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Situational awareness

FLAMEVision FV300 provides location information of single or multiple fire events in two ways; by referencing the IR sensing array cells that register alarms and secondly by superimposing a CCTV image with the alarm data highlighted. This ensures that the most appropriate executive actions can be speedily deployed. This may involve isolating part of a plant rather than a costly and disruptive total shutdown.

Alarm reliability

The algorithms within the FLAMEVision FV300 are highly tuned to discriminate between flame and nonflame sources. This discrimination is made easier by the use of the array as any IR sources within the field of view will form images on different parts of the array. The FLAMEVision FV300 can then analyse and track each source separately thus reaching a decision on each individual source. This inherent feature of the IR array together with the ability to mask array cells results in a detector with an unrivalled false alarm rejection capability.

Consistent sensitivity across field of view

The range of FLAMEVision FV300 is consistent across the field of view, unlike UV/IR or triple channel IR detectors where the range reduces as the target moves away from the axis. The presence of black bodiesin the field of view can be tracked and will only affect the array cells in that part of the field of view. The sensitivity of unaffected array cells maintain their sensitivity and range.

24 Hour protection in exposed locations

The detection capability of FLAMEVision FV300 does not rely on the visual information provided by the CCTV output and is therefore not reliant on the weather, visibility and lighting conditions that can affect CCTV. IR will penetrate fog and driving rain and even with reduced visibility the location of a fire or fires will still be reported.

Forensic audit of events

FLAMEVision FV300 is able to track and output information on the target sources over time and consequently store information about an incident prior to any alarm. This presents the benefit of a forensic audit of what took place in infrared terms prior to the alarm. Similarly, the tracking of hot IR sources allows maintenance staff to understand any hot body changes which take place from one maintenance period to another while giving facilities operators advance warning of a potential flame situation.

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