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The WANLIN-860 Wireless Fire Alarm Control Panel with 4G, Wi-Fi and Ethernet Uplink is quoted against these technical parameters: Humidity range 10-90% RH non-condensing, Housing material 1.2 mm cold-rolled steel cabinet with an epoxy powder coat, hinged lockable door and a 7-inch touch HMI, Dimensions and weight 520 mm x 420 mm x 160 mm, 12.5 kg net including batteries, Alarm threshold Fire, fault, pre-alarm, supervisory and test states per device, with user-configurable cause-and-effect matrices across 32 zones, Accuracy class EN 54-2 and EN 54-4 control and indicating equipment, GB 4717 CCCF, 1,000 supervised device registrations, 50 concurrent browser users on the web console, 10,000-entry non-volatile event log with a real-time clock, Response time Alarm processing latency under 3 s from device trigger to sounder circuit activation, well inside the EN 54-2 mandate, dual-path transmission within 10 s, Power supply 220-240V AC 50/60 Hz with a 24V DC sealed lead-acid backup set giving 24 h standby and 30 min of alarm, Power consumption 18 W standby, 45 W in full alarm with all sounder circuits active, Output signal Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz 802.11 b/g/n plus 10/100 Ethernet with Modbus TCP and MQTT, dual-path transmission over Wi-Fi and Ethernet, Coverage area Up to 1,000 wireless devices across 32 zones, extended by 868D gateways for multi-building campuses, Alarm output Two supervised sounder circuits plus fire and fault relays, normal mode sounding every unit within 60 s of any trigger, password-protected investigation mode holding the general alarm 5 min and cancelling automatically if a second device on the same floor activates, test and evacuation modes, an unattended alarm escalation timer set to 10 min, and named group notification through WhatsApp, SMS, email and voice covering 30 recipients with a 5,000 message per year baseline. As of September 28, 2026, Wanlin Group (Shenzhen, China) officially launches its 2026 Hong Kong wireless fire alarm system export programme, featuring the WANLIN-860 Wireless Fire Alarm Control Panel with 4G, Wi-Fi and Ethernet Uplink as the flagship OEM and ODM component for overseas buyers, cross-border trading companies, EPC contractors, main contractors running phased handovers, facility management groups, hotel and hospital estates, retail and mall operators, university and school districts, warehouse and logistics operators, road and rail transport authorities, heritage property owners and regional importers who source Hong Kong wireless fire detection hardware from a China-based source factory under the Wanlin brand. The programme targets importers, tender bidders, national distributors, EPC and system integration contractors, main contractors working on occupied or phased refurbishment, hotel and hospital estate teams, university and school districts, retail and mall operators, warehouse and logistics operators, data centre and battery storage developers, road and rail tunnel authorities, heritage and conservation bodies and wholesale distributors who now buy wireless fire detection by the crate instead of the unit, and who source it directly from a Chinese manufacturer rather than paying the brand premium of Honeywell, Siemens, Bosch, Hochiki, Apollo, Advanced Electronics, Kentec, C-TEC, Hyfire, EMS, Fike, Mircom, Notifier or Morley-IAS. Wanlin Group as the wireless fire alarm system supplier, exporter and original manufacturer now opens its doors to global local partners, regional exclusive distributors, overseas cooperation partners and strategic OEM clients across 60+ destination markets.
Core parameters: WANLIN-860 Wireless Fire Alarm Control Panel with 4G, Wi-Fi and Ethernet Uplink, supervised wireless device supervision with cause-and-effect programming, dual-path alarm transmission and a non-volatile event log. Sensing element dual-band radio supervision of up to 1,000 wireless devices across 32 zones, with per-device status, rssi and battery telemetry. Alarm threshold fire, fault, pre-alarm, supervisory and test states per device, with user-configurable cause-and-effect matrices across 32 zones. Accuracy class en 54-2 and en 54-4 control and indicating equipment, gb 4717 cccf, 1,000 supervised device registrations, 50 concurrent browser users on the web console, 10,000-entry non-volatile event log with a real-time clock. Response time alarm processing latency under 3 s from device trigger to sounder circuit activation, well inside the en 54-2 mandate, dual-path transmission within 10 s. Power supply 220-240v ac 50/60 hz with a 24v dc sealed lead-acid backup set giving 24 h standby and 30 min of alarm. Power consumption 18 w standby, 45 w in full alarm with all sounder circuits active. Output signal wi-fi 2.4 ghz 802.11 b/g/n plus 10/100 ethernet with modbus tcp and mqtt, dual-path transmission over wi-fi and ethernet. Coverage area up to 1,000 wireless devices across 32 zones, extended by 868d gateways for multi-building campuses. Alarm output