- Author
- Neily, M. L.
- Title
- Residential Smoke Alarms: Can We Do Better?
- Coporate
- Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, DC
- Book or Conf
- Research and Practice: Bridging the Gap. Fire Suppression and Detection Research Application Symposium. Proceedings. Fire Protection Research Foundation. February 23-25, 2000, Orlando, FL, 32-50 p., 2000
- Keywords
- fire suppression | fire detection | fire research | fire safety | fire protection | smoke detectors | residential buildings | power supplies | maintenance | false alarms | warning systems | fire data | data analysis | evaluation | smoldering | fire statistics | sensors | tenability limits | structures
- Identifiers
- obtain funding for the project; focus on method to evaluate alarm performance in real fires; demonstrate capabilities of various alarm technologies; define potential improvements in residential fire warning; develop proposals for standards/installation codes; consider updated consumer information/education