Design and Fabrication of a Fire Fighting Drone

Abstract

Fire is a disaster that can occur from different natural causes and from manmade causes. Generally, natural fires are the wildfires that occur due to global warming caused by human beings. Generally, the manmade causes are focused on as the fire at homes and industries cause a lot of damage which may be beyond repair sometimes. So to minimize the loss caused by the fires every nation has a firefighting unit that puts emphasis on extinguishing fires and saving our lives and property. Firefighting is done by humans and fire extinguishers which have been operated manually throughout these years. This manual system puts many firefighters in danger and takes a lot of time to extinguish the fire, as a result, the amount of damage increase with time and practically It is not easy for a human to enter the hazardous place and find the victims so Fire Fighting Drone is the best solution to find out the victims and also to control the fire. Fighting drones can approach though airways and can save a lot of time as well as loss of health and wealth. Recently we came to cross the globe to know that 1449 firefighters were injured trying to fight fires and trying to save people. So to reduce this loss of health and precious human life our project will put much more emphasis to extinguish the fire in a short period of time and replacing our valuable human lives by becoming operators of the drones in remote areas. In 2019, the number of reported fire incidents was 24,078, and estimated damages were 330.04 million (in BDT), which caused 184 deaths and 560 injuries in Bangladesh. We designed the drone keeping some of the key factors in minds such as cost of production, technology availability, nonhazardous, performance, durability, and appearance. We design the layout of the drone using SolidWorks and design the basic flow diagrams and circuit diagrams using Microsoft PowerPoint and words. We analyzed the flight of the drone using two types of propellers basically 8” and 10” and calculated the payload and analyzed the data of errors found on the transmitter while different experimental flights were done.