In:
Fire Science and Engineering, Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering, Vol. 34, No. 6 ( 2020-12-31), p. 104-113
Abstract:
As unwanted fire alarms within the automatic fire detection system increase, fire-fighting power gets wasted. This is recognized as important because it causes a decrease in the evacuation reliability of the occupancy. Therefore, in order to develop measures to reduce unwanted fire alarms, foreign (United States and, United Kingdom) and domestic standards related to unwanted fire alarms were compared and analyzed in the present study. Through the analysis the problems with the standards were identified as uncertainty regarding the detecting space and radius of the smoke detector, the absence of a statistical database (DB) for unwanted fire alarms, the absence of a protocol for managing unwanted fire alarms, and the absence of testing standards for unwanted fire alarms based on scenarios. Consequently, it is proposed that to deal with the problems, it is necessary to ascertain the detecting space and radius of the smoke detector, to propose unwanted fire alarm protection codes for database (DB) system construction, to supplement the fire safety management log by developing related manuals, and to develop unwanted fire alarm testing standards of Korean type based on scenarios.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2765-060X
,
2765-088X
DOI:
10.7731/KIFSE.183ba66c
Language:
English
Publisher:
Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering
Publication Date:
2020
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