The influence of external factors on false alarms in an infrared fire detection system
Pedro Canales Mengod A C , José Andrés Torrent Bravo B and Leticia López Sardá B
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A Valencia Town Hall Fire Service, Plata Avenue, s/n 46013 Valencia, Spain.
B Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering Department, Forest Science and Technology Research Group, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Camino de Vera, s/n 46022 Valencia, Spain.
C Corresponding author. Email: pedcamen@posgrado.upv.es
International Journal of Wildland Fire 24(2) 261-266 https://doi.org/10.1071/WF13200
Submitted: 26 November 2013 Accepted: 15 October 2014 Published: 3 February 2015
Abstract
There have been many studies on the use of different automatic wildfire detection systems, yet few long-term analyses of any of these techniques have been reported. In this paper we present the results obtained from the study of an infrared fire detection system that has been working in the field for more than 10 years, over which period it produced 10 519 false alarms. This article gives a brief description of the system and discusses the false alarms, showing that factors that are often not taken into account in the development of fire detection algorithms, such as camera orientation, the type of surface being monitored, or the time of day, can lead to false alarms being triggered.
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