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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2014
Kidde Technologies, Inc., Wilson, NC (US);
Josephine Gabrielle Gastonides, Dunstable, GB;
Paul Alan Rennie, Bracknell, GB;
Paul David Smith, Camberley, GB;
KIDDE TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Wilson, NC (US);
Abstract
A fire detection system for an aircraft, freight transportation vehicle or freight storage facility comprises one or more RFID tags associated with one or more items of freight being transported or stored. The RFID tag is configured to detect a condition indicative of a fire in or in the vicinity the item of freight, for example a temperature rise or generation of smoke. One or more RFID readers are arranged to read the RFID tags. The RFID reader is connected to or forms part of a control system, the RFID reader or the control determining whether the RFID tag has detected a fire.