HOME FLAME DETECTORS

Home Flame Detectors :
A Game Changer in Home Fire Saftey.

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Immediately detects flames, sends alarm & push notifications to your mobile device.

Developed by a leading-edge team of scientists and fire detection engineers, our ground-breaking residential Flame Detector is the only product of it's kind on the market today. Designed to detect open flame, our state-of-the-art flame detectors respond to flame instantly, alerting you to fire much faster and helping prevent devastating fires from occurring. Learn more about how Flame Detectors work.

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Our easy-to-use Flame Detector App manages all your devices in one spot. With instant push notifications and local audible alarms, keep your family safe with flame detector technology.

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HOW FLAME DETECTION WORKS

Residential Flame Detection - A Game Changer In Home Safety.
Within The United States Last Year, There Were 353,000 Reported Home Fires.

SMOKE DETECTORS VS. FLAME DETECTORS*

Today’s home fire protection is significantly dependent on smoke detection. For the past 60 years, smoke detection, which varies from flame detection technology in many fundamental ways, has been accomplished with one or two technologies (ionization or photoelectric and sometimes a combination of the two). Both technologies rely on a fire to create a sufficient amount of smoke particles that need to travel from the source of the fire to a physical barrier (the ceiling) and into the smoke detectors plastic housing. Once smoke enters the detectors plastic housing, the smoke needs to reach the detectors internal sensor. If this happens, the smoke causes a change to the sensor and that change is detected by the detectors electronics to initiate an alarm. With 98% of all homes having smoke detectors, you are most likely familiar with these devices. The process of detecting a fire with these technologies leaves a number of questions that can’t be answered with specificity such as:

• How much smoke will a fire produce?
• What speed will the smoke travel to the smoke detector?
• Will the smoke particle size and color from the fire be most accommodating to the technology used by the smoke detector?

Complicating the answers even more, most smoke detectors have a directional dependency meaning that the smoke entering the smoke detector from one direction will likely be detected faster than smoke entering from another direction. Given all of these unanswerable questions and the yearly increases in per capita fire deaths in the USA (despite a completely saturated smoke detector market), there needs to be a more reliable and faster way to detect fire and that's where the Flame Detector from our team here at Forge Technologies comes in.

*For purposes of readability and general understanding, we refer to them as smoke detectors when in reality the industry refers to these devices as smoke alarms. There are nuances in the definitions that are not relevant for the purposes herein.

FLAME DETECTORS

Historically, flame detectors have been used in high fire hazard industrial applications (refineries and oil rigs for example) where instant notification of a flame is absolutely necessary. These Flame Detector devices are built to withstand those extreme environments and cost thousands of dollars. Obviously, these would not be feasible in a residential environment. However, the desire to know about fire the instant it occurs is just as, or even more, desirable in your home than anywhere else.

Now, flame detection technology is available for residential use. A new, first-to-market Home Flame Detector is now available that can significantly improve the speed at which you become aware of a fire. This revolutionary new home flame detector utilizes a novel flame sensing approach that senses ultraviolet light. The home flame detector sensor is “tuned” to detect a specific wavelength of light emitted by a flame. More specifically, ultraviolet waveband C (UVC) has particular advantages because there is no background radiation to differentiate against. Although the sun produces UVC, none of it reaches the earth's surface due to absorption in the stratospheric ozone layer and modern electric lights do not produce emission in this waveband. Our glbal first, our Home Flame Detectors utilize a special UVC sensor to sense this very specific wavelength of light.

THE UV SENSOR FOR HOME FLAME DETECTION

The UVC emission from a flame has about one trillionth of the intensity of visible emission and to detect it requires a special type of UV sensor. The sensors in all of our Home Flame Detector models are capable of responding to single photons of UVC light without responding to any other wavelengths of light. It achieves this by utilizing the Photo-Electric Effect at the cathode which states that a photon with sufficiently short wavelength can liberate an electron from a metallic cathode, photons of longer wavelength light do not. This electron can be collected by applying an electric field between the cathode and a second electrode called the anode. In our proprietary Home Flame Detector sensors, the gap between the anode and the cathode is less than a millimeter and the voltage applied between the two electrodes is several hundred volts. This very rapidly accelerates the electrons freed by the Photo-Electric Effect towards the anode. The two electrodes, cathode and anode, are sealed into a UV transmitting glass tube which has been evacuated and then filled with a very low pressure of a gas such as neon. As the electron travels towards the anode, it will collide with a neon atom and knock an electron from the atom to leave behind an ion and a newly freed electron. This process recurs many times amplifying a single electron into a multitude of electrons all heading for the anode.

When the electrons reach the anode in our Home Flame Detector, the combination of free electrons and neon ions create a conductive path between the two electrodes allowing a significant electrical current to flow from the storage capacitor, through the flame detection sensor and the pulse detection circuit. This current discharges the Storage Capacitor meaning that the voltage between the electrodes collapses which extinguishes the discharge and terminates the current flow. The result is that a single photon of UVC is converted to a measurable single current pulse which may be counted. Once the discharge is extinguished the sensor is no longer capable of detecting a UV photon until the voltage on the Storage Capacitor is regenerated. If this is done repeatedly after each discharge then the UVC exposure of the cathode is converted into a series of electrical pulses with the pulse rate determined by the UVC intensity.