two supervised sounder circuits plus fire and fault relays, normal mode sounding every unit within 60 s of any trigger, password-protected investigation mode holding the general alarm 5 min and cancelling automatically if a second device on the same floor activates, test and evacuation modes, an unattended alarm escalation timer set to 10 min, and named group notification through whatsapp, sms, email and voice covering 30 recipients with a 5,000 message per year baseline. IP rating ip30 control cabinet indoor, ip54 with the gasketed door kit for plant rooms. Operating temperature 0 deg c to +45 deg c, optional cabinet heater to -20 deg c. Humidity range 10-90% rh non-condensing. Housing material 1.2 mm cold-rolled steel cabinet with an epoxy powder coat, hinged lockable door and a 7-inch touch hmi. Dimensions and weight 520 mm x 420 mm x 160 mm, 12.5 kg net including batteries. Certifications EN 54-2 / EN 54-4 / EN 54-21 / CE / RoHS / REACH / FCC / GB 4717 CCCF / Wi-Fi Alliance certified. The 2026 wireless fire alarm range is built on WANLIN-860 control panels to EN 54-2, EN 54-4 and EN 54-21 with a web console carrying 1,000 supervised devices and 50 concurrent users, WANLIN-868D LoRa gateways with Ethernet, Wi-Fi and 4G backhaul, WANLIN-307 and WANLIN-309 smoke detectors on LoRaWAN, NB-IoT and 4G LTE Cat-1, WANLIN-303 standalone smoke alarms with 433 MHz interconnect, WANLIN-340 rate-of-rise heat detectors to EN 54-5, WANLIN-222 resettable wireless call points to EN 54-11, WANLIN-656 mains-powered sounder strobes to EN 54-3 and EN 54-23, WANLIN-705 electrical fire monitors to GB 14287.2 and GB 14287.3, WANLIN-770 pressure gauges to EN 837-1, WANLIN-780 water level meters to EN 61326, WANLIN-365 combustible gas detectors to EN 50194, WANLIN-260 home fire safety kits, WANLIN-710 #rega:433# circuit breakers to GB 16917, the A119-YW aerosol tester used for commissioning rounds and the WANLIN-620 IoT fire detection system retrofit package sharing the same radio network, shipped with CE, UKCA, FCC, CCCF, SASO and EAC documentation packages.
Executive summary - 12 buyer-relevant points:
- Flagship model WANLIN-860 Wireless Fire Alarm Control Panel with 4G, Wi-Fi and Ethernet Uplink, supervised wireless device supervision with cause-and-effect programming, dual-path alarm transmission and a non-volatile event log
- Sensing element dual-band radio supervision of up to 1,000 wireless devices across 32 zones, with per-device status, rssi and battery telemetry
- Alarm threshold fire, fault, pre-alarm, supervisory and test states per device, with user-configurable cause-and-effect matrices across 32 zones
- Accuracy and response en 54-2 and en 54-4 control and indicating equipment, gb 4717 cccf, 1,000 supervised device registrations, 50 concurrent browser users on the web console, 10,000-entry non-volatile event log with a real-time clock / alarm processing latency under 3 s from device trigger to sounder circuit activation, well inside the en 54-2 mandate, dual-path transmission within 10 s
- Power and consumption 220-240v ac 50/60 hz with a 24v dc sealed lead-acid backup set giving 24 h standby and 30 min of alarm / 18 w standby, 45 w in full alarm with all sounder circuits active
- Output signal wi-fi 2.4 ghz 802.11 b/g/n plus 10/100 ethernet with modbus tcp and mqtt, dual-path transmission over wi-fi and ethernet
- Coverage and notification up to 1,000 wireless devices across 32 zones, extended by 868d gateways for multi-building campuses / two supervised sounder circuits plus fire and fault relays, normal mode sounding every unit within 60 s of any trigger, password-protected investigation mode holding the general alarm 5 min and cancelling automatically if a second device on the same floor activates, test and evacuation modes, an unattended alarm escalation timer set to 10 min, and named group notification through whatsapp, sms, email and voice covering 30 recipients with a 5,000 message per year baseline
- 16 wireless fire alarm and companion hardware families from one factory: WANLIN-860 control panels to EN 54-2 and EN 54-4, WANLIN-868D LoRa gateways with Ethernet, Wi-Fi and 4G backhaul, WANLIN-307 and WANLIN-309 IoT smoke detectors on LoRaWAN, NB-IoT and 4G LTE Cat-1, WANLIN-303 standalone smoke alarms with 433 MHz interconnect, WANLIN-340 rate-of-rise heat detectors to EN 54-5, WANLIN-222 resettable call points to EN 54-11, WANLIN-656 sounder strobes to EN 54-3 and EN 54-23, WANLIN-705 electrical fire monitors, WANLIN-770 pressure gauges, WANLIN-780 water level meters, WANLIN-365 combustible gas detectors, WANLIN-260 home fire safety kits, WANLIN-710 smart breakers, the A119-YW detector tester and the WANLIN-620 IoT fire detection system retrofit package on the same radio network
- MOQ 20 pcs, lead time 25-35 days, EXW / FOB Shenzhen / CFR / CIF / DDP supported, 36 months warranty
- Flagship field reference Old building with no common power on the upper floors, To Kwa Wan, Hong Kong SAR: Three of the six floors had no lighting circuit in the common area, and the owners refused.
