FIRELATOR SYSTEM

The opportunity.
Due to government legislation, within the next five years, it will be mandatory for households in the Netherlands to have a fire extinguisher installed. This will create the opportunity to integrate the fire extinguisher and the interior in an elegant and intelligent manner. The current generation of fire extinguishers within the norm are designed for functional use only and do not take their environment into account. So we asked ourselves: How can we provide a fire safety system to a common home in an intelligent and elegant way?

The system
The system consists of several components which "intelligently" communicate with each other. One of the components is the fire extinguisher.

The fire extinguisher
The flower shaped extinguisher should be placed near the exit/entrance of the house. The extinguisher is easy to use. Unlock by pulling out the lock strip, grab the handle with one hand and support the extinguisher with the other hand, point at the fire and pull the lever. The lever mechanism is released by pulling out the lock strip. Pulling the lever will activate the fire extinguisher. The extinguisher consists of a standard aluminum 2 kg powder tank in a flame-retardant casting made of translucent polyurethane.

The concept FIRELATOR SYSTEM has been developed by the above mentioned three companies. Three companies that are located on the same second floor of the BACINOL building in Delft, The Netherlands. These companies with different skills, have one important skill in common: Creativity. This creativity, which came forward during our daily lunch sessions, made us realize the potential we had in joining our forces. We decided that competing in the RED-DOT design competition was just the thing for us. This turned out to be the right decision.