• DocumentCode
    2976734
  • Title

    Autonomous fire extinguishing system

  • Author

    Rehman, Akif ; Masood, Nouman ; Arif, Suki ; Shahbaz, Umar ; Sarwar, F. ; Maqsood, K. ; Imran, Muhammad ; Pasha, M.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Islamabad, Pakistan
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    22-23 Oct. 2012
  • Firstpage
    218
  • Lastpage
    222
  • Abstract
    Fires are very dangerous and detrimental to life, property, and the environment. They spread rapidly and indiscriminately obliterate all things in their path. Fighting fires entails undeniable danger to life and the majority of suppression systems used to control them is at a broad-spectrum or macro scale. We present the design, fabrication, and testing of an autonomous fire extinguishing system. This system provides a unique solution to the problem of fires and their destruction by targeting the initial ignition of the fire and suppressing it before it starts to increase in intensity and range. The presented system detects, targets, and extinguishes a fire within a working space by using heat sensors, a flow control system, servo motors, and a water extinguishing gun. The system scans its workspace through motors and uses thermopile arrays to detect heat concentration gradients in its range. After the detection of the fire, the system then locks on to the target by extrapolating its location. Efficiency of the system, suppression accuracy, response time, power consumption, and work space area are also documented and presented in this paper. Future considerations and recommendations are highlighted to advance the system´s design, efficiency, and scope. This is an indigenous solution to fire fighting in world and it is to make environment a healthier and safer place for the future.
  • Keywords
    chemically reactive flow; extrapolation; fires; flow control; flow sensors; heat transfer; ignition; servomotors; temperature sensors; thermopiles; autonomous fire extinguishing system design; broad-spectrum scale; fire detection; flow control system; heat concentration gradient detection; heat sensors; location extrapolation; macroscale; nozzle water suppression; power consumption; pyroelectric thermopile array; response time; servo motors; suppression systems; system efficiency; water extinguishing gun; work space area; DC motors; Fires; Pulse width modulation; Servomotors; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Automation; Autonomous; Fire Detection; Fire Extinguishing System; Flow Control System; Heat Sensors; Nozzle Water Suppression; Pyro Electric Thermopile Array; Servo Motors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (ICRAI), 2012 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Rawalpindi
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-4884-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICRAI.2012.6413387
  • Filename
    6413387