Abstract: A safety system implemented within a structure includes a source of breathable air, and a fixed piping system to supply the breathable air from the source to each level of a number of levels of the structure. The fixed piping system is implemented in a loop architecture including a first portion proximate the each level of the number of levels and a second portion farther away therefrom. In accordance with the loop architecture, the first portion and the second portion are implemented as a continuous loop with respect to the source of the breathable air such that, even during a compromise of a first sub-portion of the first portion relevant to one or more level(s) of the number of levels proximate thereto, unaffected by the compromise, the breathable air continues to be supplied to a second sub-portion of the first portion by way of the second portion.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and a system of sensor-based smart unlocking of a firefighter air replenishment system. A safety system of an occupiable structure includes a breathable-air supply system to facilitate delivery of breathable air from a source of compressed air, and a fill station in a fire-rated evacuation area of the occupiable structure to supply the breathable air to an emergency personnel. The safety system also includes a smart lock associated with the breathable-air supply system to automatically unlock one or more location(s) of the breathable-air supply system usable by the emergency personnel to access the breathable air during an emergency state of the occupiable structure, and a sensor associated with the breathable-air supply system to detect the emergency state of the occupiable structure.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method, a device and a system of access control and management of one or more component(s) of a safety system related to access of breathable air supplied across the safety system. Based on execution of a computing platform on a data processing device, the computing platform is integrated with one or more sensor(s) associated with the one or more component(s). In accordance with the integration of the computing platform with the one or more sensor(s), the data processing device controls access of the one or more component(s), and captures, in conjunction with the one or more sensor(s), one or more parameter(s) of the access of the one or more component(s) based on the control of the access.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and a safety system implemented within a structure of automatic modification of a rate of filling an air bottle with breathable air in the safety system. In accordance therewith, an air fill charge rate controller device is coupled to the breathable air from a source thereof in the safety system having a fixed piping system installed within the structure for supply of the breathable air across the safety system. A flow rate of the breathable air from the source thereof is detected through a flow sensor associated with the air fill charge rate controller device. In accordance with the detection of the flow rate, a control unit of the air fill charge rate controller device automatically modifies a fill rate at which the air bottle is to be filled with the breathable air.

Abstract: A breathable air supply system within a structure includes a fixed piping system permanently installed therewithin serving as a source of breathable air, and an emergency air fill site communicatively coupled to the fixed piping system to port a regulated, pressurized volume of the breathable air out through a first connector thereof. The first connector is connectably complementary to a second connector of a fire hose configured to carry a fire suppression agent through a first channel thereof. The second connector is communicatively coupled to a second channel of the fire hose separate from the first channel and configured to carry the regulated, pressurized volume of the breathable air therethrough to an SCBA of a user. Connection of the first connector to the second connector supplies the regulated, pressurized volume of the breathable air through the second channel to an end of the fire hose couplable to the SCBA.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method, a device and a system of sensor-based breathable air quality monitoring in a safety system of a structure. In accordance therewith, an air quality analyzer is coupled to a fixed piping system installed within the structure to facilitate delivery of breathable air from a source thereof. The air quality analyzer includes an air sequestration chamber in which a portion of the breathable air is segregated for analysis as an air sample, and one or more sensor(s) to sense one or more air quality parameter(s) from the air sample within the air sequestration chamber. An analysis module of the safety system performs analysis of the sensed one or more air quality parameter(s) based on coupling thereof to the air quality analyzer and transmits data associated with the analysis over a communication link.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and a system of locating an emergency air fill station of a safety system implemented within a structure in low visibility. The safety system includes a source of breathable air, a fixed piping system within the structure for supply of the breathable air from the source across the safety system, and an emergency air fill station coupled to the fixed piping system to provide access to the breathable air therethrough for personnel to fill an air bottle. A sensor in conjunction with a processor detects a visibility parameter in a vicinity of the emergency air fill station. The processor automatically controls a parameter of one or more output device(s) located proximate to and/or on the emergency air fill station in accordance with the detection to aid the personnel in locating the emergency air fill station.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and a safety system of a structure for an air parameter based automatic bypassing of a source of breathable air within the safety system. In accordance therewith, an air analysis device is installed within the safety system along an air flow path of the breathable air from the source thereof. The safety system has a fixed piping system installed within the structure for supply of the breathable air across the safety system. A sensor associated with the air analysis device automatically detects a parameter of the breathable air circulating within the safety system. In response to detecting that the parameter of the breathable air is outside a predetermined threshold value, through a bypass controller device communicatively coupled to the air analysis device, the source of the breathable air is automatically bypassed with respect to the supply of the breathable air across the safety system.

Abstract: A safety system implemented within a structure includes a source of breathable air, and a fixed piping system to supply the breathable air from the source to each interior region of a number of interior regions across the structure. The fixed piping system is implemented in a ringed architecture including a first portion of the fixed piping system proximate the each interior region and a second portion thereof farther away from the each interior region. In accordance with the ringed architecture, the first portion and the second portion are implemented as a continuous ring with respect to the source of the breathable air such that, even during a compromise of a first sub-portion of the first portion, unaffected by the compromise, the breathable air continues to be supplied to a second sub-portion of the first portion by way of the second portion.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and a safety system of a structure for an air/environmental parameter based automatic closing of a valve to isolate breathable air supplied to a level of the structure having the breathable air supplied thereto from a source. In accordance therewith, a parameter of an environment of the level of the structure and/or the breathable air supplied thereto is sensed using a sensor associated with one or more component(s) of the safety system. In response to the sensing, the one or more component(s) automatically closes the valve associated with control of the supply of the breathable air to the level to isolate the breathable air supplied to the level.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and a safety system of a structure for an air parameter based automatic purging of breathable air within the safety system. In accordance therewith, an air analysis device is coupled within the safety system along an air flow path of the breathable air from the source thereof. The safety system has a fixed piping system installed within the structure for supply of the breathable air across the safety system. A sensor associated with the air analysis device senses a parameter of the breathable air within the safety system. In response to an alert signal indicative of the sensed parameter of the breathable air being outside a predetermined threshold value, a valve and/or a vacuum pump within the safety system automatically purges the safety system of at least a portion of the breathable air.

