ERCES · NFPA 1225 · annual evidence

Pass the annual test before the fire marshal arrives.

Day 364: the AHJ is on the calendar, the battery passed last year's one-hour test, the donor antenna might be drifting, and nobody has opened the BDA logs in eight weeks. ERCES portfolios that prove their own NFPA 1225 compliance — donor signal health, battery 1-hour runtime, BDA telemetry and sealed evidence packets ready for the AHJ on day 364, every year.

NFPA 1225 + NFPA 72evidence pre-mapped — plus IFC § 510, FCC Part 90
Battery 1-hour rulecontinuously monitored — alerts before the AHJ visit
90 dayscontract to first ingest — ERCES portfolio to evidence
The reality at portfolio scale

The annual test is already in motion, every day.

1/3
buildings fail the annual test
Industry indicative across mid-rise commercial — the first time, every year, somebody else has to come back and fix it.
60 min
minimum battery runtime
NFPA 1225 § 9.4 — the rule that quietly fails between annual tests, then loudly fails on the one day the AHJ arrives.
30+
pages per recertification
Grid tests, battery logs, donor signal records, BDA configs, change-of-condition affidavits, AHJ submission forms.

Indicative benchmarks from ERCES operator interviews — your portfolio's numbers will differ. Methodology on request.

What ships in the first 90 days

Four surfaces tuned for ERCES portfolios under NFPA 1225.

Drop in next to your existing BDA RMS and battery management — read-only at first, write-scope when the runbooks earn it.

Donor signal monitoring, continuously.

Downlink reception level sampled per band, alarmed on threshold drift, correlated against external RF events.

  • Per-band downlink alarms — threshold, drift, dropout
  • Donor antenna alignment integrity (sweep + delta watch)
  • External RF event correlation — public-safety net included
  • No truck for a single bad reading — only sustained drift fires

Battery health under the one-hour rule.

Continuous battery profiling, runtime projection, capacity drift alarms — alerts before AHJ visit, not after.

  • Vendor-neutral battery profiles (lead-acid, LiFePO4, mixed strings)
  • Runtime estimate + temperature compensation, per cabinet
  • Pre-test scheduling: replacement before AHJ window opens

Annual NFPA 1225 evidence packs, sealed.

Grid tests, battery logs, donor signal continuity and BDA configuration audits — assembled live, dated, signed.

  • NFPA 1225 § 10 grid test layout per AHJ submission spec
  • Battery logs + capacity tests · chain-of-custody sealed
  • Change-of-condition affidavits drafted from live diff

Fire marshal portal — read-only and time-boxed.

Give the AHJ inspector a direct view, scoped to one building and one inspection window. Revoke instantly.

  • Per-building, per-AHJ, time-boxed access links
  • Read-only by default · audit log of every viewed packet
  • Withdraw access in one click after the inspection closes
An incident, end to end

From a 3 dB downlink dip in San Francisco to a signed NFPA packet.

01
SF-FIRE-12 · donor uplink −3 dB · investigating

Donor signal drifts.

ObservOne picks up a sustained −3 dB drop on the public-safety band donor signal — three consecutive 5-minute samples below threshold, not a single-reading blip.

02
correlation engine

Console correlates.

Donor antenna alignment delta detected against last week's sweep. Battery cycle nominal. Runtime projection still well above the one-hour rule. Annual test due in 14 days — schedule the alignment fix this week.

03
NFPA 1225 § 9.4 · evidence sealed

Evidence is auto-logged.

Annual test packet now drafted with the corrected sweep included. Battery log appended. Change-of-condition affidavit signed and dated for SF-AHJ Q3 submission.

Audit-ready by construction

The fire marshal sees the system as you see the system.

NFPA · 1225
Emergency responder radio
Grid tests, donor signal, battery one-hour rule, annual recertification packets.
NFPA · 72
Fire alarm + signaling
Trouble-signal handling and supervisory integration into the building fire panel.
IFC · § 510
Building code radio
In-building radio coverage requirements pre-mapped per AHJ jurisdiction.
FCC · Part 90
Public-safety bands
Per-licence evidence retention; interference complaint packets prepared on request.
Hands on

See your ERCES portfolio
ahead of the next AHJ visit.

30 minutes with a solutions engineer. We'll load a sandbox tenant with anonymised buildings that match your portfolio — BDA vendors, battery mix, AHJ jurisdictions. NDA-friendly.