perhaps the move to a fully digital, remote interface is the most significant. It remains to be seen if other manufacturers will follow suit.

For more information see: www.securiton.com/onestepahead