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An Intelligent Fire Detection Algorithm for Fire Detector  

Hong, Sung-Ho (Fire Insurers Laboratories of Korea)
Choi, Moon-Su (Fire Insurers Laboratories of Korea)
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International Journal of Safety / v.11, no.1, 2012 , pp. 6-10 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents a study on the analysis for reducing the number of false alarms in fire detection system. In order to intelligent algorithm fuzzy logic is adopted in developing fire detection system to reduce false alarm. The intelligent fire detection algorithm compared and analyzed the fire and non-fire signatures measured in circuits simulating flame fire and smoldering fire. The algorithm has input variables obtained by fire experiment with K-type thermocouple and optical smoke sensor. Also triangular membership function is used for inference rules. And the antecedent part of inference rules consists of temperature and smoke density, and the consequent part consists of fire probability. A fire-experiment is conducted with paper, plastic, and n-heptane to simulate actual fire situation. The results show that the intelligent fire detection algorithm suggested in this study can more effectively discriminate signatures between fire and similar fire.
Keywords
fire detection; intelligent algorithm; fire detector;
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