HelpResponder—System for the Security of First Responder Interventions
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2021-04-08
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Firefighter’s interventions under dense smoke and flames are hazardous and ideally need
an efficient in-advance geo-located actuation plan. The existing communication and sensing technologies
should be customized, optimized, and integrated to better know the conditions (flame
locations, air condition) before and during the rescue team’s interventions. In this paper, we propose
a firefighter intervention architecture, which consists of several sensing devices (flame detectors,
carbon dioxide air content) a navigation platform (an autonomous ground wheeled robot), and a
communication/localization network (BLE IoT network) that can be used before and during an intervention
in rescue or fire extinguishing missions even for indoor or confined spaces. The paper’s key
novelty presents our integrated solution, giving some key implementation details and an intensive
experimentation campaign in two real firefighter scenarios with real controlled fires. Results carried
out in these real indoor scenarios are presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the system. A fire
detection system is proposed to improve fire focus in real time and moving in confined spaces with
no visibility and physical references. The results obtained in the experimentation show the proposal’s
effectiveness in locating the fire focus’s position and orientation reducing time and risk exposure.
This kind of location-aware fire integrated systems would significantly impact the speed and security
of first responder interventions.
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Rodriguez-Sanchez MC, Fernández-Jiménez L, Jiménez AR, Vaquero J, Borromeo S, Lázaro-Galilea JL. HelpResponder—System for the Security of First Responder Interventions. Sensors. 2021; 21(8):2614. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21082614
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