• 한국안전학회지
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.69-75
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• 2022

Fire-alarm systems are safety equipment that facilitate rapid evacuation and early suppression in case of fire. It is highly desirable that fire-alarm systems have low false-alarm rates and are thus reliable. Until now, researchers have attempted to improve detector performance by applying new technologies such as IoT. To this end, IoT-based fire-detection systems have been developed. However, due to scarcity of large-scale operational data, researchers have barely studied malfunctioning in fire-alarm systems or attempted to reduce false-alarm rates in these systems. In this study, we analyzed false-alarm rates of smoke/temperature detectors and unwanted fire-alarm signal patterns at K institution, where Korea's largest IoT-based fire-detection system operates. After analyzing the fire alarm occurrences at the institution for five years, we inferred that the IoT-based fire-detection system showed lower false-alarm rates compared to the automatic fire-detection equipment. We analyzed the detection pattern by dividing it into two parts: normal operation and unwanted fire alarms. When a specific signal pattern was filtered out, the false-alarm rate was reduced to 66.9% in the smoke detector and to 46.9% in the temperature detector.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.26-30
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• 2003

본 논문은 화재발생시 열감지기가 오동작하는 특성을 열방출률(Heat Release Rate : HRR)을 이용하여 경계값을 정량적으로 나타내고 그 경계값을 기준으로 감지기의 오동작 영역을 분석하였다. Crib 형태의 목재를 가지고 small-scale의 화재실험을 통하여 화재감지기의 동작시간 등을 측정하였고 이를 이용하여 화재감지기가 동작하는 순간의 HRR을 계산하였다. 화재실험으로부터 얻은 변수를 가지고 화재감지기가 오동작하는 HRR의 경계값을 계산한 결과 정온식 감지기는 20.24 kW 차동식 감지기는 13.59 kW로 나타났다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.6-12
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• 1993

Now it is reported that there are many companies and factories which confront to the problem of false alarm in Automatic Fire Detecting System (AFDS). Though an AFDS is a high-priced and very important device in detecting a fire. the problem degrades the reliability and utility, eventually faith. of the system. This is a research concerned about the problem of false alarm of fire detectors in an AFDS. Structure of detectors was modeled up as a general K out-of n system. and reliability characteristics including false alarm rate and missed alarm rate, are derived from it. For decision of an optimal structure of detectors. preliminary analysis on various criteria is accomplished. It is concluded that appropriate modification of a detector with plural sensors may increase the system reliability and decrease the false alarm rate.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.41-49
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• 2011

The automatic fire detection system is an important facility installed with focusing on minimizing the damage from a fire. This paper presents in the followings as the methods to reduce the false alarm of the automatic fire detection system; first, to prepare for legal standard so that revised legal standard can be applied to the fire fighting property prior to revision; second, to introduce the performance based fire detection protection design in the law based fire protection design; third, to maintain the wiring of worn-out detector; forth, to introduce an evaluation system to the education for the fire warden; fifth, to extend the standard of MTBF(meantime between failure) of the detector; sixth, to extend of installing the analog type detector; seventh, to improve the structure of reset switch.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.14-21
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• 2022

The purpose of this study was to apply the signal pattern recognition technique to the digital wireless fire-alarm system and to reduce unwanted fire alarms. In this study, the fire alarms of the K Institute, which operates the largest digital wireless fire-alarm system in Korea, were classified into normal operations and unwanted fire alarms, and these were analyzed and compared with actual fire signals. In addition, by designing a non-fire signal filter and applying it to the K Institute, we confirmed that the monthly unwanted fire alarm rate of all 5,713 detectors decreased sharply. In particular, the unwanted fire alarm rate for flame decreased from 1.09% to 0.11% and the unwanted fire alarm rate for smoke decreased from 0.65% to 0.035%.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.92-98
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• 2016

본 논문은 Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) 카메라를 이용한 열화상의 실시간 추정과 화재경보에 대하여 논한 것으로 각도 및 위치에 따른 특징점 분석과 동일 형상의 벡터 성분 좌표점 설정에 따른 이미지 융합이 잘 되었다. 영상을 Display하는 픽셀의 데이터 값은 0~255, 센서 출력값은 0~5,000로 하여 정확성이 높았다. 시험결과 시험체로부터 500 m, 1000 m, 1500 m 거리에서 화염에 의한 시험체의 작동시간은 각각 7초, 26초, 62초 소요 되었고 화면이미지 생성이 효과적으로 이루어졌다. 화재 발생 진단은 주의/경보/화재의 3단계로 프로그램하여 Alarm의 순차적 동작과 SNS 전송이 이루어졌다. 비화재보시험을 위해 백열등, 형광등에 대해 시험하였으나 모두 비화재보를 발생하지 않았다. 시간대별 화염의 변화영상과 진행방향 및 확산속도의 분석은 화재진행상황 예측이나 열화상 실시간 추정과 경보로 비화재보 감소가 가능함을 확인하였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집 기술교육전문연구회
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• pp.8-11
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• 2003

