A new era for video smoke detection?

Published: 07 July, 2010

Smoke and flame detection using video analytics has been around for about 14 years, during which time the technology has found a useful niche in aircraft hangars, turbine halls, and road tunnels. Jose Maria Sanchez de Muniain talks to the man often dubbed by others in the industry as “the father of video smoke detection”, and to a company that is poised to take the technology to a whole new level of applications and ease of installation, where VSD will be available off-the-shelf and without the need for specialist cameras – or indeed specialist installation personnel.

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