15 Sep 2025

Guidance document on The application of Scaling Factors contained in EN15004-1 Annex I

This guidance is intended to provide the background to contents of Annex I of EN15004-1:2024 and explain how it should be applied by system designers

In the revision to EN15004-1 published in December 2024, several key changes were introduced from the 2019 edition.

The Euralarm guidance document ‘EN 15004-1 title ‘Guidance on Key changes between the 2019 and the 2024 editions of the EN 15004-1 standard’, gave an overview of the changes. One of the changes included Annex I, a new section concerning the use of scaling factors.

This guidance is intended to provide the background to contents of Annex I and explain how it should be applied by system designers.