Automated Reconfiguable Intelligent Radio (ARIR)

Williams-Pyro, Inc. proposes to develop an Automated Reconfigurable Intelligent Radio (ARIR), which consists of a series of distributed nodes that will relay voice and data to Intelligent Access Points (IAP) located within the building. This system will allow faster, more accurate information transmission, resulting in timely fire detection and safer firefighting. The main goal of ARIR is to identify how a real-time channel within the distributed system can be enhanced at a moderate cost to be immune to any single component failure within the channel. The basic structure of the ARIR consists of neural networks for failure diagnosis and fault prognosis, as well as a new Discrete Event Controller based on matrices (U.S. patent) for dynamic real-time network reconfiguration and resource assignment. This failure analysis/network reconfiguration supervisor will be distributed in nature, consisting of multiple redundant subsystems. The proposed innovation will allow the creation of self-forming nodes that can expand and contract on demand, extend into damaged areas with unknown infrastructures, support firefighters with no/short notice, and communicate between ad-hoc elements of the platform as needed.