Community outdoor fire defense
AssigneeWater-Dome Ltd.
InventorDavid Shavit
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Abstract
A system and methods are provided for community outdoor fire protection comprising: receiving indicators of a current fire, and responsively determining a level of the current fire risk for each of multiple endpoints of a shared water supply; determining a relative duty cycle for operating each endpoint according to a fire risk; receiving a water pressure measurement of the shared water source and determining a maximum number of concurrent endpoints to operate; accordingly allocating operation of each endpoint to a set of time slots; and activating the multiple endpoints to turn on respective water flows according to the time slot allocation.
Claims17
A computer-based method for community outdoor fire protection comprising:
- A) receiving indicators of a current fire, and responsively determining a level of a current fire risk for each of multiple endpoints, wherein each endpoint includes a water gun and an associated electrical water valve, wherein a predetermined minimum water pressure is specified for operation of each water gun, wherein each electrical water valve connects to a shared water source;
- B) according to the current fire risk of each endpoint, determining a relative duty cycle for operating each endpoint;
- C) receiving a water pressure measurement of the shared water source and, responsively to the water pressure measurement and to the predetermined minimum water pressure specified for each endpoint operation, determining a maximum number of concurrent endpoints to operate;
- D) according to the maximum number of operational endpoints and the relative duty cycles of each endpoint, allocating operation of each endpoint to time slots;
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- E) responsively operating the electrical water valve of each of the multiple endpoints according to its time slot allocation.
A system for community outdoor fire protection (COFD) comprising one or more processors having associated non-transient memory storage, wherein the memory storage includes instructions that when implemented by the one or more processors execute steps comprising:
- A) receiving indicators of a current fire, and responsively determining a level of a current fire risk for each of multiple endpoints, wherein each endpoint includes a water gun and an associated electrical water valve, wherein a predetermined minimum water pressure is specified for operation of each water gun, wherein each electrical water valve connects to a shared water source;
- B) according to the current fire risk of each endpoint, determining a relative duty cycle for operating each endpoint;
- C) receiving a water pressure measurement of the shared water source and, responsively to the water pressure measurement and to the predetermined minimum water pressure specified for each endpoint operation, determining a maximum number of concurrent endpoints to operate;
- D) according to the maximum number of operational endpoints and the relative duty cycles of each endpoint, allocating operation of each endpoint to time slots;
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- E) responsively operating the electrical water valve of each of the multiple endpoints according to its time slot allocation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.