IoT based Autonomous Fire Suppression System For Vehicles

Fire safety has been a major concern for vehicles for a long time. Especially vehicles which carry a large number of people e.g.: Trains, Buses, and Ships. Taking this problem into consideration, a circuit has been designed that could minimize the adverse effects of such incidents and decrease the emergency response time by detecting the fire and finding the nearest helping station based on the coordinates using Haver sine formula. The system proposed has multiple uses, when no fire is detected the circuit live streams data including temperature, number of passengers, location, and the speed of the bus to the monitoring station using an API. When fire is detected by the sensors, the data from these sensors is used by the program to autonomously perform series of steps including opening the windows and sending the information to the nearest firefighting department in order to decrease the response time. Prototype implementation shows that the system is able to detect the fire on time and send the information without significant lag to the closest fire station. This paper also provides a simplified guide to the researcher who would like to conduct projects based on IOT and fire safety.