Alarmeye® Detection

AlarmEye® addresses most of the problems commonly faced by video image detectors by having strong immunity to interference, such as natural sunlight, reflective or flashing lights, arc welding and steam. Additionally, it is able to detect obstructed fire, smoke in total darkness, and transparent-flame alcohol fire. Because it is designed as a distributed system, it can be installed as an independent detector, or as part of a network as it is compatible with most systems on the market.
In structures with large open areas, traditional fire detection methods, such as point and beam detectors, have shown to be ineffective at detecting fires sufficiently quickly, due to high ceilings and spatial restrictions. In these applications, even the most sensitive air sample detection method is not the best solution due to factors that include air-conditioning, heating and ventilation, height and open space constraints. Furthermore, smoke from fires usually flows in a sideways manner, stratifying, and dispersing, delaying the response time of traditional detectors.

Key features
Early Detection
AlarmEye® is capable of detecting the initial stage of a burning fire and its smoke signature, at its source and regardless of its movement pattern.

Immunity to False Alarms
It is not plagued by the disadvantages of video image detection’s inability to differentiate between what may appear to be flame and smoke, such as natural sunlight, reflective or flashing lights, arc welding and steam to actual flame and smoke.

Light and Dark Environment
AlarmEye’s detection technology allows the system to detect smoke, even in total darkness. As the environmental light decreases to a certain degree, the IR light source will automatically switch on allowing AlarmEye® to detect smoke under dim or no light environments.

Detection Capability for Obstructed Fire
Another disadvantage of video image detection systems is obstruction. Under normal circumstances, if the fire is obstructed from the view of the detector, it will not be detected. This will cause problems in areas where objects such as storage shelves, machines and equipment will obstruct the view of the detector causing an alarm not to be raised when there is, in fact, a fire. AlarmEye® is capable of detecting reflections of the obstructed fire on its surrounding objects and hence is still able to alarm even if the fire cannot be “seen” in the video image.

Distributed Intelligent System Architecture
Most traditional video image detection systems are structured as cameras linking to an external server for image processing and alarm signal output. AlarmEye®, on the other hand, is designed as a distributed intelligent system; its processing is done in the detector itself, hence there is no limit to the number of detectors that can be installed in a network.

Intelligent Security Surveillance
Not only can the AlarmEye® system detect flame and smoke, it has intelligent security surveillance functions that allow for trip-wire, invader, loitering, theft, counting, and abandoned object detection.

Detection of flame and smoke in factory

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