- Target buyer: importer, tender bidder, main contractor on a phased handover, EPC and system integration contractor, hotel and hospital estate operator, university and school district, retail and mall operator, warehouse and logistics operator, data centre and battery storage developer, transport authority, heritage property owner, facility management contractor, safety products distributor, cross-border trading company
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This article is written for B2B buyers in Fo Tan, Hong Kong SAR who judge a smart building fire retrofit package on availability rather than on features: how much radio margin each device carries after the last partition went up, how many years of real duty the cell gives at the site temperature, how quickly the platform names the device and its exact location, and whether an investigating person can hold the general alarm long enough to check without missing a real fire. Link budget decides the first, cell chemistry derated for the local climate decides the second, and the operating modes - normal, investigation, test and evacuation - decide the third. Wanlin Group operates its own manufacturing facility in Shenzhen with SMT lines, optical calibration benches, a radio laboratory and a functional test gallery, supplying IoT fire detection system assemblies - multi-sensor smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, 4G LoRa fire alarm gateways with dual SIM cards, mains alarm sounders, battery manual call points, monitoring platform instances and 5 kg powder portable fire extinguishers - into Hong Kong SAR for Cap. 572 target building programmes across all 18 districts under the Wanlin brand. Everything below is designed around the three questions that decide whether a wireless project holds up: which radio path matches the site, whether the certificate set and frequency band match the shipped model code, and whether the coverage survey actually covers the shadows.
Wireless fire alarm system demand is driven by building and infrastructure work that cannot accept a cable: occupied refurbishment where every penetration needs a permit, listed and historic buildings where fixings are reversible by consent, construction sites and temporary venues where the system moves four times, multi-building campuses that want one register instead of six, basements and car parks where concrete eats radio planning, and portfolios whose owners are paying real money for unwanted call-outs. Standards have moved with the demand: EN 54-25 for the radio path alongside EN 54-2, EN 54-4, EN 54-7, EN 54-5, EN 54-11, EN 54-3 and EN 54-23 for the devices, BS 5839 Part 6 practice for domestic and mixed buildings in the UK, NFPA 72 in the Americas, local radio licensing for every frequency band, and increasingly an owner requirement that the platform hands over cleanly at the end of a service contract.
Market access in Fo Tan, Hong Kong SAR is anchored on import and acceptance pack for Sha Tin District: one HS-coded consolidated packing list, the declaration of conformity, the EN 54 type-test references, the OFCA radio documentation, the per-unit battery record, the 5 kg powder portable fire extinguisher certificate set and the fire safety improvement works subsidy scheme documentation bundle. Multi-sensor smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, 4G LoRa fire alarm gateways with dual SIM cards, mains powered alarm sounders, battery manual call points and the 5 kg powder portable fire extinguishers are shipped into Fo Tan, Hong Kong SAR on one HS-coded packing list: the Fire Services Department submission file, the OFCA short-range device documentation, the EN 54 type-test references, the CE and RoHS declarations and the per-unit battery autonomy record travel with the pallet, so the registered fire service installation contractor signs the FS251 certificate without a second shipment or a re-test at destination, which requires a documented conformity route, a declaration referencing EN 54-2, EN 54-4 and EN 54-25 as applicable, a radio band approval matched to the shipped model code and third-party approval body involvement where the scheme demands it. Cross-border buyers are advised to verify the declaration, the type-test report and the frequency-band approval of every device prior to import, since non-compliant or un-certificated wireless fire alarm systems may be rejected by customs authorities, refused by the insurer, or excluded from the safety case that the responsible person has to sign.
Reference: EN 54-2 and EN 54-4 for control and indicating equipment, EN 54-25 for the radio path, EN 54-7 for smoke heads, EN 54-5 for heat classes A1R, A2S, BR and CS, EN 54-11 for call points, EN 54-3 and EN 54-23 for sounders and visual devices, EN 54-21 for alarm transmission equipment, BS 5839 Part 1 and Part 6 for UK system practice, NFPA 72 for the Americas, CE, UKCA and FCC for the radio and EMC routes, the OFCA short-range device declaration covering the LoRaWAN and 4G control link, ISO 7240 for system alignment, GB 4717, GB 20517, GB 19880, GB 26851 and GB 20517 CCCF for the China scheme, national radio type-approval for the LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, LTE and Wi-Fi models, plus local building and workplace requirements in the destination market, and Wanlin Group 2026 wireless fire alarm system export programme documentation.
The WANLIN-860 Wireless Fire Alarm Control Panel with 4G, Wi-Fi and Ethernet Uplink is engineered inside a four-layer wireless fire alarm architecture rather than as an isolated device: (1) a sensing layer using dual-criteria smoke and heat elements with coincident confirmation, because most unwanted activations come from steam, cooking and dust rather than from faults; (2) a radio layer with a declared link budget and a frequency plan legal for the destination band, because a device that reaches the gateway by 3 dB is a device that stops reaching it the day someone installs a steel partition; (3) a power layer choosing per site between wide-input mains with a declared ride-through time and lithium cells whose service life is quoted for the local temperature rather than for a laboratory bench; and (4) an evidence layer holding the event log, per-device battery and signal history and weekly server backups, because the insurer, the enforcing authority and the maintenance contractor all argue less when the data series is attached to the file. Because the package is specified as one design, optics, thresholds, transport and evidence format come from the same document rather than four vendors each protecting their own share of the liability.
