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The Intelligent Fire Detection System
Student: Wade Lockwood
Supervisor: Richard Cocks
Category: Engineering Thesis Project - Electronics
The objective of this project is to design a fire alarm network that can provide the domestic market with a fire detection system ensuring a high level of protection against internal dwelling fires. The implementation of this product integrates several technologies to enhance its operation as a fire detection network and offer users convenience driven functions. The design incorporates IR and RF communications, to effectively network the detection system and allows remote control over the device. It also incorporates a mains converted DC supply, together with operational capabilities from existing fire detection methodologies.
With the implementation of this device I hope to drastically reduce the number of people killed or maimed as a result of domestic house fires. The design prototype shall present an option in the marketplace that will alleviate potentially harmful situations regarding the malfunction and design limitations of current domestic fire detection configurations.
The resultant prototype displayed a functioning mains fed power supply and a dual sensor arrangement that operated to specification. The emergency/auxiliary lighting system hardware functioned when desired and the infrared communication technology was successfully decoded. Future development will see the integration of all working modules together with the relevant firmware.