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ONYX FirstVision is a touch-screen PC designed to revolutionize how firefighters and emergency responders navigate and respond to critical situations. It speeds up scene size-up, improves safety, and minimizes property loss. This innovative tool graphically displays active fire alarm devices, hazards, and the best routes to destinations. ONYX FirstVision improves life safety, enhances building occupant safety, and helps first responders locate emergencies quickly and accurately. The audible exit sign directional sound further aids in directing occupants and firefighters to the nearest exit, reducing evacuation times in emergency situations. With intuitive operation and minimal training required, ONYX FirstVision is a game-changer for emergency response teams.
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ONYX FirstVision Defined • Revolutionary navigation tool for firefighters and emergency responders • A touch screen PC that displays critical information: • Origin of a fire • Spread of a fire
Interactive Firefighter’s Display • Used by • Firefighters • First Responders • Speeds Scene Size-Up • Makes emergency operations safer and more effective
Wayfinding Technology • Where you are • Best route to destination • Recognizing the destination • Finding your way back • Graphically displays active fire alarm devices and potential hazards
ONYX FirstVision Benefits • Allows firefighters to quickly locate and extinguish the fire • Improves life safety for building occupants and firefighters • Reduces the risk of property loss
FirstVision Benefits • Responder immediately sees where the emergency is located and where he/she is in reference to the fire • Response team can be mobilized immediately to the proper area via the safest route • Indicates location of hazardous materials and structural hazards (e.g. bar joists and tension cables) Improves firefighter and emergency responder safety
FirstVision Benefits • Responders plan the safest escape route for occupants to minimize occupant exposure to fire or smoke • Lists occupancy levels during the day versus evening so firefighters can quickly estimate the number of occupants Improves building occupant safety
FirstVision Benefits • Identifies exactly where in the building the emergency originated • Displays time sequenced activated detectors to show the fire progression • Firefighters have the information to make accurate decisions about where to first send a response team Reduces the risk of property loss
FirstVision Benefits • Wall-mounted in a building lobby or entrance to make it immediately accessible to fire personnel • Cabinet door unlocks automatically upon alarm so no key is required from a Knox Box or similar secure enclosure Immediately accessible on scene
Scene Size-Up Questions • What smoke/heat devices are active? • Where in the structure did the fire start? • When did the fire start? • How long have the devices been in alarm? • How is the fire progressing? • Sequence of detector activation • What hazards exist? • Chemical storage • Physical hazards; airshafts, elevators, etc.
Locations • Building Entrances • Offices • Malls • Manufacturing Facilities • Warehouses
Simple to Use and Install • 100% intuitive - initial assessment in 30-60 seconds • No training required for firefighters • Minimal interaction, maximum information – from a single screen • Touch screen, big buttons • Easy-to-deploy • Import existing floor plans
Directional Sound Defined Directional Sounder – an audible means of identifying exits & egress routes to provide a means of overcoming the limitations of current exit signage and alarm signals (omni-directional sound)
What is the purpose of directional sound? • Directs occupants and firefighters to the nearest exit • Pulsating, broadband sound is distinctive from the audible sounds of bells, horns, or voice speakers
How is this different than our current systems? • Fire Alarm vs. “Directional Sound” technology • Fire Alarm (Detection & Alerting) • Early detection • Warn of imminent danger • Provide notification / warning via bells, horns, strobes, electronic sounders • “Directional Sound” (Exit Marking) • Audible sound to locate exits (or exit paths) • Equivalence to Low Location Lighting not fire alarm sounder • Different Types of Systems!
Why is directional sound necessary? • Human Behavior phenomena • Occupants exit a building by a route familiar to them – the way they came in • “learned irrelevance” – people seldom consider the information that is conveyed via exit signs or evacuation maps/floor plans Directional sound reduces these tendencies
What are the benefits of directional sound? • Not intended to replace, but compatible with standard fire alarms • Focus is providing additional sound cues to assist occupants in locating the nearest exit • ‘Attention capturing capability” overcomes issues of ‘learned irrelevance’ of exit signs • Sound travels around corners avoids issues of line-of-sight methods (e.g. exit signs) • Sound independent of language • Provides cues in adverse conditions of smoke or other low visibility condition • Significant benefit to the visually impaired Reduces evacuation times by up to 75% in smoke, 35% in clear visibility
How does it work – Broadband Sound *Between 2-3KHz is the frequency which is most sensitive to the human hearing and where all alarm sounders are placed. 500Hz 3.5KHz Human speech 20Hz 1KHz 3KHz 5KHz 20KHz All 3 cues are required for accurate localization Low Mid High Between 1-3KHz gives no location cues.
Installations • Children’s Museum • Off-campus dormitories • Department store • Day-care center • School for the blind • Government buildings • Mines • Office buildings
