Automist Smartscan: the emergence of the smart fire sprinkler

Plumis为期15个月的实验性开发项目旨在开发一种可靠、自检、节水、“智能”的灭火装置，其动机是为家庭物业带来创新和经济实惠的灭火市场机会，这是从根本上改善当前喷头技术的技术挑战。基本的和不可靠的自动喷水灭火系统形成了当前的灭火标准。全世界每年安装超过4000万个喷头，但由于强制性法规、国内消费者的低价值主张以及对其附带影响的看法，这些喷头每9次中就有1次无法执行，并且更多地用于工业而不是家庭。Plumis将通过开发“Smartscan”来显着改进当前的最先进技术，这是一种基于其Automist系统的新型灭火能力，该系统得到了2013年Innovate UK Smart原型开发赠款的资助。Automist在2016年获得红点设计奖和女王创新企业奖。Smartscan将通过成为第一个基于水雾的系统来改善目前国内和工业火灾抑制的最新技术水平，该系统提供全屋保护，有针对性的智能检测和抑制，以及连接的自主自检，而无需在物业中喷水。公共资金将使Plumis有时间和资源完全专注于该项目，并以最快的速度在英国和美国进行商业化，在灭火行业中开发一种具有强大长期利益的渐进式创新。

Plumis' 15-month experimental development project to develop a reliable, self-testing, water efficient, “smart” fire suppression device is motivated by a market opportunity to bring innovative and affordable fire suppression to domestic properties, a technological challenge to radically improve current sprinkler technology. Basic and unreliable sprinkler systems form the current standard in fire suppression. More than 40 million sprinkler heads are installed each year worldwide, but they fail to perform 1 in 9 times and are used more in industry rather than homes because of mandated regulations, low value proposition for domestic consumers and perceptions of their collateral effects. Plumis will significantly improve upon the current state of the art by developing “Smartscan”, a new fire suppression capability building on its Automist system which was funded with the aid of a 2013 Innovate UK Smart development of prototype grant. Automist won the Red Dot Design Award and the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation in 2016. Smartscan will improve on the current state of the art in domestic and industrial fire supression by being the first water mist-based system offering whole house protection, targeted and intelligent detection and suppression, and connected autonomous self-testing without the need to spray water in properties. Public funding would allow Plumis both the time and resources to focus fully on the project and to proceed at top speed towards commercialisation in the UK and US, developing a step-change innovation in the fire suppression industry with strong long-term benefits for the public good in a timely fashion.