Kitchen fire suppression system
Two students from the Royal College of Art have won the 2009 James Dyson Award for developing a sprinkler system that has the potential to become a permanent safety feature in the home.
The pair’s Automist design survived four rounds of judging, beating more than 400 projects from 21 countries, and has been chosen by James Dyson as the best project in the award.
As part of the prize, Yusuf Muhammad and Paul Thomas won £10,000 to develop their design further. The same amount of money will also be awarded to their university department to support the development of future projects by other promising students.
Dyson said: ’Smoke alarms are an essential part of modern life but have remained fundamentally unchanged for 40 years. Automist not only detects a fire but can put it out as well.’
The Automist is an automatic fire suppression system designed for the kitchen, where 60 per cent of domestic fires originate. It creates a water mist that works well on both chip-pan and electrical fires. The novelty of the system lies in its modular design, which means it is easy to retrofit.
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