US 2024/0384871 A1 · CHIMNEY SENSING AND FIRE SAFETY

Abstract

The following relates generally to improving chimney safety through monitoring and detection of overheat conditions or animal intrusion that may damage a chimney or result in uncontrolled fire spreading outside the chimney. To improve chimney safety, a system may use temperature levels, sound signals, and/or imagery data to determine an overheat condition in a chimney. Upon determination of an overheat condition, the system may send an alert to a mobile device of a user or take other action (e.g., shutting off gas to a firebox, alerting the fire department, etc.). Similarly, sound signals and/or imagery data may be used to determine the presence of: (i) animals within or near the chimney, and/or (ii) water in the chimney box (e.g., water on a wall of the chimney box, or dripping to the bottom of the chimney box).

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Dependent claims

A chimney safety system, the chimney safety system comprising:

at least one temperature sensor configured to measure temperature associated with a portion of a chimney;
and
one or more processors configured to:
determine a temperature based upon a temperature signal received from the at least one temperature sensor;
and
determine that a chimney overheat condition exists based upon the determined temperature.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Chimney sensing and fire safety

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Abstract

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