Sensors | 卷:9 |
Performance of a Protected Wireless Sensor Network in a Fire. Analysis of Fire Spread and Data Transmission | |
关键词: wireless sensor network; thermal insulation; natural fire; fire spread; | |
DOI : 10.3390/s90805878 | |
来源: DOAJ |
【 摘 要 】
The paper deals with a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) as a reliable solution for capturing the kinematics of a fire front spreading over a fuel bed. To provide reliable information in fire studies and support fire fighting strategies, a Wireless Sensor Network must be able to perform three sequential actions: 1) sensing thermal data in the open as the gas temperature; 2) detecting a fire i.e., the spatial position of a flame; 3) tracking the fire spread during its spatial and temporal evolution. One of the great challenges in performing fire front tracking with a WSN is to avoid the destruction of motes by the fire. This paper therefore shows the performance of Wireless Sensor Network when the motes are protected with a thermal insulation dedicated to track a fire spreading across vegetative fuels on a field scale. The resulting experimental WSN is then used in series of wildfire experiments performed in the open in vegetation areas ranging in size from 50 to 1,000 m².
【 授权许可】
Unknown