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外文文献及译文
文献、资料题目: INTELLIGENT BUILDING ALARM
文献、资料来源: 网络
文献、资料发表(出版)日期:2012,2 院 (部): 信息与电气工程学院 专 业: 电气工程与自动化 班 级: 电气084 姓 名: 邓红坤 学 号: 2008121017 指导教师: 王克河
翻译日期: 2012、2、29
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外文文献:
INTELLIGENT BUILDING ALARM
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to an intelligent alarm system for 5 detecting hazardous situations in a building informing building occupants of optimal escape routes or survival strategies and assisting emergency personnel in rescuing people inside the building. Building hazards, including fire, earthquakes, intruders, etc., have the potential for
large numbers of casualties. Effective building alarm systems must have the capability to process a plurality of input types to determine the nature of the situation involving danger to persons in the building. The building alarm system must also have more than simple audio/visual outputs for helping people in the building find safe escape routes. Use of the term building in this invention refers to any structure including, but not limited to, office buildings, commercial buildings, factory/warehouses, residential homes, etc. Aspects of building alarm systems are described 20 in, U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,686,434; 4,511,886; 3,634,846; 4,614, 968; 4,775,853; 5,267,180; 5,281,951, each of which is incorporated herein by reference.
Detection of hazards that may exist in a building is crucial in the proper functioning of an intelligent building alarm system. Current sensor technology allows for the accurate monitoring of many building parameters including, but not limited to, carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons, temperature, vibration, etc. Accurate sensor readings using sophisticated sensor technology can minimize the occurrence of costly false alarms.
"Expert systems" are becoming more extensively used as a problem solving tool. An intelligent building alarm can benefit from the use of
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expert system concepts. Many different possibilities for hazards, and dealing with them, must be analyzed to adequately alert persons in a building of dangerous situations. Expert systems are designed to make use of pooled knowledge resources from a group of experienced persons having with considerable experience in 40 diverse fields relating to emergency situations including, but not limited to, fire fighting, toxic fume detection, earthquake physics, human tolerance to hazards, medical problems, etc.
"Fuzzy logic\logic system that is a superset of Boolean logic. Since the world is primarily analog in nature, 45 many situations cannot be adequately modeled using simple Boolean true/not true logic. Simply concluding that an event, element, or condition is either \" or is not \seldom adequate in making a complex decision. For example, the temperature in one room of a building during a fire in the building cannot simply be distinguished as a danger or not a danger. Other factors, such as gas concentration, smoke occurrence and density, flames, etc., also limit an analysis of possible danger when simply considered as, for instance, high danger or not high danger. Fuzzy logic helps model problems involving humanistic issues by allowing membership in more than one set and allowing a membership transition band from one set to another set.
A preferred alarm system will have the capability of transferring and processing data from one, more than one or many input devices. Current information networking technology provides for low cost and standardized hardware and software systems with the performance capacity to handle many input and/or output connections. Awire or cable based communications system will be used to facilitate communications within a single buildingor, also a possibility within a cluster of buildings. Alternatively, radio communications can be used for a b
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uilding alarm system, avoiding a failure or miscommunication due to damage to cables in a hardwired alarm system. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides for assisting people at risk, including emergency personnel, involved in dangerous situations such as those created by fires in buildings, earthquakes affecting a building, building collapse, toxic fumes in a building, presence of air borne bacteria in the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system (HVAC), terrorist attacks, or any other dangers that may exist in a building, boat, plane, train, or other structure. Sensor units are located in a plurality of locations throughout a structure to provide adequate sensor input and output coverage for the structure. The sensor unit or plurality of sensor units are activated to sample a variety of environmental factors. The sensor output signals broadcast to a central point monitored by software and/or emergency personnel. Collected information includes; localized temperature, smoke levels in the structure, toxic gas levels, critically significant sounds (including speech), optical information, location position of hazards and sensor units, and other types of useful information. Expert system software, running on a computing device or CPU, processes the source collected data to assist the emergency personnel in determining the best plan of action and implementation of the plan for the safety of persons in the building. Sensor units are attached to walls, ceilings, cabinets, and other locations appropriate for sensor coverage of a particular area. The sensor unit is equipped with the necessary transducers to allow for the detection of temperature, smoke levels, toxic chemical levels, and the like in a particular area of a building. Some of the sensors will be common to all applications, but some will be application specific. For example, all applications will have a sensor for detecting temperature
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but some may contain transducers for the detection of gasoline or other combustible hydrocarbons at a refinery that would not be necessary at other buildings where these flammable gases are not present.
The sensor unit may also contain an analog or digital camera. The camera constantly monitors the vicinity of the camera for data useful to emergency personnel. Computer vision algorithms are employed to make determinations of the type of hazards existing in the camera's vicinity or help determine the presence or absence of people in view of the camera. A camera responding to other non-visible wavelengths of light, such as infrared, can help determine the type and location of flames, hot spots, people, etc.
The sensor unit may also contain a microphone for audio input. In some hazardous conditions, audio cues may be of great benefit for emergency personnel in determining the type and location of certain types of hazards. For example, if one or more people have taken control of the building through the use of firearms, the location of assailants can be determined through sounds and noises produced by the attackers. Multiple sensor units pick up a sound, possibly a gunshot, at different locations and can, through the use of signal processing algorithms, determine the location of the firearm.
A microphone may also \pickup\uman speech to be processed by speech recognition algorithms. Speech recognition algorithms having a speaker independent capability, allow voices to be recognized without prior speech recognition input training. For a limited vocabulary system, a speaker independent speech recognition is realizable with currently available technology. Building residents and visitors can be trained on the speech recognition system, to obtain a working knowledge of the words known by the speech recognition component of the intelligent building alarm system in that building.
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