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The analysis of the operational process of a complex fire alarm system used in transport facilities

Show Author's Information Jacek Paś1,  Tomasz Klimczak2,  Adam Rosiński3( ),  Marek Stawowy3
Military University of Technology Faculty of Electronic, Institute of Electronic Systems, Division of Electronic Systems Exploitations, ul. gen. S. Kaliskiego 2, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland
The Main School of Fire Service, ul. Juliusza Słowackiego 52/54, 01-629 Warsaw, Poland
Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Transport, Department of Telecommunications in Transport, ul. Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warsaw, Poland
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simulation, reliability, modelling, operation, fire alarm systems (FAS)
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Paś J, Klimczak T, Rosiński A, et al. The analysis of the operational process of a complex fire alarm system used in transport facilities. Building Simulation, 2022, 15(4): 615-629. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-021-0790-y
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A fire alarm system (FAS) is a system comprising signalling-alarm devices, which automatically detect and transmit information about fire, but also receivers of fire alarms and receivers for damage signals. Fire alarm systems function in different environmental conditions. During operation they should be in state of fitness. This is determined by the reliability of the assembled units and rational management of the operation process. Therefore a reliability and operational analysis of fire alarm systems as a whole is essential. This article presents an authorial model and an operational and reliability analysis of FAS, which is exploited in a transport building. It also demonstrates relationships occurring in the analysed system, where to an addressable fire alarm central unit with detection loops and control-monitoring loops alarm device lines (with monitored relay outputs for actuation of alarm-signalling devices) were connected. Research and analysis of results for representative FAS, which were exploited in similar environmental conditions, were conducted in order to determine operational and reliability parameters of the investigated system. FAS computer simulation was run during the time t = 1 year of safety system operation. This led to the calculation of the probability value of the analysed FAS staying in the examined operational states.


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The analysis of the operational process of a complex fire alarm system used in transport facilities

Show Author's information Jacek Paś1, Tomasz Klimczak2, Adam Rosiński3( ), Marek Stawowy3
Military University of Technology Faculty of Electronic, Institute of Electronic Systems, Division of Electronic Systems Exploitations, ul. gen. S. Kaliskiego 2, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland
The Main School of Fire Service, ul. Juliusza Słowackiego 52/54, 01-629 Warsaw, Poland
Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Transport, Department of Telecommunications in Transport, ul. Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warsaw, Poland

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A fire alarm system (FAS) is a system comprising signalling-alarm devices, which automatically detect and transmit information about fire, but also receivers of fire alarms and receivers for damage signals. Fire alarm systems function in different environmental conditions. During operation they should be in state of fitness. This is determined by the reliability of the assembled units and rational management of the operation process. Therefore a reliability and operational analysis of fire alarm systems as a whole is essential. This article presents an authorial model and an operational and reliability analysis of FAS, which is exploited in a transport building. It also demonstrates relationships occurring in the analysed system, where to an addressable fire alarm central unit with detection loops and control-monitoring loops alarm device lines (with monitored relay outputs for actuation of alarm-signalling devices) were connected. Research and analysis of results for representative FAS, which were exploited in similar environmental conditions, were conducted in order to determine operational and reliability parameters of the investigated system. FAS computer simulation was run during the time t = 1 year of safety system operation. This led to the calculation of the probability value of the analysed FAS staying in the examined operational states.

Keywords: simulation, reliability, modelling, operation, fire alarm systems (FAS)

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