Fire fighting system : embedded system

Abstract

In the world today, firefighting is one of first priorities to any country or government for its survival. Fire outbreak is one of the biggest setbacks due to the enormous losses associated with it, the losses can be property or lives or monetary. In well developed countries, for example the United States, China and several European countries, etc. there exist advanced mechanisms of firefighting like, AFT portable water mist and CAFS systems. These give fire fighters a bigger advantage in the fight against fire. However, in low developed countries like Uganda and many African countries, without the above mentioned firefighting mechanisms, firefighting is very difficult and a very big challenge to these countries. Given the fact that they have gotten poor infrastructure i.e., Poor road networks for the movement of the fire brigade trucks to places that have caught fire, poor communication means of network, without advanced firefighting tools fire accidents remain a big problem to many places of these countries. Firefighting system is an embedded system with GSM capabilities that uses sensors like the smoke detectors and fire sensors to detect fire, activate an alarm and also set off the water sprinklers of the building and then send a message to the nearby fire brigade department and other people responsible like the local authorities to rapidly respond, the message contains the location of the building, the time the fire started, how to switch off the system and an option to forward the message to different people. The system sends a message every after six hours to responsible people to counter reliability. The system automatically goes off when the temperature reduces to ‘normal’.