System and Method of Automatic Hose Bay Jam Prevention

A method of preventing jamming of at least one fire hose laid in a hose bay of a fire truck, the fire truck having a pump operable to pump water to charge the fire hose, a hose coupling connecting the at least one fire hose to an outlet of the pump, and a control valve operable to open or shut water flow from the outlet of the pump to the at least one fire hose, comprising:

• receiving input to open the control valve;
• receiving sensed data from a proximity sensor coupled to the hose bay and a target device coupled to the at least one fire hose, the proximity sensor operable to detect the presence and absence of the target device;
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• enabling the opening of the control valve in response to the proximity sensor detecting the absence of the target device indicative of a substantially complete removal of the at least one fire hose from the hose bay of the fire truck.

A memory having encoded therein computer software code executable by a computer to implement a method of preventing jamming of at least one fire hose laid in a hose bay of a fire truck, a hose coupling connecting the at least one fire hose to an outlet of a pump, and a control valve operable to open or shut water flow from the outlet of the pump to the at least one fire hose, the computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving input to open the control valve;
• receiving sensed data from a proximity sensor coupled to the hose bay and a target device coupled to the at least one fire hose, the proximity sensor operable to detect the presence and absence of the target device;
• and
• enabling the opening of the control valve in response to the proximity sensor detecting the absence of the target device indicative of a substantially complete removal of the at least one fire hose from the hose bay of the fire truck.