2025 NFPA Conference & Expo Takeaways

Compliance Meets Capability at the 2025 NFPA Conference

You may have attended the 2025 NFPA Conference & Expo for any number of reasons: networking with industry professionals, future-focused ideas, or real-world applications for the fire and life safety space, to name a few. If you were like our Space Age Electronics team, you found this year’s event delivered. It was the perfect opportunity to listen, learn, and showcase solutions designed with the community’s evolving needs in mind.

Making Interfaces Work Smarter

Those of you who have been paying attention to fire safety systems trends have surely noticed a concept that’s starting to gain interest: touchscreen interfacing for smoke control—a focal point of the Space Age Electronics booth this year. Touchscreens are nothing new, but applying them to enhance control, clarity, and speed during emergency response events is where you will start to see the real value.

If you were able to spend time interacting with the demo on display at the Space Age Electronics booth, you got to explore how a graphical layout might improve situational awareness and reduce comprehension time. Making essential systems more intuitive, more efficient, code compliant, and safer to use under pressure is the goal—not flashy design.

An Expanded Experience at the 2025 NFPA Conference

Once again, the 2025 NFPA Conference & Expo provided a space for an open, yet guided experience that allowed safety-focused professionals to engage with multiple industry categories. You may have found this format proved particularly helpful if you were familiar with only one or two sides of the industry.

Similarly, Space Age Electronics designed this year’s booth with the broader life-safety strategy in mind. When you visited the Space Age booth and were familiar with only one or two of our solutions, you got to explore related offerings in surge protection, prefabrication, and detection. By the time you left the Space Age booth, you could connect the dots between solutions and how they integrate creating a comprehensive fire & life safety ecosystem.

If there’s a single word that defined our NFPA experience this year, it’s alignment. What Space Age Electronics brought to the show reflected months of strategic planning—but more importantly, it aligned with what you all have been telling us you need to be more competitive, efficient, and compliant. It’s through meetings with all of you at these events that we reaffirm our direction to continue building solutions that do more than meet codes—they must support the people installing, managing, and depending on them.

Collaborating Over Conversations

While we’re proud of the Space Age Electronics presence at this year’s expo, the bigger win was the collaboration—with our own team and with all of you who could visit. Much of the value came not from what we displayed, but from the conversations that followed—where you brought us your challenges and we explored potential solutions together.

Whether you saw us at the Space Age booth or while we visited your booth, had a chance to learn something new together during an educational session, grabbed some time to catch-up after hours, or networked during the Automatic Fire Alarm Association Annual Breakfast, it was our pleasure to see and hear from all of you—partners, customers, and friends. We look forward to doing it all again next year, bigger and better than before.

Let It Roll

If you couldn’t make it to the 2025 NFPA Conference—or if you’d like a deeper look at what we shared—our team is happy to connect. When you’re planning your next project or modernizing an existing system, we’re here to help you be competitive, efficient, and compliant at every turn.