Although it’s an intricate piece of equipment with a number of components — including a facepiece, a breathing tube and a blower that passes contaminated air through a HEPA filter — a powered air purifying respirator (PAPR) depends heavily on something fairly ordinary in order to function well: a battery.

Detcon’s SmartWireless® Site Sentinel is a powerful stand-alone gas detection system designed for fixed, semi-fixed and transportable use in light and heavy industrial environments.