Control system for fire prevention facilities

• US 9,155,928 B2
• Filed: 07/15/2013
• Issued: 10/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Titan Fire System SL
• Original Assignee: Carolina Vilas Blanco, Hector Gil San Jose
• Inventors: Vilas Blanco, Carolina, Gil San Jose, Hector
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hung T
• Application Number:
  US13/941,672
• Publication Number:
  US 20140020914A1
• Time in Patent Office: 820 Days
• Field of Search: 340/539.1, 340/539.16, 340/539.17, 340/531, 340/568.1, 340/611, 340/612, 340/614, 169/23, 169/30, 169/75, 455/456, 455/456.3, 455/456.6
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A62C 37/50 Testing or indicating devices for determining the state of readiness of the equipment

Abstract

A control system for fire prevention facilities is provided, particularly for the type of facilities mounted on buildings and warehouses mounting at least one pressure group and/or one equipped fire hydrant and/or one fire extinguisher. The control system comprises at least one pressure group and at least one equipped fire hydrant with a pressure gauge provided with a LED light and communication means, via radio or wiring, as well as at least one fire extinguisher equipped with a pressure gauge provided with a LED light and communication means, via radio or wiring; a control center with, at least one computer and a database.

Claims

1. A control system for fire prevention facilities, comprising:

at least one pressure group equipped with a pressure gauge provided with a LED light and radio or wired communication means;

at least one fire hydrant equipped with a pressure gauge provided with a LED light and radio or wired communication means;

at least one fire extinguisher equipped with a pressure gauge provided with a LED light and radio or wired communication means;

a control center with, at least one computer configured to receive information from each communication means, the at least one computer being connected to a fixed or mobile telephone network; and

,

a storage database of a plan of a fire prevention facility to be controlled, with a location of each pressure group, a location of each fire hydrant and a location of each fire extinguisher;

wherein the control system further comprises a warning receiving center that comprises a second computer configured to receive information from each communication means from a monitoring station of the control center via SMS, e-mail or telephone;

the warning receiving center being connected to the fixed or mobile telephone network;

wherein each pressure gauge is provided with a power supply battery and comprises a wireless transmission; and

, wherein a safety pin of each fire extinguisher is associated with the pressure gauge of the respective fire extinguisher and

wherein the safety pin is either;

inserted, by one end of the safety pin, into a small hole of the pressure gauge of the respective fire extinguisher, the safety pin being in contact with the communication means of the respective fire extinguisher;

or

connected to the pressure gauge of the respective fire extinguisher by means of an element, and inserted into the small hole of the pressure gauge of the respective fire extinguisher, the safety pin being in contact with the communication means of the respective fire extinguisher.

2. The control system of claim 1, wherein the wireless transmission is a Bluetooth®

transmission.