This SpringerBrief presents cutting-edge research on an important aspect of smart firefighting
which will improve performance safety prediction and resilience. It demonstrates the
viability of real-time decision support for smart firefighting and provides validation data for
continued cyber-physical system (CPS) development by using a smart networked fire test bed
consisting of a multi-story instrumented building a variety of fire and non-fire networked
sensors and a computational framework anchored by a Building Information Modeling (BIM)
representation of the building. The author conducted well-controlled full-scale fire
experiments and represents them in the three-dimensional BIM allowing for visualization of
critical static and dynamic building and fire information. The CPS test bed produces clear
evidence about the opportunities for fire safety created by the communication between sensors
BIM and fire. When applied to fire protection CPS fuses the emerging sensor and computing
technologies with building control systems firefighting equipment and apparatus. This
SpringerBrief reveals some of the key ways CPS makes firefighting safer and more efficient.
