Fire alarm systems need to be inspected, tested and tagged annually. Testing must include all smoke detectors, manual pull devices, annunciators, visual indicators and strobes, control units, voice/alarm communications systems and any other devices that are a part of the fire alarm system.
it will need a port like this one to get more power from the usb since it only give 5.0 volts and this powered usb give up12 to 24 volts so you dont have that in a laptop and there is no way it could raise the power on the usb port in a laptop without damaging something .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_USB.
The USB specification defines support for low power devices -- devices, such as mice, keyboards and joysticks, that draw less than 100 milliamps of electric current from the USB power line -- and one of the low power mode features is called USB Selective Suspend.