Fire detectors Integral CUBUS

No, we strongly advise against painting fire detectors. This can damage sensitive components and affect their functionality and certification.

If you need detectors that match your interior design, we offer Multicolour fire detectors in a wide range of colours — providing both safety and aesthetic flexibility without compromising performance.

Yes. Our Cubus automatic fire detectors can be configured to be time-controlled and can detect heat during the day and smoke at night, for example. This setting is mostly used in commercial kitchens. 

All our fire detectors are developed and manufactured in Germany by Hekatron, a company within our corporate group. This ensures the highest quality standards, reliable performance, and full compliance with European regulations — all under the label "Made in Germany".

Modern fire detectors can be divided into three main categories:

• Non-automatic fire detectors (e.g. manual alarm notification)
• Automatic fire detectors
• Special fire detectors for demanding environments

Automatic detectors include multiple sensor detectors, smoke detectors, heat detectors, fire gas detectors (CO), and flame detectors — each using different sensor technologies.

No matter the application or environment, we offer the right detection solution — from standard use cases to highly specialised scenarios. With our broad product portfolio and decades of expertise, you benefit from reliable protection tailored to your needs.

Smoke detectors use a single sensor to detect smoke particles — typically via the scattered light principle — and are mainly suitable for detecting smouldering fires.

Multiple sensor detectors, on the other hand, combine several detection principles (e.g. smoke, heat, and fire gases like CO) in one device. This enables more reliable and faster fire detection across a wider range of fire types and environmental conditions.

Thanks to CMD (Combined Detection Mode), multisensor detectors intelligently evaluate sensor data to reduce false alarms and increase detection accuracy. This makes them the preferred choice in most applications — offering greater safety, flexibility, and performance compared to single-sensor detectors.

The selection of a suitable fire detector depends on several important factors:

• Ambient and environmental conditions (e.g. dust, humidity, temperature)
• Room height and structure
• Expected fire characteristics 

With our extensive experience and wide range of detector technologies, we ensure that you get the optimal solution for your specific application — reliable, standards-compliant, and tailored to your environment.

On the one hand, the quantity and arrangement of the automatic fire detectors depends on nationally applicable standards / guidelines and, on the other hand, it depends on the type of detectors used, the room geometry, the type of use and on the ambient conditions in the rooms to be monitored. The detectors must be selected in such a way as to reliably detect fires in their formation phase and to prevent deceptive alarms.

Yes. Our fire detectors can be provided in all RAL colours on request. Optionally, up to two gloss levels are possible (silk matt and gloss). However, our fire detectors are white (RAL 9003) as standard.

Multiple sensor detectors and smoke detectors are only triggered if smoke particles enter the measuring chamber, these smoke particles scatter a light beam emitted by an infrared diode and parts of this scattered light fall on a light-sensitive sensor (scattered light principle). Over years, more and more dirt particles get into this measuring chamber, which can lead to deceptive and false alarms.

Our automatic fire detectors permanently monitor your measuring chamber for contamination. If dirt particles are detected in the measuring chamber, they adjust their alarm sensitivity so that the detector remains reliable and fully functional regardless of its contamination. This process is called pollution compensation.

By means of the contamination prediction, the detector independently provides information when replacement becomes necessary and the contamination compensation is no longer sufficient. 

According to European standards, smoke alarms cannot and must not be used with an automatic fire alarm system that ensures reliable alarm notification of action forces. Therefore, smoke alarms are mainly used on the house and apartment market, where there are no official requirements for an automatic fire alarm system. In addition, smoke alarms are powered by batteries and it must be possible to check their function manually – e.g. by pressing a button.