Images of Homelessness: The Home of the Needy Aged

Homelessness in 1880s New Zealand, as reported in the press, appears to be more intimate and less melodramatic than overseas examples. House fires, such as that of William Beals' eight-roomed house in Epsom, the destruction by fire of Mr Keogh's seven-roomed dwelling on the north-west side of Mount Pukekaroro, and the 1884 fire which broke out "on the grounds of St. Mary's Orphanage, Ponsonby" are examples. Chronic homelessness, when it appears, occurs via the reporting of institutional and architectural support structures. The paper will examine a specific example of an architecture for the homeless: the Home for the Needy Aged in Newtown, Wellington.

Design of a Home Fire Detection System Using Arduino and SMS Gateway

Fire is a problem that can happen at any time. Delay in coping with house fires can induce in loss of human life or material. If the fire is not held severely, incidents like house fires can occur and create more significant losses, especially with the increasing number of residents’ settlements in the formation of huddled houses, which will be more challenging to handle in case of a fire. This research aims to build a prototype system that quickly helps house owners and firefighters to detect fires and gas leaks. This home fire detection system is utilized to measure room temperature and gas levels in a room, then the output of this system is sending information of short messages and alarms. The results revealed that the prototype room with a scale of 1:25, 1:50, and 1:75 which uses a temperature sensor and a gas sensor could run as desired. In 10 testing trials, the system works according to the designed plan, which means the system could interpret the temperature and gas leakage of a room, then the system will send a short message and ring the alarm.

Prototipe Pengaman Kebakaran Rumah Menggunakan Thermal Camera

80% of cases of building or house fires in Indonesia are caused by electrical short circuits. Currently, there are only MCB and ELCB devices protecting for building electrical installations, but these devices cannot protect the conditions that cause fires. In a short circuit, there will be heating of the short cable or device. In this study, researchers used a thermal camera that can be placed on an electrical panel to be able monitor the temperature of electrical panel which includes cables, MCB, or can be placed on other devices. When the detected object temperature exceeds a predetermined limit, the device will provide a warning in the form of sound and text and can automatically cut off electricity in the building's electricity network. This research produces a prototype of a power grid safety device using a Raspberry Pi that can be applied to buildings and objects that have the potential to emit excess heat that can cause fires. Systems it will be able to monitor, provide warnings and can automatically cut off the electricity network when the temperature of the observed object exceeds the specified limit and has the potential to emit excess heat which can cause a fire.

Emerging Cellular-Based Therapies in Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Carbon monoxide (CO) is an odorless and colorless gas has multiple sources that include engine exhaust, faulty furnaces and other sources of incomplete combustion of carbon compounds such as house fires. The most serious complications for survivors of consequential CO exposure is persistent neurological sequelae occurring in up to 50% of patients. CO inhibits mitochondrial respiration by specifically binding to the heme a3 in the active site of CIV like hydrogen sulfide, cyanide and phosphides. While hyperbaric oxygen remains the cornerstone for treatment, it has variable efficacy requiring new approaches to treatment. There are a paucity of cellular-based therapies in the area of CO poisoning, there have been recent advancements that include antioxidants and a mitochondrial substrate prodrug. The succinate prodrugs derived from chemical modification of succinate are endeavored to enhance delivery of succinate to cells, increasing uptake of succinate into the mitochondria, and providing metabolic support for cells. The therapeutic intervention of succinate prodrugs is thus potentially applicable to patients with CO poisoning via metabolic support for fuel oxidation and possibly improving efficacy of HBO therapy.

Environment Monitoring System Raising Awareness of Sensitive Inhabitants Based on Regression Predictive Modelling

The system described in this paper notifies the user about possible indoor environmental hazards through a smartphone application. Events such as house fires or increasing levels of dangerous substances are detected; thus, raising the awareness level in regard to the quality of the indoor environment. Our solution is a system that monitors the environment within a room in order to avoid undesired health hazards. It consists of a data collection subsystem, a cloud database which stores the collected information and a mobile application that displays and notifies the user in case of critical events that might negatively affect the health condition.

Perancangan Alat Pencegah Kebakaran Rumah Akibat Kelalaian Manusia Mematikan Kompor Gas Berbasis Mikrokontroler Arduino yang Terintegrasi dengan Smartphone

Many know that the activities of most people who are at home certainly cannot be kept away from the name of cooking with gas stoves. But it was a concern because of the many cases that occurred related to gas stoves. Often from most people when cooking they forget to turn off the stove because of other activities or even leave. This can lead to potential house fires. To overcome this problem, we need a tool that can detect the condition of the gas stove, in order to prevent undesirable things from happening earlier. To avoid undesirable events due to human negligence turning off the gas stove. So the design of making tools that can determine whether there is activity of moving objects in front of the gas stove. So that if the gas stove is still burning, the gas stove will automatically turn off or be turned off remotely by the homeowner by giving notification to the homeowner's handphone.

