Interactive Firefighter’s Display

1. Interactive Firefighter’s Display

2. ONYX FirstVision Defined • Revolutionary navigation tool for firefighters and emergency responders • A touch screen PC that displays critical information: • Origin of a fire • Spread of a fire

3. Interactive Firefighter’s Display • Used by • Firefighters • First Responders • Speeds Scene Size-Up • Makes emergency operations safer and more effective

4. Wayfinding Technology • Where you are • Best route to destination • Recognizing the destination • Finding your way back • Graphically displays active fire alarm devices and potential hazards

5. ONYX FirstVision Benefits • Allows firefighters to quickly locate and extinguish the fire • Improves life safety for building occupants and firefighters • Reduces the risk of property loss

6. FirstVision Benefits • Responder immediately sees where the emergency is located and where he/she is in reference to the fire • Response team can be mobilized immediately to the proper area via the safest route • Indicates location of hazardous materials and structural hazards (e.g. bar joists and tension cables) Improves firefighter and emergency responder safety

7. FirstVision Benefits • Responders plan the safest escape route for occupants to minimize occupant exposure to fire or smoke • Lists occupancy levels during the day versus evening so firefighters can quickly estimate the number of occupants Improves building occupant safety

8. FirstVision Benefits • Identifies exactly where in the building the emergency originated • Displays time sequenced activated detectors to show the fire progression • Firefighters have the information to make accurate decisions about where to first send a response team Reduces the risk of property loss

9. FirstVision Benefits • Wall-mounted in a building lobby or entrance to make it immediately accessible to fire personnel • Cabinet door unlocks automatically upon alarm so no key is required from a Knox Box or similar secure enclosure Immediately accessible on scene

10. Scene Size-Up Questions • What smoke/heat devices are active? • Where in the structure did the fire start? • When did the fire start? • How long have the devices been in alarm? • How is the fire progressing? • Sequence of detector activation • What hazards exist? • Chemical storage • Physical hazards; airshafts, elevators, etc.

11. Locations • Building Entrances • Offices • Malls • Manufacturing Facilities • Warehouses

12. Simple to Use and Install • 100% intuitive - initial assessment in 30-60 seconds • No training required for firefighters • Minimal interaction, maximum information – from a single screen • Touch screen, big buttons • Easy-to-deploy • Import existing floor plans

13. ONYX FirstVision Screen – Low Rise

14. ONYX FirstVision Screen – Site Plan

15. ONYX FirstVision Screen – Alarm Detail

16. ONYX FirstVision Screen – Building Info.

17. ONYX FirstVision Screen – HazMat Detail

18. ONYX FirstVision Screen – High Rise

19. ONYX FirstVision Screen – Contact List

20. The Audible Exit Sign

21. Directional Sound Defined Directional Sounder – an audible means of identifying exits & egress routes to provide a means of overcoming the limitations of current exit signage and alarm signals (omni-directional sound)

22. What is the purpose of directional sound? • Directs occupants and firefighters to the nearest exit • Pulsating, broadband sound is distinctive from the audible sounds of bells, horns, or voice speakers

23. How is this different than our current systems? • Fire Alarm vs. “Directional Sound” technology • Fire Alarm (Detection & Alerting) • Early detection • Warn of imminent danger • Provide notification / warning via bells, horns, strobes, electronic sounders • “Directional Sound” (Exit Marking) • Audible sound to locate exits (or exit paths) • Equivalence to Low Location Lighting not fire alarm sounder • Different Types of Systems!

24. Why is directional sound necessary? • Human Behavior phenomena • Occupants exit a building by a route familiar to them – the way they came in • “learned irrelevance” – people seldom consider the information that is conveyed via exit signs or evacuation maps/floor plans Directional sound reduces these tendencies

25. What are the benefits of directional sound? • Not intended to replace, but compatible with standard fire alarms • Focus is providing additional sound cues to assist occupants in locating the nearest exit • ‘Attention capturing capability” overcomes issues of ‘learned irrelevance’ of exit signs • Sound travels around corners avoids issues of line-of-sight methods (e.g. exit signs) • Sound independent of language • Provides cues in adverse conditions of smoke or other low visibility condition • Significant benefit to the visually impaired Reduces evacuation times by up to 75% in smoke, 35% in clear visibility

26. How does it work – Broadband Sound *Between 2-3KHz is the frequency which is most sensitive to the human hearing and where all alarm sounders are placed. 500Hz 3.5KHz Human speech 20Hz 1KHz 3KHz 5KHz 20KHz All 3 cues are required for accurate localization Low Mid High Between 1-3KHz gives no location cues.

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31. Implementation is Straightforward 1 2 3

32. Installation at Doors

33. Installations • Children’s Museum • Off-campus dormitories • Department store • Day-care center • School for the blind • Government buildings • Mines • Office buildings

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