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HOME FLAME DETECTORS IN SUMMARY

Our Home Flame Detectors are not intended to replace smoke detectors. Smoke detectors have been around for many decades, but the detection means has not changed. With the addition of a Home Flame Detector, the potential added time to detect a fire in a space is tremendous. This makes sense given that our flame detection sensors detect flame at the speed of light (186,000,000 miles per second) removing the need to answer the difficult questions surrounding smoke detectors. In real fire tests, our Home Flame Detectors were able to detect, alarm and notify sooner than any of the 6 most common smoke detectors in all fire scenarios created. The difference in time to detect a fire was EXTREME, some smoke detectors did not alarm for more than 5 minutes after the fire was detected by our flame sensors and some smoke detectors never did alarm. This is why our team is excited to bring the first ever Flame Detector to the residence. In general, our flame detectors will detect a ¾” flame at 20 feet away in 2 seconds or less. Home Flame Detector should be used in every space in the home you never want a flame. Other notable advantages of our flame detectors include immunity to false alarms that plague smoke detectors which can produce false alarms form dust, insects, steam and cooking.

Adding to the sophisticated flame detecting technology, other benefits include:

Common AA batteries that power your Home Flame Detector(s) for about a year.
Audio that produces a loud alarm the instant a flame is detected in your home.
An app (iOS and Android) that will notify your smart devices of the flame and it’s location whithin your home - instantly!
Electronic supervision that notifies you of low battery conditions, and malfunctions in your Flame Detector via push notifications.
A design that accommodates home aesthetics by not having a cord, a cloth cover and multiple mounting options including simply setting your Home Flame Detector unit on a shelf.

SENSITIVE FLAME SENSOR
Sensor detects ¾” flame at 20 feet within 2 seconds
SEES THE WHOLE ROOM
130 degrees of coverage
GET NOTIFIED
Notifications to your phone as well as a loud local alarm
STOP NUISANCE ALARMS
Flame Sensors aren’t activated by burnt toast, steam, or dust
WIFI
Easily add other Home Flame Detector units for whole-house protection
LONG BATTERY LIFE
Runs on 3 AA batteries for over a year

HOME FLAME DETECTOR FUNCTIONS

Our Home Flame Detectors have 4 main functional blocks as described below:

A Control and Communication Block (CCB) that enables all of the other blocks and handles all external communication. This block has WiFi capabilities for wireless communication, it controls a series of warning and information LEDs, it has a serial communication port to communicate with external devices and it has a sound processor with files containing information messages and the sound files for warning sirens. This block receives a flame detected signal and takes the appropriate actions.
A Process Control Block (PCB) that is responsible for counting the current pulses produced by the UV sensor block and running a set of algorithms to determine if a flame has been detected. When that happens it sends a flame detected signal to the CCB and then continues to monitor the UV sensor until the flame has gone. This block contains a 30Hz timebase that controls its function and at the end of every timebase period it checks the Current Pulse Monitor to determine if a photon has been detected and then issues a Recharge instruction to the High Voltage Block to recharge the Storage Capacitor of the UV Sensor Block. This process continues indefinitely until halted by the CCB.
A UV Sensor Block (UVSB) comprising the UVTron sensor, a high voltage storage capacitor and a Pulse Current Measurement Circuit. The UV sensor functions as described earlier to convert UV photons into current pulses which can be detected by the PCB.
A High Voltage Block incorporates a switch which when activated by the PCB will apply a high Voltage to the Storage Capacitor of the UVSB and then immediately disconnect after the capacitor has fully charged. These main blocks plus a few ancillary parts make up a complete Home Flame Detector unit which can constantly monitor the local environment for a flame and signal this is a variety of ways for as long as the flame is present. Our Home Flame Detector units also have measurement capabilities to monitor a flame for changes in UVC intensity.

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HOME FLAME DETECTORS -
KEEP YOUR HOME AND FAMILY SAFE AND SECURE.

Smoke alarms work by detecting small particles of combustion (smoke) that must travel into the smoke alarm’s sensing chamber before alarming. If those particles cannot or do not find their way into the sensing chamber, it will not alarm. A Flame Detector on the other hand, constantly monitors for the presence of flame in your home and works by detecting a narrow band of ultraviolet light produced by the flame. The moment the flame is seen by our Home Flame Detector sensor, you’re notified. It’s that simple!

HOW HOME FLAME DETECTORS WORK

HOME FLAME DETECTION - USE WHERE FLAMES
SHOULD NEVER BE

Kids Rooms • Laundry Rooms • Offices
Garages • Workshops • Play Areas

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Flame detectors for children's playrooms.

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Download our Flame Detector app for your mobile device to set up your products and adjust your settings.

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Forge Technologies is dedicated to revolutionizing the home safety industry. With a leading-edge team of scientists and fire detection engineers and more than 100 years of combined experience developing hazard detection products, Forge is dedicated to developing innovative products that harness science, technology, and the convenience of smart home.

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