Prototype Early Warning Fire Detection System: Test Series 1 Results

Abstract

This report documents the results of the Early Warning Fire Detection (EWFD) prototype Series I tests conducted on the ex-USS Shadwell over the period of February 7-18, 2000. Four EWFD prototypes were successfully integrated with a data acquisition system to operate in real time using a probabilistic neural network (PNN) and provided appropriate alarms in real time. Two prototypes were evaluated consisting of different sets of sensors and a PNN based on previous work in this program. EWFD prototype 2 demonstrated slightly better performance than EWFD prototype I and faster response times than the Simplex COTS smoke detection system. Even EWFD prototype 1 demonstrated on average faster response times than the Simplex detectors.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 18, 2000
Accession Number
ADA382542

Entities

People

  • Daniel T. Gottuk
  • Jennifer T. Wong
  • Mark T. Wright
  • Sean Hart
  • Susan L. Rose-Pehrsson

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Carbon Monoxide
  • Carbon Monoxide Indicators
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Data Acquisition
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Dielectric Gases
  • Fire Detectors
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Science
  • Measurement
  • Neural Networks
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Safety
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Fire Suppression Systems Design.
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML