Applying Wireless Sensor Networks in Fire Fighting

Chunlei An; Andreas Timm-Giel

Smart Objects

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Applying Wireless Sensor Networks in Fire Fighting

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-30422-4_28,
    author={Chunlei An and Andreas Timm-Giel},
    title={Applying Wireless Sensor Networks in Fire Fighting},
    proceedings={Smart Objects},
    proceedings_a={SMART},
    year={2012},
    month={9},
    keywords={Wireless Sensor Networks Fire Fighting},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-30422-4_28}
}

Chunlei An
Andreas Timm-Giel
Year: 2012
Applying Wireless Sensor Networks in Fire Fighting
SMART
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30422-4_28

Chunlei An¹^,*, Andreas Timm-Giel¹^,*

1: Hamburg University of Technology

*Contact email: chunlei.an@tuhh.de, timm-giel@tuhh.de

Abstract

Fire fighters often work in dangerous environments, therefore protection is essential. Nowadays fire fighters are equipped with different types of devices, each of which supplies a specific functionality. This paper studies the possibility of integrating some of these functionalities into one intelligent glove, which has a build-in sensor node. Merging different functionalities into one device will reduce the number of equipments that a fire fighter must carry. The concept of networking the intelligent gloves using Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is validated by doing application requirements analysis, transmission range experiments, and performance evaluations of a dedicated routing protocol. Results show that the IEEE 802.15.4 based WSN can be applied in fire fighting scenarios.

Keywords: Wireless Sensor Networks Fire Fighting

Published: 2012-09-14

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30422-4_28