Improving the Waking Effectiveness of Fire Alarms in Residential Areas

The objective of this study is to find ways of improving the waking effectiveness of fire alarms mainly in residential areas. The main goal is to find out why fatalities are occurring when occupants are sleeping, by analysing sleep characteristics, fire alarm characteristics, human arousal and reaso...

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Main Author: Grace, T
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Civil Engineering 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8271