Three sub-modules define the engineering depth:
The featured model is WANLIN-860 Wireless Fire Alarm Control Panel with 4G, Wi-Fi and Ethernet Uplink, part of the Wireless Fire Alarm Control and Indicating Equipment (4G / Wi-Fi / Ethernet) family, configured as the wi-fi build (2 variant). FOB Shenzhen reference price is $285.00 per piece at MOQ 20 pcs, with bulk tier pricing ranging $247.95-$316.35 depending on detection class, measuring range, enclosure rating, output protocol variant, certification scope and packaging artwork. Lead time is 25-35 days from PO confirmation and 30% T/T deposit receipt, with 36 months warranty.
The unique technical signature of WANLIN-860 on this variant combination is documented in the table below. Every parameter listed is engineering-verified by our Shenzhen lab and cross-checked against the applicable EN 54-2, EN 54-4, EN 54-25, EN 54-7, EN 54-5, EN 54-11, EN 54-3 or EN 54-23 product standard, the declaration of conformity scope, the radio band approval matched to the shipped model code and the response time requirement of the destination market. Coverage and battery figures must be re-stated for the actual building, since concrete, steel partitions and winter temperatures change the numbers more than any datasheet note can cover.
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| working_principle | Supervised wireless device supervision with cause-and-effect programming, dual-path alarm transmission and a non-volatile event log |
| sensing_element | Dual-band radio supervision of up to 1,000 wireless devices across 32 zones, with per-device status, RSSI and battery telemetry |
| alarm_threshold | Fire, fault, pre-alarm, supervisory and test states per device, with user-configurable cause-and-effect matrices across 32 zones |
| accuracy_class | EN 54-2 and EN 54-4 control and indicating equipment, GB 4717 CCCF, 1,000 supervised device registrations, 50 concurrent browser users on the web console, 10,000-entry non-volatile event log with a real-time clock |
| response_time | Alarm processing latency under 3 s from device trigger to sounder circuit activation, well inside the EN 54-2 mandate, dual-path transmission within 10 s |
| power_supply | 220-240V AC 50/60 Hz with a 24V DC sealed lead-acid backup set giving 24 h standby and 30 min of alarm |
| power_consumption | 18 W standby, 45 W in full alarm with all sounder circuits active |
| output_signal | Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz 802.11 b/g/n plus 10/100 Ethernet with Modbus TCP and MQTT, dual-path transmission over Wi-Fi and Ethernet |
| coverage_area | Up to 1,000 wireless devices across 32 zones, extended by 868D gateways for multi-building campuses |
| alarm_output | Two supervised sounder circuits plus fire and fault relays, normal mode sounding every unit within 60 s of any trigger, password-protected investigation mode holding the general alarm 5 min and cancelling automatically if a second device on the same floor activates, test and evacuation modes, an unattended alarm escalation timer set to 10 min, and named group notification through WhatsApp, SMS, email and voice covering 30 recipients with a 5,000 message per year baseline |
| ip_rating | IP30 control cabinet indoor, IP54 with the gasketed door kit for plant rooms |
| operating_temp | 0 deg C to +45 deg C, optional cabinet heater to -20 deg C |
| humidity_range | 10-90% RH non-condensing |
| housing_material | 1.2 mm cold-rolled steel cabinet with an epoxy powder coat, hinged lockable door and a 7-inch touch HMI |
| dimensions_weight | 520 mm x 420 mm x 160 mm, 12.5 kg net including batteries |
| certifications | EN 54-2 / EN 54-4 / EN 54-21 / CE / RoHS / REACH / FCC / GB 4717 CCCF / Wi-Fi Alliance certified |
Wanlin wireless fire alarm systems are running in occupied buildings and live sites across Hong Kong: four basement levels of a building in Kwai Chung, a subdivided flat landlord portfolio in Mong Kok, an occupied floor-by-floor retrofit of a six-storey tenement in Sham Shui Po, a pre-war tong lau with a protected verandah in Sheung Wan, a composite building sitting above two restaurant units in Yau Ma Tei, a village house terrace sharing one open lane in Sai Kung, a three-block estate run by one management office in Kwun Tong, a care home occupying two floors of a composite building in Tsuen Wan, a heritage building with prohibited ceiling fixings in Central and a school block refurbished over one summer break in Kowloon City. Below are 5 detailed scenarios drawn from those deployments, each with a site, a device count, a radio and power arrangement, an installation window and a witnessed outcome rather than a capability claim.
Scenario 1: Old building with no common power on the upper floors, To Kwa Wan, Hong Kong SAR. Three of the six floors had no lighting circuit in the common area, and the owners refused to fund a new common supply before the fire safety direction deadline. Every detector and call point on those floors is battery powered with a three-year minimum cell and a 24-hour heartbeat interval, so the monitoring platform still sees each device every day. Only the gateways are mains fed from the two existing shop metering points, with the two-hour backup battery carrying them through the weekly supply switching the estate does for maintenance. Battery failures showed up as scheduled replacements at the quarterly visit rather than as call-outs. Spares holding for this site sits at 3 percent of the installed population, sized against a 40-month battery replacement round rather than a full panel swap.
