Case Study: East Coast Theme Park achieves reliable smoke detection and rapid installation with OSID by Xtralis

East Coast Theme Park - Customer Case Study

A popular East Coast theme park preparing to open a new 3½‑minute indoor/outdoor roller coaster faced a critical life‑safety challenge: the indoor “show” building used darkness, strobes and other effects that caused the originally specified video smoke detection to fail during normal operating conditions, just days before the ride’s debut. With the project on a tight timeline and traditional spot detectors impractical at ceiling height, the team needed a reliable, fast-to-install alternative.

They replaced the failed system with OSID (Open‑area Smoke Imaging Detection) by Xtralis, deploying seven imager/emitter sets to provide volumetric, three‑dimensional coverage that resists reflections, dust, fog, steam and vibration. Installation and commissioning were completed in a day without needing exact alignment, avoided hundreds of spot detectors, cut inspection and labor time (up to ~70% faster than beams), and the system performed flawlessly through the ride’s busiest season, lowering total cost of ownership and ensuring the attraction opened on schedule.