A cloud-based fire safety system for emergency responders and civic community

Abstract

The main goal of this research is to identify, demonstrate, and provide a secure approach to homeowners in creating fire-safety checklists and pre-incident plans of their homes, and uploading them through a secure cloud service to the centralized fire safety cloud-based system, ALIKE, which in turn provides updated and scalable views of the home interiors for their local fire departments. ALIKE is a cloud-based system that integrates 3D scans, AI, image recognition, and augmented reality to help homeowners improve the safety of their homes and conduct pre-incident planning with the local fire department. The ALIKE system provides for two modal approaches: the homeowner system approach and the firefighter system approach. Watson AI functionality within ALIKE system can identify potential fire safety issue in the home, examine the issue and recommend fire safe products to mitigate the potential hazard. Thus, the cause of residential fires would be reduced to a great extent, providing safer homes for residents.