This is the automatic fire extinguisher you need to safeguard your home from fire this summer.
We are facing one of the hottest summers, and in certain parts of the world fires are being experienced that are destroying both our fauna and our flora, and also causing many people to leave their homes that are consumed in flames.
And sometimes an extinguisher is not enough, and if the firefighters are not around, you may need some new technological device that allows you to extinguish the fire near your home, to protect your home.
And now a high school student from San Francisco, Arul mathur, has developed a self-contained heat activated fire extinguishing device called FACE, and that could be translated as a fire-activated canister extinguisher, and that will allow users, in a very simple way, to put out the fires that are reproduced, either inside the home or outside it.
And is that unlike a fire extinguisher, FACE it is totally autonomousIn other words, it is activated automatically when the sensors detect the heat of the nearby fire, creating a kind of water barrier so that the fire cannot advance to that area.
This device is in the form of a metal canister mounted on the wall with an air valve on top, and has a sprinkler on the bottom of it. It contains inside a mixture of water and an ecological fire retardant called Cold Fire.
Its installation is very simple, it is enough to pressurize the cylinder with a manual air pump or an electric compressor, and hang it in a room in our home such as on the wall or outside in the garden. When the fire approaches, the head of the device is activated, dispersing the retardant in a radius of 1.5 m and with a coverage exposure of 360 °.
It is a cheaper and practical alternative to traditional fire extinguishers and includes a mounting bracket that allows it to be mounted in a wide variety of high fire risk areas. It is capable of creating a fire fighting wall if several of these units are placed around a home.
Of course, it is a device that is a prototype, and is that right now it is in a campaign of kickstarter, and if enough support is obtained, it will sell for $ 99 per unit.