Has anyone ever heard of automated water cannons being used for fire protection in the US? This technology is being employed in China and was mentioned in a recent article in NFPA magazine about the new Beijing Olympic stadium and swimming venue. It sounds like basically a remote controlled monitor that can throw water up to 200 feet which is actuated and controlled using a vision system that can detect fires. They apparently use them frequently in large open-space applications. This sounds like an excellent application for the dry storage of boats possibly and other storage configurations. Imagine having three or for of these monitors in a warehouse or marine with some cameras to cover everything. Then upon detecting a fire, it could feed live video to the monitoring station and even turn itself off automatically after visually confirming the fire was out.
Just kicking around an idea. Any thoughts? Steve Kowkabany, P.E. Fire Protection Engineer Neptune Fire Protection Engineering LLC 616 Davis Street Neptune Beach, FL 32266 904-652-4200 Phone 904-212-0868 Fax _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
