{"id":221864,"date":"2025-09-14T08:06:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/ai-system-leverages-standard-security-cameras-to-detect-fires-in-seconds"},"modified":"2025-09-14T08:06:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:06:46","slug":"ai-system-leverages-standard-security-cameras-to-detect-fires-in-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/ai-system-leverages-standard-security-cameras-to-detect-fires-in-seconds","title":{"rendered":"AI system leverages standard security cameras to detect fires in seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-system-leverages-standard-security-cameras-to-detect-fires-in-seconds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fire kills nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfpa.org\/education-and-research\/research\/nfpa-research\/fire-statistical-reports\/fire-loss-in-the-united-states\" target=\"_blank\">3,700 Americans annually and destroys $23 billion in property<\/a>, with many deaths occurring because traditional smoke detectors fail to alert occupants in time.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the NYU Fire Research Group at NYU Tandon School of Engineering has developed an artificial intelligence system that could significantly improve <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/fire+safety\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fire safety<\/a> by detecting fires and smoke in <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/real-time\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">real-time<\/a> using ordinary security cameras already installed in many buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Published in the <i>IEEE Internet of Things<\/i>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/11127189\/\" target=\"_blank\">research<\/a> demonstrates a system that can analyze <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/video+footage\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">video footage<\/a> and identify fires within 0.016 seconds per frame\u2014faster than the blink of an eye\u2014potentially providing crucial extra minutes for evacuation and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/emergency+response\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">emergency response<\/a>. Unlike conventional smoke detectors that require significant smoke buildup and proximity to activate, this AI system can spot fires in their earliest stages from video alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire kills nearly 3,700 Americans annually and destroys $23 billion in property, with many deaths occurring because traditional smoke detectors fail to alert occupants in time. Now, the NYU Fire Research Group at NYU Tandon School of Engineering has developed an artificial intelligence system that could significantly improve fire safety by detecting fires and smoke [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}