Automation systems in smart buildings: a review

DS Vijayan, AL Rose, S Arvindan, J Revathy… - Journal of Ambient …, 2020 - Springer
In the present scenario everyone turned into smart applications by including the intelligence
into the applications and this reduces the burden of frequent interruption or control by the …

An adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm for fire source identification of the utility tunnel fire

X Liu, B Sun, ZD Xu, X Liu - Fire Safety Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
In order to overcome serious utility tunnel fires and minimize economic loss, it is essential to
establish an effective and practical method for finding the fire source. An adaptive Particle …

Evacuation in buildings based on BIM: taking a fire in a university library as an example

H Zheng, S Zhang, J Zhu, Z Zhu, X Fang - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
As a typical public place, a university library has a large collection of books with heavy fire
load, dense population, and large flow of people. The situation of safe evacuation in case of …

Transformation of Buildings and Urban Spaces to Adapt for Future Mobility: A Systematic Literature Review

SJ Park, JH Kim, MJ Maing, JH Ahn, YG Kim, NH Ham… - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
The development of smart cities has led to transforming modern city operations by applying
emerging technologies from the fourth industrial revolution such as the Internet of Things …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical simulation on the influence of low air pressure upon smoke spread and fire alarm process

L Xu, W Zheng - Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The airplane cargo fire is a severity disaster for the airplane in flight. The fire alarm system in
cargo compartment plays an important part of the flight safety, which is a useful method to …

Stack effects in tall building fires: a case study of Taiwan old apartment fire

HS Huang, CY Lin, SC Wang, CH Su, LP Chen - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Tainan, a city that prospered early in Taiwan, has a hot and humid atmosphere. Hence, the
grilled doors in numerous old buildings for ventilation and lighting to conserve energy. This …

[HTML][HTML] Full-scale experimental study on thermal smoke movement characteristics in an indoor pedestrian street

A Jiao, W Lin, B Cai, H Wang, J Chen, M Zhang… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Indoor pedestrian street, a common architecture scheme, brings both convenience and fire
risk in the meantime. Full-scale tests were carried out to study thermal smoke movement …

Smoke spread process under different heights based on numerical simulation

R Wang, X Lan, L Xu - Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Fire alarm system relates the safety of people's life and property when the fire occurs in high-
rise buildings. The characteristic of the smoke spread process in the fire is a crucial problem …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental Study on Early Fire Smoke Characteristics in a High-Volume Space: A Fire Detection Perspective

L Wang, X Zhang, L Li, B Li, Z Mei - Fire, 2024 - mdpi.com
High-volume space structures are characterized by high combustible loads, rapid fire
development, difficulty in firefighting, and potential building collapse risks, making early fire …

Numerical simulation on the effect of fire shutter descending height on smoke extraction efficiency in a large atrium

Q Liu, J Xiao, B Cai, X Guo, H Wang, J Chen, M Zhang… - Fire, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this study, a series of numerical simulations were carried out to investigate the effect of fire
shutter descending height on the smoke extraction efficiency in a large space atrium. Based …