Development of an Education and Training System Based on Augmented Reality to Improve the Firefighting Facility Maintenance Ability of Fire Safety Managers

Abstract

This study grafts fire safety manager education to augmented reality technology to increase the familiarity of fire safety managers with facility inspection and operation based on the automatic fire alarm system that plays the most critical role in early fire situations. To design the education and training content, the Korea Fire Safety Institute, which educates and trains fire safety managers, arranges the training content in the textbooks provided to actual fire safety managers and sets the sequence of operating principles and inspection methods. The purpose is to provide fire safety managers with realistic inspection methods and practice opportunities by implementing them in augmented reality. The education and training program allows learning about automatic fire alarm systems in the following order: structure and operating principles → inspection and practice → assessment. In structure and operating principles, fire safety managers can acquaint themselves with the role of automatic fire alarm systems and facility components and circuit tests according to operation principles. During inspection and practice, at least three inspection methods are learned for each facility. Finally, the assessment refers to the actual evaluation and achievement standards of the Korea Fire Safety Institute, checking a facility in a given mission without guidance or explanation based on the aspects learned in inspection and practice. In addition, it reviews the aspects learned in theory by including a quiz during inspection to improve proficiency by setting it up to be applied in practice.