Municipal Fire Protection Surveys as Indicators of Water System Status

Minority settlements have good local landscape features and rich cultural heritage. However, due to complex geographical conditions and lagging economic development, there are many potential security threats in their human settlements. Based on the landscape ecological security pattern theory, aiming at eliminating the practical dilemma of frequent fires and difficult rescue in mountainous settlements in southwestern China, this paper proposes a planning idea to improve the settlement environment’s own disaster resilience and ecological endurance ability through the adjustment of landscape pattern. Taking the reconstruction planning and design of Xiaozhai Village in Longji of Guangxi province as an example, based on the geographical structure and resource characteristics of the village, a four-in-one landscape fire security pattern for mountain settlement is constructed, including building group, road evacuation system, natural fire protection network of water system and biological fire protection forest belt. The study provides a reference for the protection, renewal and re-planning of minority settlement.

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Transformation of the water system of the Education City in Doha into a smart water system

MATEC Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/matecconf/201929501003 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 295 ◽

pp. 01003

Author(s):

Abdallah AL-NAEMI ◽

Isam SHAHROUR

Keyword(s):

Water Quality ◽

Quality Control ◽

Real Time ◽

Fire Protection ◽

Water Solution ◽

Water System ◽

Management Systems ◽

Water Quality Control ◽

Smart Water ◽

Education City

This paper presents the transformation of the water system of the Education City in Doha (Qatar) into a smart water system. This city covers an area of 14 km2 and includes 80 buildings. The water system provides drinking, irrigation and fire protection services. It suffers from the use of fragmented management systems and from a lack of real-time monitoring, which result in a deterioration of efficiency of the water system and users’ information The paper describes the water system and then the architecture of the smart water solution and its use for leak detection, water quality control and operation safety.

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