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Fire Technology, 50, 805822, 2014 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Manufactured in The United States
DOI: 10.1007/s10694-012-0299-0
Seung-Wook Jee*, Chun-Ha Lee and Si-Kuk Kim, Department of Fire &Disaster Protection Engineering, Hoseo University, Asan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, Koreae-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
Jae-Jin Lee and Phil-Young Kim, TST Co., Gunpo si, Gyeonggi-doKoreae-mail: [email protected]
Received: 24 January 2012/Accepted: 12 September 2012
Abstract. Many countries use conventional re alarm control panels (FACPs) and conventional detectors as re alarm systems (FASs) because of economic advantages. This study analyzes several problems with conventional FASs and describes an advanced FAS, the traceable FAS, that we developed to solve these problems. The traceable FAS can trace the exact location of a re, can detect multiple res that occur simultaneously, and can be used with conventional detectors without disrupting the other detectors operation. The traceable FAS consists of a traceable FACP based on the conventional FACP and a traceable heat detector based on the rate-of-rise spot-type conventional heat detector. The new system oers traceability in addition to all the features of the conventional FAS. The traceable FACP has 40 zones; one zone can connect up to 20 traceable heat detectors. Thus, this FACP can connect up to 800 traceable heat detectors, all of which can detect and trace exact re locations in sequence. Furthermore, the traceable FACP can be used with both traceable heat detectors and conventional heat detectors in the same zone. Even if one detector (either traceable heat detector or conventional heat detector) detects a re rst, other traceable heat detectors in the same zone can also detect it and display the results on the traceable FACP. Prototypes of the traceable FACP and traceable heat detector (rate-of-rise spot-type) have ocially received model approvals for use in South Korea. Conventional FASs can be upgraded to traceable FASs simply by changing to the traceable FACP and traceable heat detectors, without any rewiring.
Keywords: Fire alarm system, Fire alarm control panel, Heat detector, Conventional re alarm system, Traceable re alarm system
* Correspondence should be addressed to: Seung-Wook Jee, E-mail: [email protected]
Development of a Traceable Fire Alarm System Based on the Conventional Fire Alarm System
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1. Introduction
High-rise and large-scale complex buildings have multiple alarm systems to warn against various disasters. The re...