A mission critical facility doesn't have the luxury of time to extinguish fire with a water sprinkler system. While sprinklers are extremely effective, an unacceptably long time is required to disassemble, dry, and clean the drenched equipment of water, silt, and dissolved salts. Mission critical facilities must detect and suppress fire before building fire sprinklers are activated. In this way costly downtime can be completely avoided. Two non-water based fire suppression systems are particularly suited for this task.
Fire suppression is immediate.
There is no clean up required because the FM200 gas doesn't leave a residue. Used in asthmatic inhalers as a propellant, FM200 is completely nontoxic. Inergen systems deploy a nontoxic, non-residue producing gas into the affected area and extinguish fire by reducing the oxygen level below the level necessary to support combustion. Since this level is safe for human occupancy, there is no threat to people. Neither is there residue from the discharge, so cleanup after the discharge is unnecessary.