Drawings in minutes.
Not days.
Drag-and-drop site planning for fire and security engineers. Zone plans, as-fitted drawings, and fire strategy plans in your browser — no CAD, no separate software, built directly into the EM8 Portal you already use.
CAD is overkill. Drawing on paper is underkill.
Most fire and security engineers don't need AutoCAD. They need to take a customer's floor plan, mark up the design, and hand a clean drawing to the install team. Plan Guardian is the right tool for that job — built into the platform you already use.
Drag-and-drop drawing
Fire, intruder, CCTV, access and emergency lighting symbols on top of any PDF, image or sketch. Polygon room-fill, real-scale measurement, and proper zone marking. The drawing tool you'd build for yourself, if you had a year to build it.
Lives in your platform
Every drawing tied to the customer and site in EM8 Portal. Versioned (Rev A, B, C), audited, and visible to engineers on the EM8 HQ mobile app the moment they open the job. No more "which plan is the latest one?".
Connects everything
Symbols on the plan link to FireLog365 equipment. Push device counts and cable runs straight to an EM8 Core quote. Auto-populate Surveillance Guardian's live site map. Design once, use everywhere.
Built by engineers,
for engineers.
Engineers shouldn't need a CAD licence to draw a zone chart. They shouldn't need a separate subscription either, or a tool that has nothing to do with the rest of their business.
You're not buying a drawing tool.
You're getting connected drawings.
Standalone drawing tools — including the well-known browser-based ones — solve one problem: drawing. Plan Guardian solves the whole job, because it lives inside the platform that already runs your business.
Customer already there
No re-entering details. The site, address, contacts, and history are already on the record.
Equipment register linked
Symbols on the plan link to real firelog_equipment records. NFC tags, certificates, faults — all flow back.
Quotes auto-generate
47 smoke detectors, 12 call points, 230m of cable. Parts, labour and pricing flow into an EM8 Core quote in one click.
Engineer workflow ready
The drawing flows straight to the engineer's phone via the EM8 HQ app. No emailing PDFs, no chasing the latest revision.
Audit trail automatic
Who changed what, when, why. Versioned revisions, complete change history, no manual filing.
No second subscription
A module of EM8 Portal — not yet another monthly bill from a separate vendor. One platform, one invoice.
Pairs with the rest of the Guardian range
Surveillance Guardian
Cameras placed in Plan Guardian automatically appear on the Surveillance Guardian Site Map View, with live status indicators and current snapshots per camera.
EXPLORE →FireLog365
Devices placed in Plan Guardian link to real equipment records, NFC tags, and inspection certificates. Tap a symbol on site to see the full history.
EXPLORE →EM8 Core
Quotes and jobs auto-generate from the symbols placed on a plan. Parts, labour and pricing flow straight into a quote — no double-entry, no estimating from scratch.
EXPLORE →One tool, five workflows
Plan Guardian works the way each part of your team works — from the surveyor pricing the job to the engineer marking the as-fitted on site.
Surveyors & designers
- Draw zone plans for fire alarm systems in minutes
- Produce as-designed drawings to attach to quotes
- Generate fire strategy plans for building control
- Show CCTV coverage with field-of-view cones — prove dead zones don't exist
Installers & engineers
- See the latest drawing on the EM8 HQ mobile app on site
- Mark up as-fitted changes against the as-designed plan
- Tap a symbol to see the equipment record, NFC tag, last inspection
- No more "which plan should I be working from?"
Office staff & admins
- Versioned, audited drawings tied to the customer and site
- Send drawings to clients with company branding from one click
- Maintain a proper drawing register without filing PDFs in folders
Sales
- Walk a prospect through your proposed system on their own site plan
- Demonstrate coverage, sounder placement, camera angles visually
- Generate as-designed documentation directly from the proposal
Monitoring stations & channel partners
- Use a partner's branded site plan templates with minimal effort
- White-label option means drawings carry the partner's branding
- A drawing register that's visible across the partner's customer base
Five minutes. Eight steps. One drawing.
Import the background
Drop in a PDF, image or sketch.
Drop in symbols
12 detectors, 3 call points, 2 sounders.
Mark zones
Polygon-fill an irregular room.
Set the scale
Measure cable runs in metres.
Add title block
Logo, A3 print preview, ready.
Save as Rev A
Tied to the customer's site.
Engineer sees it
Open the EM8 HQ app on site.
Push to quote
Symbol list → EM8 Core quote.
Flat rate. No per-seat tax.
Plan Guardian is a module of EM8 Portal. Per-company pricing — your whole team uses it, one bill, no per-user surprises.
- Full Plan Guardian feature set
- Unlimited drawings during trial
- All discipline symbol libraries
- Mobile engineer view
- Bundled with EM8 Portal trial
- Unlimited drawings & revisions
- As-designed vs as-fitted dual workflow
- Symbol → FireLog365 equipment linking
- Auto-quote from drawing → EM8 Core
- Engineer mobile mark-up via EM8 HQ
- Field-of-view cones for CCTV
- Auto-generated zone register
- Full audit history per drawing
Channel partners receive 12% recurring revenue share. Talk to us →
You might be wondering...
From sketch to signed drawing
in five minutes.
Try Plan Guardian free for 30 days alongside any EM8 Portal trial. No card required, full feature set, your whole team gets access.