Media Coverage

May 31, 2009 - Through a collaborative effort with our partners, en-Gauge recently helped the NH State House become the first state house in the US with an electronically monitored fire extinguisher system.

Full Article: Nashua Telegraph

May 2009 - en-Gauge was discussed in a post about our recent installation in the NH State House.

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May 2009 - The 46 fire extinguishers...were a donation from Simplex Grinnell’s Nashua, N.H. office, en-Gauge, Ansul Inc., Pacom Systems Pty Ltd and Inovonics Wireless Corp.

Security Management: Fuming Over Unplanned Reaction - March 2004

Mike Halligan, associate director of environmental health and safety at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, knew that the campus fire-safety program had to be reviewed after two fires occurred in wet chemistry laboratories. One fire was caused by an unplanned reaction when two compounds were mixed together in a small beaker. This fire was contained by a fume hood and by the graduate student who used a nearby fire extinguisher to put out the flames. The damage was minimal because the use of the fire extinguisher prevented the fire from spreading to other materials within the fume hood.

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Boston Globe: Rethinking the everyday - October 13, 2003

Many of the patents tenaciously won by Massachusetts inventors are for ordinary but nevertheless important objects

Eight years ago, Brendan McSheffrey had his billion-dollar brainstorm. This month, his mom and dad are finally bringing Brendan's invention to market, one of the biggest innovations in decades to come to a ubiquitous piece of technology few people ever think about: fire extinguisher pressure gauges.

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Government Security - August 2003

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July 2007 - the Bay Area Medical Center (BAMC) in Marinette, Wisconsin completed a successful pilot program with en.Gauge electronically monitored fire extinguishers. BAMC is the first healthcare facility in the United States to utilize en-Gauge extinguishers; it has ten units scattered throughout public areas on the first floor of the hospital. Link

January 2007 - en-Gauge installed 175 of its electronically monitored fire extinguishers at the Suffolk County Jail building on Nashua Street in Boston and throughout the eight-building Suffolk County House of Correction at South Bay, also in Boston.

November 2006 - Suffolk County Sheriff  announced that more than 175 electronically monitored fire extinguishers were installed in two of the Department’s correctional facilities – the Suffolk County House of Correction at South Bay and the Suffolk County Jail on Nashua Street, both in Boston, Massachusetts. Link