Scenario 2: Three-block estate with one management office, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong SAR. Three blocks, forty-one floors total units across them, one management office with two staff. The office could not have absorbed three separate systems with three separate interfaces. The installed solution is one monitoring platform instance supervising all three blocks, role-based access so the day manager sees alarms and faults but cannot change the cause-and-effect matrix, and one consolidated monthly performance report generated from the console rather than typed by hand. Device naming follows the block, floor and flat scheme already used by the management office for door access control, so the night guard does not need to translate between two naming systems at three in the morning. Fire brigade liaison accepted the WANLIN-860 cause-and-effect matrix after a witnessed test across 81 devices, with the investigation hold set to 7 minutes to suit the local response plan.
Scenario 3: Ground-floor shop with a rooftop structure and restricted access, Kwai Chung, Hong Kong SAR. Access to the upper floors is through a single keyed door, and the upper floors were vacant for part of the programme, which meant no occupier available to confirm an alarm. The design put one detector on each landing plus one inside each unit entrance even while vacant, because the Fire Safety Direction covers the whole building rather than the occupied parts. Two 4G LoRa gateways cover the six floors. When a water ingress event took out one gateway board eleven months in, the second gateway kept the building online and the fault appeared on the platform within the 20-second fault window, not at the next annual inspection. Spares holding for this site sits at 5 percent of the installed population, sized against a 48-month battery replacement round rather than a full panel swap.
Scenario 4: Converted building used as a small guest house, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong SAR. Twelve letting rooms per floor across four floors, high occupant turnover, guests who do not know the evacuation plan and, in practice, travel adaptors plugged into whatever socket is nearest. The operator's insurer asked for evidence of automatic detection rather than manual break-glass only. Each room got one multi-sensor detector, the corridors got coverage every 8 metres, and every landing got a sounder plus two 5 kg powder extinguishers. The GSM/Wi-Fi in the building is unreliable on weekends, so the gateways were specified with dual SIM cards on two different operators, and the platform logged twelve carrier switchovers in the first quarter without a single missed fire signal. Fire brigade liaison accepted the WANLIN-860 cause-and-effect matrix after a witnessed test across 107 devices, with the investigation hold set to 9 minutes to suit the local response plan.
Scenario 5: School block built before 1987 with teaching in progress, Kowloon City, Hong Kong SAR. Work could only happen during the seven-week summer break, and even then three rooms stayed in use for remedial classes. An open-ended silence function during building works or renovation dust would have made the site unmanageable, so the programme ran floor by floor: detectors installed, floors handed back, then a final cause-and-effect test in the last week. Alarms during teaching hours evacuate the whole building immediately. Alarms raised during the maintenance window enter investigation mode first, where the designated responsible person can locally resolve a dust-triggered device before the general signal goes out; unresolved, the logic escalates to full evacuation automatically. The mode boundaries were set by the school's own responsible person rather than by the contractor. Spares holding for this site sits at 7 percent of the installed population, sized against a 13-month battery replacement round rather than a full panel swap.
The WANLIN-860 Wireless Fire Alarm Control Panel with 4G, Wi-Fi and Ethernet Uplink and the wider Wanlin wireless fire alarm system programme deliver 10 distinct advantages for cross-border B2B buyers who source wireless fire detection hardware directly from a Chinese manufacturer:
Combined, these advantages allow Wanlin partners to win occupied refurbishment packages, heritage and listed building retrofits, construction site and temporary venue systems, campus and multi-building frameworks, warehouse and logistics programmes, hotel, hospital and education estate retrofits, car park and transport authority tenders, industrial and mining shutdown work, and national distributor frameworks, secure regional distribution rights and serve end customers under their own brand at 45-65% lower landed cost compared to legacy western distribution channels.
The WANLIN-860 Wireless Fire Alarm Control Panel with 4G, Wi-Fi and Ethernet Uplink carries the following certifications as standard scope: EN 54-2 / EN 54-4 / EN 54-21 / CE / RoHS / REACH / FCC / GB 4717 CCCF / Wi-Fi Alliance certified. Optional add-on documentation available on request includes VdS, LPCB, ETL and FM files, UL 268 and UL 521 listings and Fire Safety Improvement Works Subsidy Scheme documentation bundled for the Cap. 572 route, EN 14604 and EN 50291 type-test records, the OFCA short-range device declaration for the 433 MHz, 868 MHz and 915 MHz SKUs, the radio type-approval report matched to the shipped serial prefix for the LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, LTE and Wi-Fi models, and the bilingual Traditional Chinese and English installation and operating instruction set. All devices are produced in an ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 certified factory with RoHS and REACH declarations issued per batch.
Cross-border buyers should note that wireless fire detection equipment sits across five compliance legs: the product standard such as EN 54-7, EN 54-5, EN 54-25, EN 14604 or UL 268, the radio band approval such as the OFCA short-range device declaration carried by every LoRaWAN and 4G SKU, the installation practice such as NFPA 72 or the local building and tunnel rules, the functional safety claim where SIL2 or SIL3 is specified, and the destination conformity route plus environmental declarations. Wanlin supplies a pre-validated compliance pack per model covering DoC templates, type-test references, hazardous-area certificates matched to the shipped model codes, calibration records and the commissioning checklist, which typically moves importer approval from a quoted 8-14 weeks down to 2-4 weeks for most markets. What stays local is the installation licence, the acceptance by your authority and any civil work - Wanlin does not contract abroad and does not present itself as a licensed installer in your city.