The ‘canine rescue’ phenomenon

While deaths caused by interactions with dogs in medico-legal situations most often involve trauma from attacks, in certain circumstances, deaths may occur from sharing environmental hazards that the animal has been exposed to during attempted rescues. Search of the Forensic Science South Australia (FSSA), Australia, autopsy database over a 16-year period from 2004 to 2020 found three such cases, including two women aged 46 and 61 years who were both killed in separate incidents after being struck by vehicles when they attempted to rescue dogs that had strayed onto busy roads. The final case was a 53-year-old man who drowned in a river while trying to rescue his dog. A review of Internet databases and news sources revealed other cases where would-be dog rescuers had drowned in rivers and the sea or had succumbed to hypothermia in frozen lakes and waterways. Other hazardous situations involve house fires, falls from heights, electrocution and envenomation. The characteristic features of these cases are of a dog (often a pet) getting itself into, or being found in, a dangerous situation, with owners or bystanders then attempting rescue. The dangers of the situation are either ignored or underestimated by the rescuers who often also misjudge the capacity of dogs to survive/self-rescue. Cases may therefore be encountered in forensic investigations where death or serious injury has occurred during attempts to protect an animal from particular types of environmental dangers. Unlike the owners, it is not infrequently documented that the dogs have survived the danger unharmed.

A Study on Human Characteristics of the Dead of Apartment House Fires

Apartment houses account for majority of Korean houses in terms of housing types. Apartment houses have the second largest number of fire accidents, after detached houses, causing loss of human lives. To reduce the damage to human lives caused by fires in apartment houses, it is important to analyze fundamental relations of death between fire, human, space, and human characteristics, and thereby identify improvement factors. Therefore, this study conducted a factor based cross analysis on human characteristics of the people who died due to fires in apartment houses over the last five years by considering the cause of death, action at the time of death, degree of burns, age, and time of fire occurrence as main factors. Regarding gender, the death rate for women was about 15% higher than that of men. Considering age, most of the fatalities were found in the age groups of 40 to 59 and over 70 years. With regard to the cause of death, the number of deaths caused by burns was higher for men than for women. Therefore, there were main causal relations and differential characteristics in terms of human characteristics of the victims of apartment houses fire.

FIRE DETECTOR SYSTEM WITH WIRELESS COMMUNICATION FOR DOMESTIC USE

The surveillance of home places through sensors and the prevention of problems via prediction are of vital importance for the safety of these areas. Fires usually occur in homes due to inattention and changes in environmental conditions. They cause threats to the residential community and may lead to human death and property damage. Thus, house fires must be detected as early as possible to prevent these types of threats. This study provides a simple design for a wireless fire detection network system. This system is meant to notify the household of a fire occurrence in the house by sending a short message through the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). In order to pre-monitor the possibility of a fire, the Arduino programmed board receives temperatures and humidity levels from sensors. When it detects that the collected data exceeds a predefined and precalculated threshold, it promptly communicates with the wireless system and sends an alert message to the user through the GSM.

RANCANG BANGUN SISTEM PENDETEKSI KEBAKARAN DINI BERBASIS LOGIKA FUZZY MENGGUNAKAN MULTISENSOR

At Indonesia, cases of residential house fires are still rampant. This resulted in considerable losses for the population of Indonesia. If there is no prevention or countermeasure, it is possible that the danger of a house fires will continue. Therefore, this system exists to create a condition where the system is able to detect the potential that will bring a fire hazard. In this system using a method that is the application of a multisensory system in detecting the presence of fire, smoke and temperature in the room. The sensors used include KY-026 fire sensor, MQ-9 smoke sensor and DS18B20 temperature sensor. Then the system also implements an intelligent system that is fuzzy logic to process sensor reading data. The three sensor inputs will be processed through the fuzzification stage, rule evaluation and the deffuzification. The output of this system is in the form of firm values, namely the values 1 to 5 from the results of the multisensory defuzzification in each module. So the error of the defuzzification average is 0.99% after being compared with the MATLAB output. This system is expected to be able to provide early warning of the threat of fire, reduce the risk of casualties, and be able to be implemented to a wider scale or scope.