Wireless Smoke Sensor Alert System

Abstract

Every year in the world, over 1400,000 residential fires result in 16,000 fatalities and 120,000 injuries. Over 50% of those fatalities occur in homes without smoke detectors. The significance of smoke detectors is evident, and the statistics substantiate the need for the most advanced smoke detectors possible. The motivation behind the project came from brainstorming and thoughts regarding bolstering home safety. The importance of smoke detection is one of the chief safety concerns for residential (single-family) housing. Most smoke detectors on the current market are individual units sans communication or connections to other smoke detectors. Thus, only the smoke detector that sounds an alarm is the one which senses the smoke. The solution is a wireless implementation of smoke detectors—increasing safety in terms of saving lives and property. In the incident of a fire, residents are alerted more rapidly as response time is decreased, thereby increasing the chance for survival.