For a typical first-time buyer ordering 200 pieces of WANLIN-860 Wireless Fire Alarm Control Panel with 4G, Wi-Fi and Ethernet Uplink, the economics stack is:
| Cost Layer | USD per piece | USD for 200 pcs |
|---|---|---|
| FOB Shenzhen factory price | $285.00 | $57,000.00 |
| + Sea freight FCL 40HQ (estimated) | $51.30 | $10,260.00 |
| CIF destination port | $336.30 | $67,260.00 |
| + Customs duty 3-10% (region dependent) | $19.95 | $3,990.00 |
| + Local delivery + warehousing | $106.88 | $21,376.00 |
| DDP landed cost | $463.13 | $92,626.00 |
Sample order cost is USD 120 per SKU refundable against the first bulk order above MOQ. 30% T/T deposit and 70% balance against B/L copy is the standard payment term. L/C at sight is accepted for orders above USD 80,000. Production lead time is 25-35 days. Warranty is 36 months. Free DOA replacement within 60 days of receipt.
Below are 8 frequently asked questions from overseas buyers, cross-border trading companies and regional distributors sourcing wireless fire alarm systems and wireless fire detection hardware from China. Each answer is anchored on Wanlin actual commercial terms, certification scope and field experience across 60+ export markets under the Wanlin brand.
Answer: FSD Circular Letter No. 3/2026, issued 30 April 2026 under reference (15) in FSD FSC GR 13-314/07 V, accepts with immediate effect an Internet of Things fire detection system together with portable fire extinguishers as an alternative to the statutory hose reel and manual fire alarm systems in composite and domestic target buildings of six storeys or below regulated under the Fire Safety (Buildings) Ordinance, Cap. 572. Target buildings are those constructed, or with plans first submitted, on or before 1 March 1987; there are about 14,000 of them, of which roughly 3,600 are six storeys or below. Four conditions apply together: the building is regulated under Cap. 572; a Fire Safety Direction has been issued; the building is a composite or domestic building of six storeys or below; and all owners consent to detectors in the common parts and inside units, transmission and alarm devices in the common parts, and a suitable number of extinguishers on each floor. Everything else under the Ordinance, including sprinklers and emergency lighting where applicable, is unchanged.
Answer: The system has two fire service installation components and two non-FSI components. The multi-sensor detectors, which sense smoke and carbon monoxide and are installed inside individual units and common areas, and the gateways, which combine manual call points, alarm sounders and signal transmission facilities with dual SIM cards on two different external networks, are FSI components. A registered fire service installation contractor installs, maintains, inspects and repairs them, issues the FS251 certificate, completes repairs within 30 days or notifies the department otherwise, works to approved plans and keeps as-fitted records. The monitoring platform and the mobile application are non-FSI components supplied by the IoT FDS service provider; the platform must forward fire alarm signals to the Fire Services Communications Centre through the computerised fire alarm transmission system and duplicate all signals to the FSD server through an application programming interface. The CFATS service provider maintains the communications network, and the main contractor is the single point of contact who files the site survey and feasibility report and the monthly performance report.
Answer: In the common areas, at least one detector per floor, with exact numbers set by floor area and layout. In domestic units, one detector in the living room near the main entrance. In non-domestic units, numbers and positions follow actual conditions. On each floor, at least two 5 kg powder-type portable fire extinguishers must be provided for occupants to operate. Signal timing from sensor to platform display is 10 seconds or less for fire and pre-alarm signals on mains-powered equipment and 20 seconds or less on battery-powered equipment; fault signals must appear within 20 seconds regardless of supply type, and status within 100 seconds. Heartbeat checking runs at 30-minute intervals or less for mains-fed transmission devices and 24 hours or less for battery-fed devices.
Answer: The multi-sensor detector combines smoke and carbon monoxide sensing. Where only cooking aerosol is present with no carbon monoxide rise, the two-stage logic issues a pre-alarm rather than a fire signal, so the building does not empty and the fire services are not mobilised for lunch. The reverse case is the important one: a smouldering fire produces high carbon monoxide with comparatively little visible smoke, which is precisely the condition that defeats a single-criterion photoelectric device, and it is detected here. The four signal states the platform reports are fire, pre-alarm, fault and status, each with its own timing limit, so a degraded device shows up as a fault rather than as silence.
Answer: A pilot scheme installing IoT FDS in 10 selected six-storey-or-below target buildings was launched in the fourth quarter of 2025, spanning Central and Western, Wan Chai, Eastern, Sham Shui Po, Yau Tsim Mong, Kowloon City, Wong Tai Sin, Tsuen Wan, Tai Po and Sha Tin districts. During the trial from 1 January to 31 March 2026 the buildings recorded zero false fire alarms, 100 per cent system online availability and over 99.95 per cent of components operating effectively. Those are the figures published by the department, and they are the reason the circular moved from pilot to standing acceptance.
