DETECT FIRE AT ITS SOURCE

Protecting Lives Safeguarding Property

Camera-based fire detection usually referred to as FireVU or video smoke and flame detection is now firmly established worldwide as making a major contribution towards improved fire safety. It is used extensively in areas that traditionally have been the most challenging for fire safety professionals (such as lofty voluminous areas) to provide the earliest possible detection of smoke.

FireVU ensures fast detection of smoke at its source, with the incident visible on a monitor, enabling appropriate action to be taken in the shortest possible time. The technology, which has been developed and proven over many years, utilises standard CCTV cameras (often existing CCTV security installations) and is an extremely cost-effective solution. Now, with the introduction of the latest advance in FireVU technology, installations can be remotely monitored for a potential fire to provide 24-hour-a-day fast response, as well as offering remote testing and diagnosis of the installation, and easier integration with security and facilities management systems.

How FireVU Works

The uniqueness of FireVU is its intelligence - the ability to accurately detect smoke and flame patterns and differentiate between them and other movement's patterns. It does this by using computer analysis of video images provided by standard CCTV cameras. Note: Not all camera types are compatible.
FireVU automatically identifies the particular motion pattern of smoke and alerts the system operator to its presence in the shortest possible time, using advanced image-processing technology and extensive detection and know false-alarm phenomena algorithms.

The system rapidly detects smoke by seeking small areas of change within an image. These are passed through a series of filters that seek the particular characteristics that are known to be associated with smoke behaviour.

FireVU can simultaneously process video information from a number of CCTV cameras. Its real-time digitising of all the images ensures that no information is lost; all alarm condition images are logged, time and date-stamped, and stored in the systems memory.

Remote Monitoring

FireVU utilises the latest secure TCP/IP communications technology, enabling the alarm, including the video images to be distributed to an unlimited nember of remote devices, including Remote Video receiving Centres (RVRC) anywhere in the world.
All of the alarm events are recorded, so pre-and post-event analysis can be carried out to assist in the identification of any changes that need to be made to the fire safety plan, as the analysis shows what, or who, caused the incident FireVU can also be integrated with other safety and security systems, enabling greater use of existing fire equipment by including smoke and flame detection.

The Overwhelming Case For FireVU

• Fast detection of the early stages of a fire, by detecting smoke at its source.
  
• Detection of all types of visible smoke.
  
• Accurate visual location of a fire.
  
• Less affected by high airflows that could take smoke away from conventional detectors.
  
• Visual alarm verification for the elimination of false alarms.
  
• Substantial cost-saving by using existing or shared CCTV installations.
  
• Ideal for remote detection in hazardous or toxic areas.
  
• Remote monitoring for a 24-hour-a-day fast response, remote testing and diagnostics, easier set-up and easier maintenance.

Applications

Today, FireVU installations are safeguarding on and offshore oil and gas installations, civil and military aircraft hangers, power stations, turbine halls, rain facilities and road tunnels, and buildings that have atria or other areas that are otherwise difficult or impossible to protect.
Ongoing Commitment
AFE customers and partners have fast around-the-clock access to highly-trained FireVU engineers in the company's customer support division. This ensures that every installation is maintained to the highest standards of readiness and performance.

Key Features

• Colour smoke overlay for Fast Visual confirmation.
  
• 16 customisable zones per camera.
  
• 16 Relay Outputs.
  
• 16 Alarm inputs, N/O or N/C contacts.
  
• HTML control and setup pages.
  
• Pre and Post-alarm event recording.
  
• Alarm and FireVU events can be protected on disk.
  
• Standard or variable record rate for each camera.
  
• Variable playback speeds.
  
• Digital watermarking of MJPEG images with certificate creation using the MD5 algorithm.
  
• Video expiry period to comply with data regulations.
  
• Configurable for central monitoring applications.
  
• SMS and email reporting of events.
  
• Full security with multiply passwords
  
• Dial-on-alarm sends images to remote units via ISDN, PTSN, or Ethernet.
  
• 10/00 BaseT LAN network interface with full/half duplex support and auto DHCP/DNS on capable networks.
  
• Bandwidth limitation option avoids network congestion.
  
• Front panel display indicates IP address and fault messages.
  
• LED displays Alarm and Fault.
  
• Software firewall allows users to restrict access
  
• Security log files record all connections and illegal file access.