Safer and more cost-effective than a traditional sprinkler system
Saves lives
Detects both smoke and heat, extinguishes with water mist in time to save lives where the fire started
Cost effective
Very simple installation, easy to move and reuse unlike other sprinkler equipment
Environment
10-20% of the amount of water compared to traditional sprinklers, which provides minimal cleaning and the risk of secondary moisture damage
Q-Fog reduces the number of domestic fire deaths in the most at-risk individuals
Approximately 90-100 people die each year in residential fires in Sweden. Older people and people with different types of functional variations are overrepresented in those statistics. Even for some people with mental illness, there is an increased risk of fire, for example, this can be due to indoor smoking and substance abuse.
No more domestic fire deaths
Since 2007, when the system was launched, no one has been injured in a space where a Q-Fog mobile sprinkler is installed according to our instructions.
Number of fatalities in Swedish fires
Said about Q-Fog
A small selection from third parties who are familiar with the problems surrounding residential fires:
Marcus Runefors and Dan Madsen from Fire Dept. at LTH
“- Based on the experiments performed, the overall effectiveness of the detector-activated water mist system can be expected to be higher than traditional sprinkler systems for fires in the protected area..”
Accident investigation after a bed fire, (Jönköping Fire and Rescue Services)
“- If there had been no Q-Fog, there is a great risk that the person would have suffered significant burns, there was also a risk that the staff would not have been able to get into the apartment but had to wait for the emergency services. It is then not possible to rule out that there was then a risk that the apartment owner had not survived. Both the apartment owner and the staff are convinced that without the Q-Fog this would not have ended happily.”
InnoMera, tests of prototype at special housing (Region Örebro)
“- In the future, more people with disabilities will live in their own private homes. The responsibility for fire protection therefore needs to be reviewed, so that together we can prevent residential fires, says Annette Gustafsson, test bed leader from Örebro Municipality.”
Why is water mist so good?
A fire requires access to heat, oxygen and fuel to continue burning. Q2 effectively removes these three components from each other. The fog has a unique ability to absorb heat and water damage is very limited. Even hidden fires can be controlled as the water mist basically fills the entire volume of the room being protected. The extinguishing process mainly consists of four parts:
• Absorption of thermal radiation
• Cooling of the gas in the area around the fire
• Cooling of fuel and potential fire areas
• Reduction of oxygen concentration
There are lives and money to be saved
In Trondheim there was a fire at a nursing home where one person died and the total cost of cleanup and relocation of the business amounted to approximately NOK 11 million. The following year, an identical fire occurred at the same facility where our Q1 was then installed. The person survived without injury and no disturbance occurred in the rest of the business.
We have delivered roughly 2,900 units since the start and far more than 300 activations have taken place, which means that just as many lives have been saved and that damage to buildings has been prevented.
Declaration of Conformity
In order to fulfill our CE approval numerous tests where performed according to appr. 10 different standards. Declaration of Conformity: If more information is of
Valdemarsvik: Care home fire secured
With only two units we protect the entire ground floor with a total of 9 nozzles. We thank Telenta Göteborg for a great team effort
Industry: Protected control room
Where can a fire do the worst damage? In this case the client considered their control room to be the most important asset in their