Abstract: An emergency air replenishment system includes an emergency air fill station coupled to a fixed piping system associated with a source of replenishment of breathable air, and an air bottle. The emergency air fill station includes a first connector that is connectably complementary to a second connector of the air bottle. The first connector is couplable to the second connector based on insertion of the second connector thereinto automatically exerting a force along an axial length thereof that automatically translates into a locking element girdling the first connector moving against a linear direction of the exerted force to lock on to the second connector. A volume of the breathable air in the air bottle is filled from the fixed piping system via the emergency air fill station based on the locking of the first connector to the second connector.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method, a device and a system of a block subassembly associated with a component of a safety system of a structure. The block subassembly is provided with one or more input port(s) and one or more output port(s) on a main frame thereof. The block subassembly is coupled to the component of the safety system. The component is configured to receive breathable air from a source within the safety system via a fixed piping system implemented within the structure. Breathable air from the source is routed via the one or more input port(s) to the one or more output port(s) on the main frame of the block subassembly and then into the component of the safety system.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and systems of remote monitoring of a sensor integrated safety system of a structure through a mobile data processing device. In accordance therewith, the mobile data processing device executes a component of a computing platform for the sensor integration therethrough. The mobile data processing device executing the component of the computing platform monitors the safety system and/or one or more components of a number of components thereof remotely based on collecting a number of parameters of the number of components of the safety system and/or of access thereof through detection of the number of parameters via a set of sensors associated with the number of components of the safety system. The number of parameters includes one or more parameter(s) related to breathable air from a source within the safety system supplied thereacross via a fixed piping system implemented therein and/or access of the breathable air.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method, a device and a system of a sensor integrated safety system based computing platform. The computing platform is executed on a data processing device and integrated with a set of sensors associated with components of a safety system In accordance therewith, the data processing device collects a number of parameters of the components of the safety system and/or of access thereof through detection of the number of parameters via the set of sensors. The number of parameters includes one or more parameter(s) related to breathable air from a source within the safety system supplied thereacross via a fixed piping system implemented therein and/or access of the breathable air. The data processing device also monitors the safety system and/or one or more components thereof based on the collected number of parameters.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and a safety system of a structure for automatic switching between sources of breathable air within the safety system in accordance with air parameter based automatic purging of a compromised form thereof. The safety system has a fixed piping system installed within the structure for supply of the breathable air from a source across the safety system. In response to an alert signal indicative of a sensed parameter of the breathable air being outside a predetermined threshold value, a breathable air purging system within the safety system automatically purges the safety system of the breathable air, and a bypass controller device automatically switches to another source of the breathable air to ensure a continued supply of the breathable air via the fixed piping system of the safety system.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and/or a system of incident based camera device activation in a safety system of a structure having a fixed piping system implemented therein to supply breathable air thereacross. In accordance therewith, one or more sensor(s) associated with one or more component(s) of the safety system is integrated with a computing platform executing on a data processing device. Based on the integration of the one or more sensor(s) with the computing platform, one or more environmental parameter(s) of the one or more component(s) of the safety system is sensed. One or more camera device(s) in a vicinity of and/or on the one or more component(s) of the safety system is automatically activated based on determining, from the sensing, occurrence of an incident.

Abstract: A method and/or system of a breathable air safety system for civilians in a building structure in an emergency. In one embodiment, the safety system includes a supply unit of a structure to facilitate delivery of breathable air from a source of compressed air to an air distribution system of the structure, a fill panel of the structure to provide a pressure of the breathable air such that the pressure is suitable for direct human consumption through a breathable air apparatus coupled with the fill panel, and a routing mechanism of the structure to provide a routing between the fill panel and other fill panels of a particular level through at least one of a wall, a ceiling, and a surface of the particular level of the structure. The safety system may include a communication system of the fill panel to enable communication with security services and/or emergency services directly from the fill panel.

Abstract: A breathable air safety system and method is disclosed. In an embodiment, a safety system of a structure includes a supply unit (100) of a structure to facilitate delivery of breathable air from a source of compressed air to an air distribution system (150, 250, 350) of the structure, a valve (408) to prevent leakage of the breathable air from the air distribution system (150, 250, 350) potentially leading to loss of system pressure, a fill station (102A) interior to the structure to provide the breathable air to a breathable air apparatus at multiple locations of the structure, and a distribution structure (104) that is compatible with use with compressed air that facilitates dissemination of the breathable air of the source of compressed air to multiple locations of the structure.

Abstract: Disclosed is an emergency air system and method of a marine vessel. In one embodiment, a method of safety of a marine vessel includes affixing an emergency support system to the marine vessel. In addition, the method includes pressurizing the emergency support system of the marine vessel to facilitate an air extraction process through the marine vessel. The method also includes expediting the air extraction process from the emergency support system by including a rapid fill fitting to a fill panel to fill a breathable air apparatus.