Active oxygen management, fire encirclement, and operational verification system

A method of providing oxygen management, fire encirclement, and fire door testing, comprising the steps of:

• providing a plurality of programmable door controllers, each having at least one sensor for detecting predetermined conditions of an associated one of a plurality of doors in a building, the programmable door controllers being interconnected on a network enabling each of the programmable door controllers to communicate with one another;
• receiving a signal from a specific one of the programmable door controllers from the at least one sensor indicating an abnormal condition with the associated one of the plurality of doors;
• executing an instruction set in the specific one of the programmable door controllers to issue commands to other specific ones of the programmable door controllers, the associated doors of which form a closed ring, the commands instructing the doors forming a closed ring to close;
• determining whether or not the closed ring has been successfully formed, and
• if the closed ring has not been successfully formed, executing another instruction set to different specific ones of the programmable door controllers, the associated doors of which form an extended closed ring, thereby managing an amount of oxygen in the closed ring or extended closed ring.

A method of providing oxygen management, fire encirclement, and fire door testing, comprising the steps of:

• providing a plurality of programmable door controllers and at least one sensor for each of two or more doors in a building, the sensors for detecting predetermined conditions of the doors, each of the programmable door controllers being interconnected on a network enabling the programmable door controllers to communicate with one another;
• receiving a signal at a specific one of the programmable door controllers from the at least one sensor indicating an abnormal condition with one of the two or more associated doors;
• executing an instruction set in the specific one of the programmable door controllers to issue commands to other specific ones of the programmable door controllers, the associated doors of which form a closed ring, the commands instructing the doors forming a closed ring to close;
• determining whether or not the closed ring has been successfully formed;
• and
• if the closed ring has not been successfully formed, executing another instruction set to different specific ones of the programmable door controllers, the associated doors of which form and extended closed ring and sending a message indicating whether or not a closed O2 management ring has been formed and displaying that message to warn firefighters whether or not a particular door that is a part of O2 management ring has in fact been closed or is part of the closed ring.

A fire control and testing system for networked doors, comprising:

• a building equipped with two or more networked doors enclosing interior spaces, and separating the interior spaces from each other;
• a plurality of programmable door controllers and at least one sensor associated with each of the doors, each of the programmable door controllers for issuing operations instructions and/or test commands for testing a closing an associated door, and the at least one sensor monitoring a predetermined condition associated with the associated door,
• each one of the programmable door controllers for receiving an input from at least one sensor from the associated door, and containing instructions for communicating messages to at least one output device if the predetermined condition is determined to be an abnormal condition,
• wherein if the abnormal condition is sensed by a program of a specific one of the programmable door controllers, the specific programmable door controller will display a predetermined message associated with the abnormal condition on the at least one output device, and
• the specific programmable door controller associated with a first one of the doors executes a predetermined set of instructions causing a command to be communicated to another programmable door controller associated with a second one of the doors, which causes the another programmable door controller associated with the second door to execute a predetermined instruction set effecting the second door.