Honeywell unveils new gas safety control systems

Honeywell on Tuesday announced the launch of Touchpoint Pro, which it says is a complete integrated gas and logic safety control system that delivers flexibility and connectivity to create a strong industrial safety culture.

Representing the next evolution in industrial safety, Honeywell says its Touchpoint Pro provides a platform that can adapt to any site requirement, thereby offering total flexibility, intuitive use and the ability to greatly reduce ongoing costs.

Honeywell says Touchpoint Pro is an ideal solution for small to mid-sized operations. The system's flexible architecture enables the exact system to be built to customer requirements — optimizing operations and cost, according to company officials. 

Thanks to a unique modular approach, Honeywell says Touchpoint Pro is the only control solution that enables the customer to build a centralized system, distributed system or a combination — all with the same components. 

The unique architecture of Touchpoint Pro can also significantly reduce cabling costs and installation time and is easily expanded or integrated into an emergency gas shutdown system.

“Touchpoint Pro can save customers as much as 50% on the total cost per channel when you factor in all of its cost-saving aspects, including equipment, installation and cabling,” said Andrew Thompson, vice president and general manager for Honeywell Analytics in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. “This makes it a highly attractive solution for today’s cost-conscious customer.”

Touchpoint Pro delivers maximized system uptime with 24/7 operational availability, Honeywell says, noting that it is the only control system in its class to offer a Web server interface, which allows gas status, data, event history and more to be monitored away from the intuitive touch-screen panel — and even remotely from the site.  

As a result, low cost, end-to-end testing of the entire system can be carried out by a one man walk test using a mobile device.

At the heart of Touchpoint Pro is the central controller that can be mounted in either a rack or cabinets. It features an intuitive touch-screen interface for easy system setup and complete, at-a-glance visibility of system status. 

The central controller also includes a preloaded sensor catalog, which contains a complete listing of gas detectors from Honeywell, each with recommended settings for a simple three-stage setup.

More information can be found at the Honeywell Analytics website.