Network-Based Real-time Integrated Fire Detection and Alarm (FDA) System with Building Automation

Abstract

Abstract. Fire alarm systems have become increasingly an important lifesaving technology in many aspects, such as applications to detect, monitor and control any fire hazard. A large sum of money is being spent annually to install and maintain the fire alarm systems in buildings to protect property and lives from the unexpected spread of fire. Several methods are already developed and it is improving on a daily basis to reduce the cost as well as increase quality. An integrated Fire Detection and Alarm (FDA) systems with building automation was studied, to reduce cost and improve their reliability by preventing false alarm. This work proposes an improved framework for FDA system to ensure a robust intelligent network of FDA control panels in real-time. A shortest path algorithmic was chosen for series of buildings connected by fiber optic network. The framework shares information and communicates with each fire alarm panels connected in peer to peer configuration and declare the network state using network address declaration from any building connected in network. The fiber-optic connection was proposed to reduce signal noises, thus increasing large area coverage, real-time communication and long-term safety. Based on this proposed method an experimental setup was designed and a prototype system was developed to validate the performance in practice. Also, the distributed network system was proposed to connect with an optional remote monitoring terminal panel to validate proposed network performance and ensure fire survivability where the information is sequentially transmitted. The proposed FDA system is different from traditional fire alarm and detection system in terms of topology as it manages group of buildings in an optimal and efficient manner.Introduction IntroductionFire detection process for trading and housing places is a main requirement to reduce destruction of personal property due to fire incident both natural and induced. Combining the network with controller approach, an innovative improvement has been made in building automation. The real-time surveillance system not only monitors the building automation ministrations but also control the FDMS by gathering, observing and storing related information. Among the basic technologies, networking had been used for improved building automation controller construction. Research notes that the concept of networking based controller used in many building automation process are more effective in fire detection and protection [1][2][3].

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