The objective of the NSF-supported FireDB project is to develop a prototype system consisting of a building-specific fire simulation database and real-time sensor queries to aid fire fighting efforts in building fires. The database is constructed by using building fire field models based on computational fluid dynamics theory and zone models as appropriate. The result of this work will be a system whereby manual fire suppression activities will be optimized by an interaction with a building's thermal sensing system through the use of computer database and visualization technology. It is one component of "smart building" technology, an innovative concept in which future buildings will have integrated sensing and monitoring systems with extensive knowledge bases to allow automatic or semi-automatic problem solving and performance optimization capabilities.
The following flow diagram gives an understanding of the system.