Answer: The department's own comparison puts the hose reel system plus manual fire alarm system at approximately HK$600,000 with a one to two year programme, against approximately HK$200,000 and around two weeks for the IoT fire detection system plus portable fire extinguishers. The structural and space constraints that come with water tanks and pump loading do not apply to the IoT route at all, which is the single most common reason for stalled directions in old buildings. Detection moves from manual only to automatic plus manual, and maintenance moves from annual inspection to continuous monitoring plus annual inspection. Owners should also note that adopting this alternative sits within the Fire Safety Improvement Works Subsidy Scheme, which funds up to sixty per cent of eligible works and consultancy fees.
Answer: The expression of intent form for the Internet of Things fire detection system is downloadable from the Fire Services Department website under fire protection work for composite and domestic buildings, and is returned to the Building Improvement Support Centre. For enquiries on the IoT FDS or its application procedures, call 2272 9112 or write to fsdbisc@hkfsd.gov.hk. The department has also stated it will publish a list of service providers interested in providing IoT FDS services so owners can select one with a documented basis. Wanlin supplies the device, gateway, platform and application layer to appointed contractors and CFATS service providers rather than contracting directly with owners' corporations, so the statutory demarcation of responsibility is preserved.
Answer: Minimum order quantity is typically 50 pieces per model on a mixed order, lead time runs 18 to 35 days depending on radio SKU and certification scope, and EXW, FOB Shenzhen, CFR, CIF and DDP are all supported. Private label, white label, custom housing colour, printed manual, packaging and bilingual Traditional Chinese and English labelling are done at the factory. Radio SKUs cover 433 MHz, 868 MHz and 915 MHz plus LoRaWAN, NB-IoT and 4G LTE Cat-1 variants, matched to the destination before the order is released rather than left as an installer firmware choice. Customers can run the platform on an on-premise 2U rack server with UPS-backed supply or on a private hosted cloud; backups run weekly and include device history, and quarterly hardware inspection and drill records are produced from the console.
Wanlin wireless fire alarm system programmes have shipped into Hong Kong SAR to support the Cap. 572 target building programme spanning all 18 districts, including contracted works in Central and Western, Wan Chai, Eastern, Southern, Yau Tsim Mong, Sham Shui Po, Kowloon City, Wong Tai Sin, Kwun Tong, Tsuen Wan, Tuen Mun, Yuen Long, North, Tai Po, Sha Tin, Sai Kung, Kwai Tsing and Islands, which together cover the whole target building programme. Below are 4 anonymised project references drawn from 2023-2026 deployments. Each record states what the earlier arrangement was, what was actually installed, and what was measured or agreed afterwards, rather than restating a capability claim.
Case 1: Three-block estate consolidated onto one platform instance, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong SAR. Before: three blocks and one management office with two staff, facing the prospect of administering three separate systems with three separate interfaces. After: one monitoring platform instance across all three blocks with role-based access, and device naming matched to the scheme already used for door access control. Measured outcome: monthly performance reports are generated from the console rather than typed by hand, and the night guard no longer translates between two naming conventions during an alarm. Fire brigade liaison accepted the WANLIN-860 cause-and-effect matrix after a witnessed test across 133 devices, with the investigation hold set to 4 minutes to suit the local response plan.
Case 2: Six-storey target building replacing a withdrawn hose reel design, Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong SAR. Before Intervention: about 14,000 target buildings fall under the Fire Safety (Buildings) Ordinance Cap. 572, and roughly 3,600 of them are six storeys or below. This one had a priced hose reel tender that was withdrawn when the structural engineer refused the tank loading. After Intervention: eleven multi-sensor smoke and carbon monoxide detectors inside units, six corridor detectors on the common floors, six 4G LoRa fire alarm gateways with integrated manual call point and alarm sounder with dual SIM cards, twelve 5 kg powder portable fire extinguishers, and one monitoring platform instance linked to the Fire Services Communications Centre through the computerised fire alarm transmission system. Measured Outcome: installation completed in eleven working days with the building occupied, against the one to two years typically quoted for the hose reel route; the difference in consultant estimate sat at roughly HK$600,000 against roughly HK$200,000, and no structural penetrations were required. Spares holding for this site sits at 9 percent of the installed population, sized against a 21-month battery replacement round rather than a full panel swap.
Case 3: Composite building, ground-floor restaurant below residential floors, Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong SAR. Before: cooking aerosol from two restaurant units had previously triggered two whole-floor evacuations a month under the outgoing single-criterion devices. After: dual-criterion smoke and carbon monoxide units in the residential parts and heat detectors in the two restaurant kitchens, with two-stage logic that raises a pre-alarm to the owners' group but only mobilises once carbon monoxide rises with smoke. Measured outcome: four pre-alarms in six months, all traced to wok cooking during vent filter cleaning, and zero general fire alarms. The trigger-to-platform latency measured during commissioning was 8 seconds on mains-fed devices and 17 seconds on battery devices, inside the 10-second and 20-second limits set out for fire signals. Fire brigade liaison accepted the WANLIN-860 cause-and-effect matrix after a witnessed test across 159 devices, with the investigation hold set to 6 minutes to suit the local response plan.
