Using LabVIEW software for a fire and alarm technology lab

Author

Franz, H.

Author_Institution

Houston- Downtown Univ., Houston, TX

fYear

2005

fDate

22-25 May 2005

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The University of Houston Downtown in Houston, Texas has a four-year safety and fire engineering technology program with a fire protection course, which in the catalog is the Fire Suppression & Detection Systems. The course is often referred to as the fire alarm system course. The fire alarm system course includes the design and use of detection, signaling and suppression systems. The course laboratory has both software and hardware. LabVIEW computer software is being used to develop standalone software projects, and to design and interact with hardware for a class with students that have different backgrounds

Keywords

alarm systems; computer aided instruction; data acquisition; educational courses; fires; virtual instrumentation; Fire Suppression & Detection Systems; Lab VIEW software; course laboratory; detection sytems; fire alarm system course; fire and alarm technology lab; fire engineering technology program; fire protection course; safety engineering technology program; signaling systems; standalone software projects; suppression systems; Alarm systems; Design engineering; Fires; Hardware; Laboratories; Logic design; Protection; Signal design; Software performance; Software safety;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electro Information Technology, 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lincoln, NE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9232-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EIT.2005.1626957

Filename

1626957