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| Smoke Alarm Mistake Shows the Risks in Creating a New User Interface Next-generation user interfaces will be one of the keys to the emerging wearables markets, to the increasingly connected smart home, and to moving technology and devices further into the mainstream. However, launching new types of user interfaces can be tricky. Case in point: last week Nest decided to halt the sale of its new Protect smart smoke alarm because it found a flaw in the sensor and gesture-based user interface. The function that enabled users to pause an alarm by waving at it could also be unintentionally triggered by other types of movement. The fear was that if there was a fire and the alarm was going off, a nearby movement could falsely pause the alarm. |
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| Registration Open for NVFC Training Summit Registration and course selection is now open for the National Volunteer Fire Council's (NVFC) Training Summit to be held in Myrtle Beach, S.C., June 20–21. The two-day conference is open to all volunteer firefighters, EMTs, department leadership, and other fire department personnel and Fire Corps members from across the United States. Attendees will be able to share ideas and best practices, network, and participate in valuable training, including reputation management in a digital era, firefighter cancer, behavioral health, PPE usage during overhaul, fire codes, and more. |
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| Design & Build With Metal: EPDs a Valuable Tool for Today's Designers An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) isn't just an acronym. It represents the industry's advancements toward more energy-efficient and environmentally responsible buildings. An EPD can be looked at as an executive summary of a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) report. It shows the environmental impact of a product in specific impact categories. It also shows product conformity to the ISO 14020 series, (14020, 14021, 14024, and 14025) designed to assist businesses with measuring and communicating their efforts to minimize environmental impact. EPDs contain information about product definition, building physics, the basic material and its origin, product manufacture and processing, in-use conditions, as well as testing results, and verifications. Developing an EPD requires assessing the environmental impacts throughout the lifecycle of the product, including raw material extraction, transportation, manufacturing, packaging, use, and disposal at the end of a building’s useful life. Typically, the product configurations in EPDs use ranges representative of all products in a particular industry category. |
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