A certification tester is the basic instrument for certifying that a building's structured wiring meets industry standards. At one time, structured wiring referred to a facility's communications network, but that has changed. The continuing trend toward integrated systems incorporates surveillance, security and alarm, and building controls into structured wiring, and they should be certified to applicable standards. Two primary suppliers of certification testers-Ideal Industries and Fluke Networks-discuss advances in certification testers and the extended applications for which they are used. According to Dan Payerle, business unit manager for Ideal Networks, a division of Ideal Industries: "Integrated systems-such as paging, CCTV, HVAC, access control, telemetry, digital signage, etc.-fall into what the TIA [Telecommunications Industry Association] calls intelligent building systems.
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