Conceptual Design for an Automatic Residential Remote Fire Alarm System (ARRAS)

摘要

The subject of this report deals with Fire Detection. The study to develop a conceptual design for an Automatic Residential Remote Alarm System (ARRAS) deals with the early detection of residential fires, a means of automatically alerting the occupants to the presence of fire and of summoning fire fighting and life saving assistance. It is acknowledged that products and materials capable of providing a workable ARRAS, have been used in commercial and industrial alarm systems for some years. These commercial type systems with some cost effective modifications, have also been applied to residential occupancies in recent years. The main disadvantage of residential ARRAS attempts to date have been cost or false/needless alarm related. The task of the study was to determine the status of presently available products and the level of today's technology to determine if an ARRAS which would have large scale application and acceptability is currently available or technically feasible. The study concludes that the ARRAS system hold promise and should be pursued at least through the design, procurement and installation of one or more working prototype systems in typical residential communities for purposes of gathering data on the performance and reliability of the system.