Systems and methods for automated early fire-outbreak and arson-attack detection and elimination in wood-framed and mass timber buildings

An early building fire-outbreak/arson-attack detection and elimination system comprising:

• (i) wireless pass infra-red (PIR) or active infra-red (AIR) thermal imaging fire outbreak and arson-attack sensor network,
• (ii) VR-guided fire fighting robot systems, and
• (iii) flying unmanned thermal imaging drone aircraft systems with video image capturing capabilities to monitor a building under fire,
• wherein all such subsystems being integrated with and in communication with the data center and internet (TCP/IP) infrastructure of the building intelligence collection, processing and information management system of the present invention, and are tracked in real-time using a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) with real-time kinematic referencing for high-resolution global positioning.

A method of defending wood-framed and mass timber buildings under construction comprising the steps of:

• (a) installing a wireless thermal imaging fire outbreak sensor network in said wood-framed or mass timber building, and deploying roaming thermal-imaging fire seeking robots, to detect and locate a fire outbreak or arson attack in said wood-framed building under construction;
• (b) in response to automated detection of fire outbreak or arson attack by said wireless fire outbreak sensor network or roaming thermal imaging fire seeking robots, automatically generating a fire suppression command to an AI-guided or VR-guided thermal-imaging fire seeking and suppressing robots and drone vehicles;
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• (c) sending fire surveillance command to thermally-imaging drone aircraft so that thermal images the wood-framed building are automatically captured and this collected intelligence of thermal maps of the wood-frame building are provided to local fire department and chief called to the scene of the fire, to assist in real-time decision support on how best to respond to the particular building fire at hand.