The Design
Being an industrial design project, there was an emphasis on the design. We chose to follow Ubiquiti’s design language which encompassed a clean minimal design that had little visual impact as not to stick out like a sore thumb. A thorough form and CMF analysis was performed before arriving at the design.
The Packaging
The device will have an accompanying dock and app for the user and a separate platform that firefighters can access.
The Product
An IoT fire alarm that in the presence of a fire, would open up revealing a camera. This would livestream the room containing the developing fire to both the user and firefighters on route.
The Problem
As part of an Industrial Design module my group and I, designed a solution in response to speaking to firefighters at LFB’s Kensington Station. We conducted hours worth of interviews and exploratory exercises with over a dozen firefighters to truly discover their pain points.
How might we equip firefighters to gather real-time situational information in order to accelerate the decision-making model?
Prototyping
The design consisted of a complex mechanism that needed to be packaged into a small form factor along with a lot of electronics. The components include: camera, 3x MQ sensors, ESP-32, thermistor, servo, stepper motor and buzzers.
Aims of the product:
- Improve reconnaissance: quicker planning, room layout and hazards, fire development.
- Solve issues with current alarms: false alarms, limited information, maintenance, sustainability.
- Integrate into home IoT system: usability, future proofing.
