Project: “New Investments for the Industrialization of ‘SOL’ Products and the ‘Dual-LED Fire Detector’” – Funded by the Marche Region Marche ID 14381)

The project, funded under the call for proposals titled “Engineering, Industrialization of Research Results, and Economic Valorization of Innovation” (2017 Call for Proposals), stems from two research and development activities undertaken during the 2017 fiscal year:

• SOL Project – Wireless Intrusion Detection/Home Automation System
• Project F028_000 HI-TECH: Dual-LED Fire Detector – Dual-Wavelength Optical Smoke Detector

Summary of the SOL Project

SOL is a new family of exclusively wireless intrusion detection and home automation control panels. It joins the two existing families, SmartLiving and Prime are part of hybrid intrusion detection systems (wired and/or wireless). Conceived in the first half of 2017, SOL addresses a clear market need for a fully wireless system in this product segment, offering ease and speed of installation for professionals as well as advanced features for end users.
The project aimed to industrialize the SOL control panel family.

Dual-LED fire alarm

Inim Electronics manufactures and markets a line of smoke detectors for fire detection and alarm systems in buildings (ED100 / ID100 models). The project aims to introduce a new-generation detector to the market with improved characteristics in terms of both response speed and reliability, as well as immunity to false alarms caused by contaminants.
The optical smoke detector produced by Inim Electronics, like most smoke detectors on the market, operates based on the principle of light refraction (also known as the Tyndall effect). The main recognized limitation of detectors of this type is that they trigger an alarm not only in the presence of smoke (and thus products resulting from actual combustion) but also in the presence of contaminants such as steam, dust, insects, etc.
The project aimed to overcome this limitation by using two distinct light sources at different wavelengths.
European Union funding: €192,000.00.