We propose that when combustible burn with contain carbon, introduce fire detector with sensor of private-use detectable light energy as infrared and ultraviolet in energy of electromagnetic-wave type radiate from flame, method for correct discrimination to resemble fire produce false alarm of detector such as sun light, hot object radiation, are welding. This research using infrared sensor is pyroelectric infrared sensor based black body radiation theory. Ultraviolet sensor is uv Tron using gas multiplication effect to current discharge and photoelectric effect of metal. To have high sensibility and to gain proper output voltage, it has high responsive performance. This research introduced UV/IR compound type flame detector and proposed method of false alarm reduced to resemble fire. The result propres the prevention and extinction of fire technique degree, certificated operation of detector.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.881-890
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• 2010

Conventional fire detection systems use physical sensors to detect fire. Chemical properties of particles in the air are acquired by sensors and are used by conventional fire detection systems to raise an alarm. However, this can also cause false alarms; for example, a person smoking in a room may trigger a typical fire alarm system. In order to manage false alarms of conventional fire detection systems, a computer vision-based fire detection algorithm is proposed in this paper. The proposed fire detection algorithm consists of two main parts: fire color modeling and motion detection. The algorithm can be used in parallel with conventional fire detection systems to reduce false alarms. It can also be deployed as a stand-alone system to detect fire by using video frames acquired through a video acquisition device. A novel fire color model is developed in CIE $L^*a^*b^*$ color space to identify fire pixels. The proposed fire color model is tested with ten diverse video sequences including different types of fire. The experimental results are quite encouraging in terms of correctly classifying fire pixels according to color information only. The overall fire detection system's performance is tested over a benchmark fire video database, and its performance is compared with the state-of-the-art fire detection method.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.479-485
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• 2011

비디오 기반 화염 감지 기법은 입력 비디오 영상에서 화염과 비슷한 색상을 가지고 움직임이 있는 영역에 대해서 화소 단위로 화염의 특성을 가지고 있는지를 시간적, 공간적 특징 분석을 통하여 확인한다. 비디오 기반 화염 감지 기법 연구의 가장 중요한 부분 중 하나는 화염 감지 성능이 저하되지 않고 어떻게 거짓 경보의 빈도를 줄일 수 있는가 하는 것이다. 기존의 방법들은 전기 장치로 만들어진 불빛들 중에서 자동차 전조등과 같은 일반적인 움직임을 가진 전기 불빛에 의한 거짓 경보는 쉽게 제거하고 있다. 그러나 경광등, 경고등 그리고 네온사인과 같이 깜빡거림이 있는 전기 불빛은 색상과 시간적, 공간적인 특징이 실제 화염과 비슷할 경우 거짓 경보를 발생시키는 요인이 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 경광등, 경고등 그리고 네온사인과 같이 깜빡거림이 있는 전기 불빛 화소들의 주기 신호 검출을 통하여 진짜 화염이 아님을 확인하는 거짓 경보 제거 기능을 갖춘 비디오 화염 감지 기법을 제안한다. 실험 결과 화재 감지 성능은 기존의 방법과 비슷하였으나 기존의 방법이 거짓 경보를 발생시키는 시험 비디오에서 거짓 경보가 발생되지 않음을 볼 수 있었다.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.39-44
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• 2011

Automatic fire alarm system is set up to automatically detect fire on buildings. Because of economic reasons, P-type receiver and a conventional type fire detector is normally used for automatic fire alarm system in Korea. Because early detection of fire is regarded as important, the need of finding technique of fire location increases. This paper is studied a method to improve a reliability and add a function of fire location detection on a conventional type fire detector and P-type receiver. Fire location is detected by a method that controller attached on the receiver and the detector is read with a time lag. A reliability of fire detection alarm system is improved with a method that false fire alarm is able to decrease using two different principle detector together. This paper is studied for basic data of improvement of low-cost addressable automatic fire alarm system.