SYSTEM ANALYSIS FOR FIRE PROTECTION PLANNING : Part 2. Simulation of fire protection on a high story apartment house.

CFES--The California Fire Economics Simulator: A Computerized System for Wildland Fire Protection Planning

The University of California's Department of Forestry and Resource Management, under contract with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, has developed and released the first version of the California Fire Economics Simulator (CFES). The current release is adapted from the Initial Action Assessment component of the USFS's National Fire Management Analysis System and features...

Microcontroller Based Fire Protection System

Realization of microcontroller based real time fire protection system is considered and described in the paper. Given solution is based on application of microcontroller AT89S8253. The system is consisted of set of sensors connected to control device (microcontroller module). Control, monitoring and diagnostic are performed via computer of PC type serially connected with control device. Charact...

SIL Rating Fire Protection Equipment

SIL's (Safety Integrity Levels) are used by IEC 61508:1998 [1] to characterise the required functional safety of computer control systems. For example, SIL 4, the highest rating is for fly by wire aircraft and weapons systems and track circuited train signalling systems while SIL 2 is typical of certain Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC). Fire control panels have not been SIL rated to date ev...

Simulation to Assess Plumbing and Fire Protection Innovations

House fire injury prevention update. Part I. A review of risk factors for fatal and non-fatal house fire injury.

OBJECTIVE To summarize house fire injury risk factor data, using relative risk estimation as a uniform method of comparison. METHODS Residential fire risk factor studies were identified as follows: MEDLINE (1983 to March 1997) was searched using the keywords fire*/burn*, with etiology/cause*, prevention, epidemiology, and smoke detector* or alarm*. ERIC (1966 to March 1997) and PSYCLIT (1974 ...