Wall-mounted spray head unit
A wall-mountable spray head unit for delivering a fire suppressant liquid is disclosed. The spray head unit includes a rotatable spray head assembly having a spray manifold rotatable about a first axis, and a spray nozzle supported by the spray manifold and orientated to deliver fire-suppressant material radially in a plane defined by the first axis and a second axis which is perpendicular to the first axis. The spray head unit also includes one or more fire-locating, sensors including a visible-light camera, a microphone, or both.
1. A wall-mountable spray head unit comprising:
a rotatable spray head assembly which comprises:
a spray manifold rotatable about a first axis; and
a spray nozzle supported by the spray manifold and orientated to deliver fire-suppressant material radially in a plane defined by the first axis and a second axis which is perpendicular to the first axis;
one or more fire-locating sensors;
at least one output device including a first output device, wherein the at least one output device is integrated into a faceplate of the wall-mountable spray head unit;
a controller configured to cause the first output device to output real-time information; and
at least one input device including a first input device integrated into the faceplate, wherein the spray head unit is configured to cease deployment of the fire-suppressant material in response to a user input to the first input device within a pre-set period.
2. The spray head unit of claim 1 , wherein the first output device ( 35 ) is a display.
3. The spray head unit of claim 1 , wherein the real-time information includes a current time and/or a weather report.
4. The spray head unit of claim 1 , wherein the real-time information includes information regarding a system check.
5. The spray head unit of claim 1 , wherein the real-time information includes exit directions.
6. The spray head unit of claim 1 , wherein the real-time information includes a heat map ( 45 ).
7. The spray head unit of claim 6 , wherein the real-time information includes an image of the room and a heat map of the room.
8. The spray head unit of claim 1 , having different modes and the controller is operable to output different information in different modes.
9. The spray head unit of claim 1 , wherein the first input device ( 37 ) comprises a push button or a touch switch, or a touch screen.
10. The spray head unit of claim 1 , configured to determine whether a user, in response to a prompt, has provided an input to the first input device.
11. The spray head unit of claim 10 , wherein the spray head unit is configured to determine whether the user, in response to the prompt, has provided the input to the first input device within a given time period.
12. The spray head unit of claim 1 , comprising: a controller configured to cause deployment of fire-suppressant material in response to a trigger, wherein a threshold for the trigger depends on an angle of rotation of the spray manifold.
13. The spray head unit of claim 1 , comprising:
a controller configured to deploy fire-suppressant material in response to a triggering event at a first angular position, wherein the controller is configured to deploy the fire-suppressant material at a second, different, predetermined angular position before the first angular position.
14. The spray head unit of claim 13 , wherein a subject or article of importance is located at the second, different angular position.
15. The spray head unit of claim 1 , wherein the second, different angular position intersects the first angular position and a third angular position at which a subject or article is located.
16. A system comprising:
the wall-mountable spray head unit of claim 1 ;
wherein the one or more fire-locating sensors including a thermal sensor, wherein the room is scannable with the thermal sensor so as to generate a heat map of the room.
17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the first output device is
a display, wherein the wall-mountable spray head unit is configured to show the heat map.
18. A wall-mountable spray head unit comprising:
a rotatable spray head assembly which comprises:
a spray manifold rotatable about a first axis; and
a spray nozzle supported by the spray manifold and orientated to deliver fire-suppressant material radially in a plane defined by the first axis and a second axis which is perpendicular to the first axis; and
one or more fire-locating sensors including a visible-light camera, or a microphone, or both a visible-light camera and a microphone;
at least one output device including a first output device, wherein the at least one output device is integrated into a faceplate of the wall-mountable spray head unit;
a controller configured to cause the first output device to output real-time information; and
at least one input device including a first input device integrated into the faceplate, wherein the spray head unit is configured to cease deployment of the fire-suppressant material in response to a user input to the first input device within a pre-set period.
19. The spray head unit of claim 18 , wherein the one or more fire-locating sensors includes a thermal sensor.
20. The spray head unit of claim 18 , wherein at least one of the one or more fire-locating sensors is/are directed in the plane.
21. The spray head unit of claim 20 , wherein all of the one or more fire-locating sensors is/are directed in the plane.
22. The spray head unit of claim 18 , wherein the one or more fire-locating sensors is/are mounted on the spray manifold so as to move with the spray nozzle.
23. The spray head unit of claim 18 , wherein the first axis is a substantially vertical axis and the plane is a substantially vertical plane.
24. The spray head unit of claim 18 , wherein the spray manifold is only rotatable about the first axis.
25. The spray head unit of claim 18 , wherein the visible-light camera comprises a lens and a hydrophobic coating on the lens.
26. A wall-mountable spray head unit comprising:
a rotatable spray head assembly which comprises:
a spray manifold rotatable about a first axis; and
a spray nozzle supported by the spray manifold and orientated to deliver fire-suppressant material radially in a plane defined by the first axis and a second axis which is perpendicular to the first axis;
one or more fire-locating sensors;
a controller configured to cause deployment of fire-suppressant material in response to a trigger, wherein a threshold for the trigger depends on an angle of rotation of the spray manifold;
at least one output device including a first output device, wherein the at least one output device is integrated into a faceplate of the wall-mountable spray head unit, and wherein the controller is configured to cause the first output device to output real-time information; and
at least one input device including a first input device integrated into the faceplate, wherein the spray head unit is configured to cease deployment of the fire-suppressant material in response to a user input to the first input device within a pre-set period.
27. A wall-mountable spray head unit comprising:
a rotatable spray head assembly which comprises:
a spray manifold rotatable about a first axis; and
a spray nozzle supported by the spray manifold and orientated to deliver fire-suppressant material radially in a plane defined by the first axis and a second axis which is perpendicular to the first axis;
one or more fire-locating sensors;
a controller configured to deploy fire-suppressant material in response to a triggering event occurring at a first angular position, wherein the controller is configured to deploy the fire-suppressant material at a second, different, angular position before the first angular position and/or before a third, different angular position;
at least one output device including a first output device, wherein the at least one output device is integrated into a faceplate of the wall-mountable spray head unit, wherein the controller is configured to cause the first output device to output real-time information; and
at least one input device including a first input device integrated into the faceplate, wherein the spray head unit is configured to cease deployment of the fire-suppressant material in response to a user input to the first input device within a pre-set period.
28. A system comprising:
a wall-mountable spray head unit comprising:
a rotatable spray head assembly which comprises:
a spray manifold rotatable about a first axis; and
a spray nozzle supported by the spray manifold and orientated to deliver fire-suppressant material radially in a plane defined by the first axis and a second axis which is perpendicular to the first axis;
one or more fire-locating sensors for locating a fire in a room, the one or more fire-locating sensors including a thermal sensor, wherein the room is scannable with the thermal sensor so as to generate a heat map of the room;
at least one output device including a first output device, wherein the at least one output device is integrated into a faceplate of the wall-mountable spray head unit;
a controller configured to cause the first output device to output real-time information; and
at least one input device including a first input device integrated into the faceplate, wherein the spray head unit is configured to cease deployment of the fire-suppressant material in response to a user input to the first input device within a pre-set period.
29. The system of claim 28 , wherein the wall-mountable spray head unit further comprises:
a network interface for transmitting the heat map to a remote location.
30. The system of claim 28 , further comprising:
a server configured to store the heat map and to serve the heat map to a client device.