The ‘no-fire-detector’—an alternative fire detection concept?

✍ Scribed by R. Siebel

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 243 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0379-7112
• DOI: 10.1016/s0379-7112(96)00032-x

✦ Synopsis

The 'no-fire-detector' estimates whether the currently observed situation in terms of fire phenomena belongs to normal ambient conditions in its particular installation environment. It initiates an alarm only if the observed situation is extremely unlikely when compared with its experience. Starting with a suitable set of parameters, this concept requires the 'no-fire-detector' to collect and store experience parameters relating to ambient conditions continuously after it has been installed, This is a significant difference as compared to the 'classical' fire detector, which is installed with constant parameter settings determined for the fire case either in standard fire experiments or simulations (e.g. in the smoke-or temperature-channel).