A Conceptual Design of a Vision-Based Fire Fighting Robot for Smart City Application

Abstract

In the world today, fire incidence has been a frequent occurrence, this has caused the loss of many lives. Also, valuable properties, public utilities, and facilities have been destroyed. The study conceptualized a proposed design of an intelligent vision based robot for curbing the menace caused by fire outbreaks. The proposed design entails consistent remote interaction between a robot and sensor nodes. The robot node denotes the firefighting robot situated in the fire station. In its idle state, it operates in a passive node, by listening to the incoming beacons from the sensor nodes. The sensor nodes installed on designated sites consists of flame, wireless sensors with a mini-controller. Whenever the robot receives a distress alert from any of the sensor nodes, it automatically switches to an active mode and simultaneously navigates to the location in distress. The activity of the firefighting robot can be remotely monitored and controlled in real-time by a human operator via android-based application. However, modifications have been proposed, based on the identified flaws of existing systems. Successful implementation of this design will provide a reliable and efficient means of monitoring multiple sites in real-time and also ensure environmental safety.