Citation

Lee W, Cheon M, Hyun CH, Park M. Fire Safety J. 2013; 58: 65-73.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.firesaf.2013.01.003

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

High-rise residential buildings and their fire safety systems have long been individually designed and constructed according to individual construction plans, rather than planned and efficiently integrated systems. These separate and diverse safety systems have led to elevation of operational training and additional administrative personnel requirements for security firms. Also, alerting other operators of safety events often requires numerous intercom calls. Thus, we propose a new fire safety system to reduce the rates of the false alarms and simultaneously to fight fires using all available operators throughout various departments. This approach is possible because we provide a single command for easily changing the sensor activity values for regular sensor tests and distribute fire messages via LCDs and alarms. This method can eliminate the need for monitoring and intercoms. As a result of the new system, the reaction time to fire emergencies was decreased by 63% compared with systems using existing building automation devices.