A Hawk Eye for forest fire control is put in use

When a place deep in the forest catches fire, a video monitoring system hanging high will immediately capture it and automatically sound an alarm; the Forest Fire Prevention Command Center will give orders and firefighters will rush to the site. This intelligent management system for forest fire prevention, a Hawk Eye , was put into use recently in Dalian High-tech Industrial Zone.

The forest in Dalian High-tech Industrial Zone covers an area of over 100 square kilometers, and the fire control there is very arduous. Last year, with an input of more than 6 million yuan, the district set up the Forest Fire Prevention Command Center, which takes up an area of 1,800 square meters, and a 42-member professional forest fire fighting brigade in Lingshui Neighborhood. The central system consists of three sub-systems: a video monitoring system, a video conferencing system and a wireless dispatching system. The front-end monitoring system is composed of a video capture system, a fire detection system, etc. The fire detection system can wisely tell smoke from fog and fire from light, having a function of double recognition to avoid false alarms. Once it snaps a suspected fire image, it will start an auto alarm; once the fire is verified by persons on duty, it will submit both image and alarm to superiors.

According to the Plan for Inspection and Implementation on Fire Prevention, Group 3, consisting of representatives of Dalian Municipal Bureau of Tourism, Dalian Forestry Bureau and Dalian Public Security Fire Bureau, led by Vice Mayor Sun Guangtian, came to Chengyuan Hot Spring Villa, the Forest Fire Prevention Command Center of Dalian High-tech Industrial Zone, the National Forest Park in the west suburbs of Dalian and Dalian Forest Zoo for an inspection on fire protection. They mainly checked on the management systems, fire fighting facilities, fire exits and safe utilization of fire, electricity, oil and gas. Sun affirmed the work of Dalian High-tech Industrial Zone after listening to the work report and having a field inspection.
From: Dalian Forestry Bureau