Agent-based platform for monitoring the pressure status of fire extinguishers in a building

Abstract

Current European regulations require a minimum number of fire extinguishers in buildings according to the surface area of the building. The revision of fire extinguishers is a manual process that requires technicians to visit the place where they are located. This not only requires time and costs but also importantly the time period between the fire extinguisher no longer being in optimal condition, the review being performed and the problems detected. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a system to register the information on pressure of the extinguisher, transfer the information to a central database where it will be stored and display it on a web server. For this reason, this article presents a multi-agent system that allows you to monitor the status of fire extinguishers through the developed prototype, evaluate their status against other fire extinguishers, collect a history of status and environmental factors and send notifications if any parameter is not within the range of normal values. In addition, the system has learning techniques that allow you to predict changes in the state of the fire extinguisher so that the incident can be solved before it occurs, as well as evaluating the behaviour of users in a fire.