# US 2019/0168036 A1 · Systems and methods for automated early fire-outbreak and arson-attack detection and elimination in wood-framed and mass timber buildings

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- Number: US 2019/0168036 A1
- Document ID: US20190168036A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 16/041,850
- Filed: 2018-07-23
- Published: 2019-06-06
- Earliest claimed: 2017-12-02
- Assignees: M-Fire Suppression, Inc.
- Applicants: M-Fire Suppression, Inc.
- Inventors: Stephen Conboy
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20190168036A1

## CPC

- A62C 3/0242: {by spraying extinguishants from the aircraft (spraying from aircraft in general B64D1/16)}
- A62C 27/00: Fire-fighting land vehicles
- A62C 29/00: Fire-fighting vessels or like floating structures
- A62C 37/00: Control of fire-fighting equipment (heat-sensitive devices G01K)
- G08B 13/1965: {the vehicle being an aircraft}
- G08B 17/06: Electric actuation of the alarm, e.g. using a thermally-operated switch
- G08B 17/125: {by using a video camera to detect fire or smoke}
- G08B 25/10: using wireless transmission systems {(G08B25/009 takes precedence)}
- H04L 67/12: specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
- B64U 2101/30: for imaging, photography or videography
- B64U 2101/47: for fire fighting
- H04L 69/16: Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
- A62C: FIRE-FIGHTING (fire-extinguishing compositions, use of chemical substances in extinguishing fires A62D1/00; spraying, applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces in general B05; alarm arrangements G08B, e.g. fire alarms actuated by smoke or gases G08B17/10)
- G08B: SIGNALLING SYSTEMS, e.g. PERSONAL CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)
- B64U: UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES [UAV]; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR

## Abstract

A method of and system for helping building construction team members in significant ways: (i) quickly detect high-risk fire outbreaks and arson strikes to a wood-framed and mass timber buildings under construction; (ii) receiving automatic notifications when fire outbreaks and arson strikes are detected at GPS-specific regions in a building under construction, and (iii) automatically and quickly responding to the detected fire outbreak and/or arson strike using AI-guided and/or VR-guided thermal-imaging flying drones, and AI/guided and/or VR-guided thermally-imaging fire seeking and suppressing robots and drone systems which eliminate these fire outbreaks by directly controlled spray streams of clean anti-fire (AF) liquid on the fire, using only ¼ of the water required using conventional fire extinguishing methods.

## Claims

### Claim at position 1

1-4. (canceled)

### Claim 5

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.

### Claim at position 3

6-8. (canceled)

### Claim 9

An early warning fire response system for installation in a wood-framed or mass-timber building under construction, comprising:
a network of passive infra-red (PIR) thermal imaging fire outbreak sensors network installed in said wood-framed or mass timber building, which triggers the takeoff of a thermal imaging drone aircraft to capture real-time aerial IR imaging of a fire detected in said wood-framed or mass timber building, so as to inform fire chiefs in determining how best to respond to a fire burning within said wood-framed or mass timber building under construction.

### Claim at position 5

10-11. (canceled)

### Claim 12

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; and
(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.