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Civilian Acquirer For Fire Safety (Cafs), Antara Das, Marcus Allen, Clark Shaver
Civilian Acquirer For Fire Safety (Cafs), Antara Das, Marcus Allen, Clark Shaver
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The department of Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) of Pittsburg State University has designed a prototype of an autonomous rover to help firefighters to find lives trapped in a building during an event of fire. The rover prototype has been named CAFS, which is the abbreviated form for Civilian Acquirer for Fire Safety. This device intends to produce the first ever autonomous system to locate, record, and transmit people’s location from within a building to a user outside of the building. According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), on 2017, 72% of the fire that happened in the USA was …