Introduction for Code for Design of Automatic Fire Alarm System

This paper has made a comprehensive introduction to the new national standard GB50116, which is the code for the design of automatic fire alarm system. It gives a specific comparison between GB50116-2013 and GB50116-98. And the content of GB50116-2013 is more comprehensive than GB50116-98. The paper makes detailed analysis to their specific contents, and gives comparative analysis to these two standards, including terminology, basic provisions, design of fire linkage control, selection of fire detectors, settings of system equipment, system power supply, and cabling, etc.