Internet of Robotic Things Based Autonomous Fire Fighting Mobile Robot

Abstract

Fire accident at the industries would cause heavy loss and it is a major danger to human lives. Early stage fire detection and taking small steps of firefighting action may avoid huge loss and saves human lives. Most of the fire accidents will not cause huge loss, if the firefighting action is taken on time. This paper proposes the idea of including the autonomous firefighting mobile robot in the traditional fire safety Internet of Things (IoT) system to perform early firefighting action. If the fire is detected, IOT system sends alerting message to fire safety department and initiates mobile robot to perform action. Firefighting robot reaches fire location by using path planning algorithm and performs firefighting action and sends the video stream of fire location to the control room. This early firefighting action stops the fire spreading and alerts the fire safety officers. In the meantime, fire safety officers can do better plan to handle the fire accident by watching the video sent by the firefighting robot. Industries which has lot of possibility of fire accident may use firefighting mobile robot with their existing fire alerting system.