Placing fire detectors in a forest is usually associated with powering problems since the sensors do not have access to external power supply and a periodical change of internal batteries is an undesired option. This paper presents an approach where the fire sensor itself, when heated by nearby fire, generates electrical energy to power a radio transmitter. Presented energizing fire sensor is e...

Title of Thesis: PREDICTING SMOKE DETECTOR RESPONSE USING A QUANTITATIVE SALT-WATER MODELING TECHNIQUE Sean Phillip Jankiewicz, Master of Sciences, 2004 Thesis Directed By: Professor André W. Marshall Department of Fire Protection Engineering This investigation provides a detailed analysis of the hydraulic analogue technique used as a predictive tool for understanding smoke detector response wi...

A Novel Remote Monitoring of Forest Fire Detection based on WSN VAIJANATH V. YERIGERI , PRAMOD ARVIND KULKARNI 1 Professor & HOD, Department of Instrumentation Engg. Professor & HOD, Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering M.B.E.Society’s College of Engineering AMBAJOGAI-431517 ,Dist:BEED(MS) _________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT: A...

Title of Document: WAKING EFFECTIVENESS OF EMERGENCY ALERTING DEVICES FOR THE HEARING ABLE, HARD OF HEARING, AND DEAF POPULATIONS Erin Mack Ashley Doctor of Philosophy 2007 Directed By: Associate Professor Dr. James A. Milke Department of Fire Protection Engineering The study presented measures the awakening effectiveness of a number of commercially available emergency alerting devices. Three g...

Montgomery County, Maryland was the first major jurisdiction to pass a law requiring smoke detectors in all homes. Smoke detector coverage in the county was evaluated five years after the law's implementation and compared to the coverage in neighboring Fairfax County, Virginia, which has no such law. Firefighters visited 651 randomly selected owner-occupied homes and tested each detector. While...

INTRODUCTION The “Smoke” experiment is a flight definition investigation that seeks to increase our understanding of spacecraft fire detection through measurements of particulate size distributions of preignition smokes from typical spacecraft materials. Owing to the catastrophic risk posed by even a very small fire in a spacecraft, the design goal for spacecraft fire detection is to detect the...

The goal of interest point detectors is to find, in an unsupervised way, keypoints easy to extract and at the same time robust to image transformations. We present a novel set of saliency features based on image singularities that takes into account the region content in terms of intensity and local structure. The region complexity is estimated by means of the entropy of the gray-level informat...