Design and Construction of Automatic Fire Fighting Robot with SMS Notification

Abstract

The report focuses on the development of an automatic and unmanned firefighting robot, which can be used to detect and extinguish fire. Fires can breakout any time in our homes, workplaces, factories or labs and it is of highest importance that we have a system ready to tackle a dangerous accidents like this. The system currently available are smoke detectors which work well but have certain limitations such as not being able to detect small fire or not having enough coverage by the water showers to extinguish the whole fire. The smoke detectors also do not let people know if or where the fire broke out, which can have long term damaging effects due to delayed response. The proposed model in this report can help with controlling fires before they become disastrous. “Automatic firefighting robot with SMS notification” is easily deployable, can be made to work wirelessly, can detect small fires and also lets the user know where the fire broke out. To fulfill the goal of making this firefighting robot, we designed a robot which can detect small fire(simulated with candle) in a closed room(environment). It uses thermal and IR sensors to detect the fire and then moves towards it and sprays water on it from a safe distance. The fire detection and the movement of the robot towards it is controlled by the motherboard which consists of a Arduino Nano processor. The robot also houses a GSM and GPS modules, which send the user a SMS alerting them of a fire along with its location.