Author : Akib Islam, Navneet Kaur, Farogh Ahmad and P.Sathya

Increasing human population and technological development has lead to increase in fire accidents and hazards. Adverse conditions and physical limitations of human being make fire extinguishing challenging and demanding task. Fire extinguishing is very risky task and it may involve loss of life. Robotics is the emerging solution to protect the surrounding and human lives. Fire extinguishing robot is a hardware model which can be used for extinguishing the fire during fire accidents. It can reduce the errors and limitations faced by the humans during fire extinguishing task. Our designed robot can search the area, locate the fire and extinguish fire before it rages out of control. Our proposed robot can efficiently extinguish any kind of fire in any geographical location. It is able to navigate the building while actively scanning for the flame. It can send various data from the sensor to the cloud and can be operated wirelessly by any person from anywhere in the world through internet. With the help of Internet of Things, it can send alert and notifications to the user about the status of the fire. The robot which we have proposed in this paper found its application in fire extinguishing operations during fire accidents where the possibility of the servicemen to enter the fire prone area is very less.

Keywords: Fire fighting robot, Internet of Things, Wireless controlled robot, Microcontroller

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.6, No.1 (Feb-2016)