NYC Fire Extinguisher Business Show How Analytics Help Firefighters Track Potential Hot Spots
Posted 30 May-2022 03:36 PM by Jack
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Brooklyn, NY (pressreleasepower ) May 30, 2022 - New York City-based fire extinguisher sales and inspection businesses, such as Brooklyn's Ace Fire Extinguisher, have been speaking out on how the city is fighting fires with data, citing analytics that help FDNY firefighters track potential "hot spots." The New York City Fire Department has been using the Risk-Based Inspection System (RBIS), an Oracle-oriented
program with data-mining capabilities, to better anticipate where fires
may actually spark, with the centerpiece of the tool being FireCast,
an algorithm that organizes data from the five city agencies into
approximately 60 risk factors - which are then used to create lists of
buildings, including NYC businesses, most vulnerable to fire.
"Complex,
analytics-driven programs have created a whirlwind of 'smart'
technologies to help modernize manual tasks and make jobs more
efficient, and this is now helping firefighters in New York City get a
jump on battling blazes, too," states Jack Shammah, owner of Ace
Fire Extinguisher. "We have been supporting these efforts, notably
alerting our business owner clients in the city, acknowledging that RBIS provides an inspection data warehouse the entire FDNY can access.
"Instead
of being broken up among the city's 49 fire companies, any unit can now
look up the latest information about when buildings and structures were
last inspected."
Companies like Ace have been regularly
studying the RBIS protocol, coming to learn that it excels at
coordinating inspection activities for the FDNY's operational units.
With each unit performing 26 different inspection types for the
approximately 350,000 buildings in the city, the process is now highly
streamlined, given that multiple tasks were all originally tracked on
clipboards.
"One can imagine how cumbersome that can become and how difficult it is to manage," adds Shammah. "This
system digitally coordinates all of that and understands various
business rules; as a result, we have a system that automates the FDNY's entire
inspection workflow, collecting statistics from the inspections and
helping management supervise inspections while meeting internal goals."
Though RBIS and FireCast are proprietary in nature, the FDNY has presented its system to fire departments nationwide.
Ace Fire Extinguisher is located at 666 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222 and can be reached by calling (718) 608-6428. For more information visit https://acefireextinguishers.com/.
ACE Fire Extinguishers
666 Morgan Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11222
(718) 608-6428
Monday - Friday
Open 8am ¢ Closes 8pm
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