Red Team Final Presentation

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• Red Team Final Presentation
• December 8, 2008

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Fire Safe Microwave
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Overview

• Background
• Microwave Features
• Technical Components
• Business Model
• Summary

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Unsafe Microwaves
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Microwave Features

• Detects spark and/or fire
• Alerts user of danger
• Shuts down microwave
• Extinguishes flame with CO2
• Notifies user when unsafe to open door
• Indicates when CO2 cartridge needs to be replaced

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Product Demonstration
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Product Demonstration
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Component- Circuitry

• Digital control system with photodiode sensing

Check for Spark
Check for Fire
Spark Detected
Fire Detected
Stop Microwave Alert User
Suppress Fire Alert User
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Component- Fire Suppression
Spring
Solenoid
CO2 Cartridge
Cartridge Punctured
CO2 Released
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Component- CO2 Flow Switch
CO2
Electrical Continuity
CO2 Breaks Continuity
CO2
Reset Button
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Testing- Schlieren Flow Visualization for CO2
Nozzle
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Testing- Schlieren Flow Visualization for CO2
Nozzle
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Component- User Interface

• 3 surveys with over 300 responses
• Final design
• LED Light System
• Auditory Alarm

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Business Model

• Market Fire Safe Technology to OEM through
  product license

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Price and Cost
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Market Penetration
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Expected Revenue
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Fire Demonstration
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Fire Demonstration
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Acknowledgments

• Professor David Wallace
• Instructors Kim Vandiver, Matt Duplessie
• Mentors Anna Shih, Jon Evans, Pamela Siska
• Papallardo Staff
• 2.009 Instructors, TAs, Mentors, Staff, Maureen
  Lynch

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Questions or Comments?
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Back Up Slides
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Circuit Diagram
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Component- CO2 Flow Switch
CO2
CO2
Reset Button
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