In Apliter we have developed an intelligent system for fire prevention and early detection in industrial establishments. With this system, the aim is to detect fires before the appearance of smoke and thus avoid the devastating and deadly effects of fires in industry.

During the first half of 2022, the equivalent of 7 fires a day have broken out in the industrial sector, several of them of great virulence. It is estimated that some thirty of these fires cost more than one million euros. And this means that industry accounts for 27% of total insurance costs. According to the report by UNESPA, the association that represents insurance in Spain, 5.16% of all annual fires occur in industry.

Our intelligent fire prevention system goes by the trade name IRTIMfire. It is based on Infrared Thermography and detects potential fires at a very early stage, before the fire materializes. The intelligent system monitors 24/7 the spaces to be protected and issues the corresponding alarm when it detects an abnormal hot zone.

Traditional detection systems require the presence of smoke or flames to detect a fire, which means that the fire has already materialized. In contrast, the IRTIMfire system only needs an anomalous hot spot to detect a potential fire. This feature gives firefighting services greater leeway to act on the hot spot before it evolves into a fire.

The IRTIMfire architecture consists of a hardware and a software part. Precisely, the software part is the one that has been developed over the last years in APLITER and in which, thanks to the implementation of version one of the system, in two pilot plants, has been able to improve the algorithms of analysis and detection of critical points. The combination of state-of-the-art thermal imaging cameras together with IRTIMfire 's unique algorithms ensures fire prevention by detecting hot spots quickly and reliably, ruling out false positives.

IRTIMfire is the ideal solution for early fire detection in waste treatment companies (MSW, metals, plastics, tires, paper, etc.), processing and storage of raw materials (wood, biomass, grain, coal, fertilizers, etc.), industrial laundries, petrochemical industries.