Be ready for Maharashtra's fire ACMS rule in days — without replacing a single panel.

Section 3(3A) of the Maharashtra Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures Act, 2006, inserted in 2023, requires the owner — or the occupier, where the owner cannot be traced — of a building specified under section 45 to provide its firefighting systems with an Automated Continuous Monitoring System (ACMS). The system is specified in the Appendix to the Maharashtra Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures (Amendment) Rules, 2025, notified on 12 June 2025: an IoT-based system that reports the status of pumps, tanks, risers, detection, public address and pressurisation fans in real time.

The buildings specified under section 45(1) of the Act. These are buildings more than 30 metres tall used as a hotel, hospital, business, mercantile or mixed occupancy; residential buildings more than 70 metres tall; large oil and natural gas installations such as refineries and LPG bottling plants; industrial buildings with moderately hazardous activities and a built-up area of 30,000 square metres or more; and industrial buildings with highly hazardous activities and a built-up area of 10,000 square metres or more. Confirm your building’s classification with your Chief Fire Officer.

Already. The Appendix to the 2025 Amendment Rules says Phase I starts with immediate effect from the rules coming into force; the rules were notified in the Maharashtra Government Gazette on 12 June 2025. Phase II — sending critical alarms to the local fire and emergency services — is to follow at a later stage, and no date has been set for it.

Both are certificates issued by a Licensed Agency (licensed under section 9 of the Act) and submitted by the owner or occupier to the Chief Fire Officer or Director. Form A-1 certifies that the ACMS has been provided as the Appendix requires. Form B-1 is issued twice a year, in January and July, and certifies — with the help of the ACMS — that the firefighting systems were kept in good repair and efficient working condition over the period. A separate certificate is needed for each building.

Not as a separate application. The fire NOC — the Fire Safety Approval issued by the Chief Fire Officer — fixes which firefighting systems your building must have. For a section 45 building, section 3(3A) then requires those approved systems to be connected to an ACMS, certified by a Licensed Agency in Form A-1. After that, every January and July the Form B-1 sits alongside the Form B maintenance certificate, which is what most owners mean by “fire NOC renewal”. Buildings outside section 45 still need a fire NOC and Form B, but not an ACMS. Confirm the position for your building with the Chief Fire Officer.

Twenty parameters: main hydrant, sprinkler, standby diesel/electric, jockey and booster pump run status; diesel tank level; power to the main hydrant and sprinkler pumps; hydrant and sprinkler riser low pressure (below 5 bar for sprinklers); underground/above-ground and overhead fire tank levels; detection operation status, control and repeater panel status, panel battery and manual call points; public address status; staircase and lift lobby pressurisation fans; and basement supply and exhaust fans.

Clause 4 of the Appendix sets them out: machine-to-machine data over MQTTS, uploaded to a cloud portal at a one-minute interval over 4G/5G, Ethernet or Wi-Fi; an SMS alarm if no data arrives for more than 15 minutes; a UPS-backed gateway that runs for up to 7 hours in a power cut, stores at least 10,000 event logs and timestamps them with a real-time clock; data and alarm reports from the portal; SMS and email alerts; events stored in an open-source database; at least 99% uptime; and provision for an API to send critical alarms to the fire service in future.

No. FlareSens is OEM-independent and non-intrusive. It reads your existing panels through potential-free contacts and adds pressure, level and run-status sensing to your pumps, tanks and fans — whatever the brand. Nothing is ripped out.

They are close cousins but not the same law. Maharashtra’s requirement comes from section 3(3A) of its Act and the 2025 Amendment Rules, applies to section 45 buildings, and runs on Licensed Agency certificates (Forms A-1 and B-1). Delhi’s comes from Rule 37 and the Seventh Schedule of the Delhi Fire Service (Amendment) Rules, 2025, applies to a much wider set of occupancies, and uses empanelled fire safety auditors. Dates differ too: Maharashtra Phase I has applied since June 2025.