Fire Extinguishing System Using LabView
Fire Extinguishing System Using LabView
Volume 3, Issue 5, May – 2018 International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology
ISSN No:-2456-2165
Fire Extinguishing System using LabView
Dr. Ravikumar A V, Bhoomika G, Chaitra R, Lekhana H
Department of Electronics and Communication
SJB Institute of Technology Bengaluru
Abstract:- As we know today a lot of fire accidents are B. Drawback of Existing System
occurring around us and there is a huge loss of lives due Since the current Indian railway systems doesn’t have
to these fire accidents. Therefore we have developed a a fire rescue monitoring system in the train it is very
solution to this problem by using sensors and embedded difficult to monitor the fire in the compartment and prevent
system software. With the help of these sensors we will the spread of the fire to other compartments and also the
be able to detect if the fire has occurred and the required separation of the two compartments is done manually, which
extinguishing action will be taken accordingly. The is not at all a better way as it is time consuming and in
extinguishing action consists of alerting the passengers in situation where fire accidents occur each and every minute
the train about the accordance of fire with the help of a becomes important, hence it is difficult to obtain a fast
buzzer and a exhaust fan is switched on. The next action response to the problem in currently existing system.
would be sprinkling of water all around the
compartment in order to reduce the flames. The further C. Proposed system
action includes compartment separation so that the fire In our proposed model whenever there is an outbreak
would not spread to any other compartments. By all of the fire it can be easily monitored with the help of data
these measures the fire accidents will be reduced and from the sensors in the compartment where necessary
also the loss of lives and property would be minimized. actions will take place accordingly and also the separation
between two compartments takes place mechanically and is
Keywords: - Compartment seperator , Fire sensor, LabView, automated which in turn becomes a fast response to
myRIO , Smoke sensor. situations where fire accidents occur and hence reduce the
spread of fire to other compartments.
I. INTRODUCTION
D. Abbreviations and Acronyms
In a highly populated developing country like India, LAB (Laboratory)
train journey is most preferred by most of the people VIEW (Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench)
because it is economical, comfortable and large number of
people can travel large distances. The precautionary
III. METHODOLOGY
messages and warnings given by the Indian railways are not
strictly implemented and hence it gives rise to fire accidents
and there is a huge loss of lives as well as loss of private and In the proposed model, whenever there is an outbreak
government property due to these accidents. Hence strict of fire, it can immediately be detected with the help of
and fast measures must be taken in order to reduce such smoke and fire sensors which are present in the
accidents. This can be achieved by implementing an compartment of the train. Here we are using 2 sensors in the
automatic monitoring, controlling and extinguishing system compartment. The fire sensors are addressable and by Using
in the compartments of the trains which includes a buzzer, Lab View we are able to read the inputs from the fire and
fan, compartment separator and water sprinkler so that the smoke sensors. The train loco pilot can monitor the status of
fire accidents will be reduced. We have used My Rio fire in each compartment. We are defining two levels of fire,
hardware and LAB VIEW software to implement this. This whenever the fire is in initial stage, the input from the
system will automatically monitor the sensors in every temperature sensor will be read if that temperature is greater
compartment. The data from these sensors will be taken and than the first prefixed temperature it is as shown in the table
compared with the preset values to check if there is an below in Table 1
emergency and necessary actions will take place accordingly
thereby reducing the effect of fire accidents.
II. LITERATURE SURVEY
A. Existing System
The current day Indian railway systems doesn’t have a
fire rescue monitoring system in the train which is very
necessary in case of outbreak of fire and also the separation
of the two compartments is done manually by people which
is time consuming in case of emergencies and without the
separation of compartments it’s very difficult to help Table 1. Status of fire
spreading of fire.
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A. Hardware Implementation B. Software Implementation
We have installed temperature and smoke sensors in The Software which we have used here is the NI Lab
the compartment. LM35 and MQ-2 have been used for this View. It is a graphical programming language designed by
purpose .The data from these sensors are read through National Instrumentations where we can use a graphical
myRIO by using the Lab View Software. Here myRIO is the design approach to design prototype and embedded systems.
heart of the proposed system and it is the hardware used. It The reasons for choosing LAB VIEW is that since it’s a
can connect to the wireless network easily which helps in fast graphical programming language designing of the block
response and also the range of connectivity is more hence it diagram is easy and no need to write lines of code and waste
has been used for this purpose. The implementation of the time on the compilation it’s easy to implement a block
sensors inside the compartment can be seen in Fig 1 and Fig diagram instead as in case of this software. The software
2 below. The front view of the proposed system can be seen implementation is as follows, the myRIO continuously
in Fig 3. monitors the sensors and the data from the sensor is sent to it
where the value of sensor is compared with the different
conditions implemented in the software and necessary
actions are taken place according to it. The flowchart
showing the software implementation is shown in Fig 2
below.
Fig 1:- Smoke sensors installed inside the compartment
Fig 2:- Temperature Sensors installed inside the compartment
Fig 4: - Flow chart of Software Implementation
We are defining two levels of fire, whenever the
fire is in initial stage, the input from the temperature sensor
will be read if that temperature is greater than the first
prefixed temperature i.e. Temperature > 37 (C), then a small
alarm will be given in the compartment as well as a fan will
be turned on which will help in extinguishing the fire. If the
fire is huge i.e. if the input from the fire sensor is greater
than the second prefixed temperature i.e. Temperature > 40
(C), then the above actions along with water sprinkler is
Fig 3:- Front view of Proposed System activated and the compartment separation takes place
through a mechanical action thereby reducing the further
spread of fire to other compartment
The further working of system will be explained in the
Software implementation.
IV. RESULTS
The automated fire rescuing system is capable of
detecting fire and extinguishing the fire source successfully.
The myRIO controls the alarm, water sprinkler and DC
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motor for taking necessary actions during emergency. It can
detect fire during emergency conditions and is better suited
for extinguishing fire inside a Train.
V. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We are very thankful for giving us an opportunity to
carry out our work under the guidance of Dr. Ravi Kumar
A.V. His encouragement has helped us to learn and grow in a
truly efficient manner. We are really grateful to him for
spending his valuable time in helping us to accomplish this
work. We express our sincere gratitude to our institute SJB
Institute of Technology, Bengaluru.
VI. CONCLUSION
This proposed system is based on wireless network
technology. This will be useful for reducing the accidents by
detecting fire at initial stage itself, alarming the passengers,
alerting the loco pilot to take immediate actions in order to
avoid spreading of fire. Hence the system is more secured.
Fire on a running train is dangerous since wind helps spread
the fire to other coaches thus by implementing the above we
provide a solution for fire accident.
VII. FUTURE WORK
More number of sensors can be mounted on the
compartment in order to achieve a better performance and
we can also reduce the reaction time detecting the fire
source. myRIO is expensive any other hardware which is
less expensive and provides the same range of wireless
connection can be used. IR sensors can be mounted in the
compartment which can help in keeping a count of number
of people who are present in compartment which can help in
rescue operation during fire accidents.
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