A monthly activation test requiring that Emergency Lighting / Exit Signs come on and provide the required emergency illumination for a minimum of 30 seconds.

An annual test where Emergency Lighting / Exit Signs are activated for 90 minutes to simulate a long-term emergency.

Emergency Lighting / Exit Signs to be operational during testing.

Written records of the monthly and yearly tests (showing documentation with respect to maintenance and retesting if problems occur) must be maintained.

NFPA 101 requires maintenance personnel to perform a manual test every 30 days, meaning that the “test” button on the Exit Sign needs to be pushed and held in place for 30 seconds to simulate a short outage. The Exit Sign needs to stay illuminated during the test while operating on the battery.

NFPA 101 requires an annual battery test of 90 minutes on each Exit Sign.

Written records need to be maintained and produced during an audit including maintenance and replacement records.

Manual testing of Exit Signs is labor intensive, expensive (typically involves overtime), typically requires multiple people (ladders or lifts) and is very disruptive to normal building operations.

OSHA fines are currently $13,260 per violation.

Failure to abate is $13,260 per day beyond the abatement date.

Willful or repeated penalties are $132,598 (per violation).

Willard Smart Exit provides a centralized real-time status of all your exit signs. It is secure, fast, flexible and facilitates a scalable, reliable administration.

A comprehensive life-safety solution that addresses NFPA 101 regulations in Exit Signs with a rapid ROI.

The Willard Smart Exit monitors the internal battery, providing battery status to an administrative dashboard. The dashboard provides battery status of all Exit Signs in your building(s) in a single location, replacing the need for manual testing.

Reports can be generated immediately upon request.

A generator, stored energy system or a battery in a standard Exit Sign are all the same in the view of the NFPA and any other Authority Holding Jurisdiction . Regardless of which system you have you must comply with NFPA 101 and audit each emergency Exit Sign monthly and annually. A system with a generator does not help to meet compliance except by illuminating the Exit Sign for an emergency back up test.

Once a compliance test is complete with a system using a generator or stored energy or standard emergency battery Exit Sign the task of inspecting each individual Exit Sign must be completed (typically manually but sometimes with a tablet) and converted to an approved NFPA format. The Willard Smart Exit Sign completely changes how a facility manages the emergency Exit Sign compliance work load. The time and labor savings is an easy calculation. As is the life safety of all of the occupants of a facility. If you can save a huge amount of time and money by installing a Smart Exit Sign solution you greatly reduce the risks and liabilities of any facility.

Yes. Installing a Smart Exit Sign with its own battery backup creates no electrical or mechanical issues as to how the existing generator or stored energy system operates.

In addition to the generator and stored energy systems having their own separate NFPA standards to meet, the facility now has a second emergency exit sign backup system should the generator or stored energy system experience a failure or delay.

The NFPA 101, NFPA 110 and NFPA 111 standards state clearly that an emergency exit sign, whether backed up with a generator, stored energy system or a battery pack within the Exit Sign, must illuminate for a minimum of 90 minutes. If the generator or stored energy system cannot exceed the 90 minutes than it is not acceptable as the emergency power source for the Exit Signs.

Emergency power systems provide automatic backup power in the event of normal power loss. They are required by code and shall provide power within 10 seconds to all life safety systems.