ONYX FirstVision

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ONYX FirstVision

• Interactive Firefighters Display
• John Brady
• National Account Manager, Fire Services

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Agenda

• Technology Defined
• Evolution
• Benefits
• Event Command Challenges
• Applications
• Codes and Approvals
• Sample Screens

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Technology Defined

• Revolutionary navigation tool for firefighters
  and emergency responders
• Interactive interface for firefighters
• Tool for assessment
• A touch screen PC that displays critical
  information

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Evolution Development

• Began Development in 2003
• Need addressed more information available on
  fire ground for a fast and accurate response to
  help reduce loss of property and life
• Firefighters View of the World
• Extensive focus groups by Honeywell Labs
• Match fire commanders model
• Visual, No text

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Evolution - Development

• Time Sequencing Animation
• Enhance perception of speed, direction, pattern
  of smoke
• Intuitive Visual Codes and Symbols
• Mimic physical appearance action
• Minimal Interaction
• Maximum info, single screen
• Touch screen PC, big buttons
• 100 Intuitive - Initial assessment, 30-60
  seconds
• No training required for firefighters

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Evolution - Development

• Finding and Fighting Fire More Effectively
• Wayfinding Technology
• Where you are
• Best route to destination
• Recognizing the destination
• Finding your way out

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Evolution - Present

• Enhancements just released (January 2007)
• Increased Flexibility
• Additional initiating device types
• Alarm, Trouble, Supervisory, etc.
• Building Information and Contact List
• Custom icons
• Additional Icon
• You Are Here
• Area of Refuge
• Printer Icon

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Evolution - Future

• Campus View
• Wireless Fire Fighter Tracking
• FirstVision 3D

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Event Command Challenges

• Many unknowns
• Top priority is to locate and rescue any
  occupants
• Occupants evacuating a building during a fire
  emergency are often confused and may even be
  injured.
• They need to find or be led to the safest path
  out, trying to avoid intense areas of fire and
  smoke.

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Event Command Challenges

• Locating the seat of the fire and potential
  spread
• Identify and locate unique building hazards
• Structural hazards
• Chemical
• Process
• Floor plan with the locations of hazardous
  materials

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FirstVision Benefits

• Identifies crucial information
• Where in the structure did the fire start?
• What smoke/heat devices are active?
• 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.)

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FirstVision Benefits

• Improves firefighter and emergency responder
  safety
• 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)

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FirstVision Benefits

• Improves building occupant safety
• 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

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FirstVision Benefits

• Reduces the risk of property loss
• Helps preserve property by allowing the
  firefighter to locate and extinguish the fire
  sooner
• Identifies exactly where in the building the
  emergency originated
• Firefighters have the information to make
  accurate decisions about where to first send a
  response team
• Displays time sequenced activated detectors to
  show the fire progression

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FirstVision Benefits

• Minimize business interruption
• Locate the fire faster and easier

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FirstVision Benefits

• Minimize business interruption
• Immediately accessible on scene
• Wall-mounted in building entrances, security
  offices and fire command Centers
• Cabinet door unlocks automatically upon alarm -
  no key is required from a Knox Box or similar
  secure enclosure

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Applications

• High Life Safety Issues
• Occupied by a large number of people need fire
  response personnel immediately directed to the
  fire event location
• Examples
• Hospitals
• Schools
• Dormitories
• Assisted Living Facilities
• High-Rise Residential/Commercial

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Applications

• Buildings with Complicated Layouts
• Graphic site plan and floor plans to expedite
  fire service identifying the fire location and
  best way to reach the fire
• Examples
• Shopping malls
• Convention centers
• Large distribution centers
• Manufacturing plants

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Applications

• High-Value Facilities
• Facilities with hazardous materials can clearly
  see the location of these materials on the floor
  plan
• Examples
• Laboratory facilities in hospitals and
  universities
• Telecommunications
• Manufacturing
• Research
• Financial

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Evolution of Technology and Codes

• Historically, everything associated with Fire
  Alarm system is code driven
• Technology will grow incrementally faster than
  the codes ability to keep up with it
• Proactive instituting and using new technology
  that can improve the safety of firefighters and
  building occupants alike
• New technology of FirstVision will enhance the
  fire service response, not change the fundamental
  approach.

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FirstVision Codes and Standards to Date

• UL/ ULC Listed
• NEMA SB30 Fire Service Annunciator and Interface
  standard adopted
• NIST- Submitted proposal to NEMA for en-route
  display, colors and icon standards
• NFPA 72 2007 Annex will include NEMA SB30
  standards

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NEMA Standard - Announcement

• NEMA Introduces New Fire Service Standard 
• Dec 2005
• (ROSSLYN, VA) - NEMAs Signaling Protection and
  Communications Product Section, representing
  elements of the fire alarm industry, recently
  released SB 30-2005, Fire Service Annunciator and
  Interface.
• SB 30 was developed jointly by the National
  Institute of Standards and Technology, Building
  and Fire Research Laboratory, NEMA, and the U.S.
  fire alarm industry.

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ONYX FirstVision Screen Low Rise
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ONYX FirstVision Screen High Rise
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ONYX FirstVision Screen Event List
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ONYX FirstVision Screen Building Info.
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ONYX FirstVision Screen Contact List
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ONYX FirstVision Screen Site Plan
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ONYX FirstVision Screen HazMat Detail
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Thank You

• John Brady