Case 4: Subdivided flat landlord portfolio across two old buildings, Mong Kok, Hong Kong SAR. Before: five landlord entities each managing between four and eleven subdivided units, no common riser, and a practical refusal by tenants to allow ceiling work during the day. After: one multi-sensor detector per unit, two per reconfigured corridor, and one shared gateway per unit cluster reporting over LoRa to a single 4G gateway. Measured outcome: each floor plate was completed in two evening shifts, the radio survey showed every device above receiver threshold with margin at both ends of the building, and the portfolio subscriber holds one monitoring platform login with per-unit-zone naming rather than five separate interfaces to reconcile. Spares holding for this site sits at 3 percent of the installed population, sized against a 29-month battery replacement round rather than a full panel swap.
Wanlin offers 3 partnership tiers for cross-border wireless fire alarm system buyers, EPC contractors, main contractors on phased handovers, hotel, hospital and education estates, retail and mall operators, warehouse and logistics operators, transport authorities, heritage property owners, contractors and overseas cooperation partners:
| Tier | Annual Volume | Discount | Exclusivity | Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Authorized Reseller | USD 30,000+ | 0% (list price) | No | Standard warranty per family |
| Regional Distributor | USD 100,000+ | 22% off list | Single country | Co-marketing USD 6,000/year, joint certification cost-share |
| Strategic OEM Partner | USD 320,000+ | 32% off list | Multi-country | Dedicated engineering team, joint roadmap, 18-month price lock |
All partners receive: free firmware updates for life of product, free DOA replacement within 60 days, dedicated account manager and response within 4 business hours, free certification documentation and test report copies, destination-language manual support, coverage and spacing design per project, commissioning checklist and function-test guidance using the detector test aerosol and the test key, integration assistance including Modbus register maps and MQTT topic structure for partners running their own servers, and one joint exhibition presence per year at the Hong Kong International Building and Decoration Materials and Hardware Fair, the Asia Pacific Fire Safety Exhibition, Canton Fair, or Intersec Shanghai on a cost-share basis.
Wanlin Group 2026 wireless fire alarm system export program is now open for global B2B buyers, regional distributors, EPC contractors, main contractors running phased handovers, facility management groups, hotel, hospital and education estates, retail and mall operators, warehouse and logistics operators, data centre and battery storage integrators, transport authorities, heritage and conservation bodies, mining and metals groups, cross-border trading companies and OEM and ODM partners across 60+ destination markets. To initiate a sourcing discussion, request a quotation with the target device list, floor areas and radio preference for the destination country.
We sincerely invite global safety equipment buyers, national importers, tender bidders, EPC and system integration contractors, main contractors on phased handovers, hotel, hospital and education estate teams, warehouse and logistics operators, transport and infrastructure authorities, conservation bodies, mining and metals groups, facility management contractors, insurers, system integrators and cross-border trading companies to engage in long-term cooperation with Wanlin Group as your China-based OEM and ODM partner, regional exclusive distributor or strategic global supplier.
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working_principle: Supervised wireless device supervision with cause-and-effect programming, dual-path alarm transmission and a non-volatile event log sensing_element: Dual-band radio supervision of up to 1,000 wireless devices across 32 zones, with per-device status, RSSI and battery telemetry alarm_threshold: Fire, fault, pre-alarm, supervisory and test states per device, with user-configurable cause-and-effect matrices across 32 zones accuracy_class: EN 54-2 and EN 54-4 control and indicating equipment, GB 4717 CCCF, 1,000 supervised device registrations, 50 concurrent browser users on the web console, 10,000-entry non-volatile event log with a real-time clock response_time: Alarm processing latency under 3 s from device trigger to sounder circuit activation, well inside the EN 54-2 mandate, dual-path transmission within 10 s power_supply: 220-240V AC 50/60 Hz with a 24V DC sealed lead-acid backup set giving 24 h standby and 30 min of alarm power_consumption: 18 W standby, 45 W in full alarm with all sounder circuits active output_signal: Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz 802.11 b/g/n plus 10/100 Ethernet with Modbus TCP and MQTT, dual-path transmission over Wi-Fi and Ethernet coverage_area: Up to 1,000 wireless devices across 32 zones, extended by 868D gateways for multi-building campuses alarm_output: Two supervised sounder circuits plus fire and fault relays, normal mode sounding every unit within 60 s of any trigger, password-protected investigation mode holding the general alarm 5 min and cancelling automatically if a second device on the same floor activates, test and evacuation modes, an unattended alarm escalation timer set to 10 min, and named group notification through WhatsApp, SMS, email and voice covering 30 recipients with a 5,000 message per year baseline ip_rating: IP30 control cabinet indoor, IP54 with the gasketed door kit for plant rooms operating_temp: 0 deg C to +45 deg C, optional cabinet heater to -20 deg C humidity_range: 10-90% RH non-condensing housing_material: 1.2 mm cold-rolled steel cabinet with an epoxy powder coat, hinged lockable door and a 7-inch touch HMI dimensions_weight: 520 mm x 420 mm x 160 mm, 12.5 kg net including batteries certifications: EN 54-2 / EN 54-4 / EN 54-21 / CE / RoHS / REACH / FCC / GB 4717 CCCF / Wi-Fi Alliance certified