Countless fire accidents occur around the world every year, resulting in many casualties and property damage. Although China has developed fire design, installation, and acceptance standards that are in line with its national conditions by referring to the fire safety regulations of advanced countries after the reform and opening up, fires that cause casualties and property damage still occur from time to time. After investigation, it was found that some fire accidents occurred because the fire-fighting facilities were not well managed and properly maintained, resulting in the failure to report to the police or initiate fire extinguishing in a timely manner, which continued to spread the fire. Therefore, for buildings, regardless of how their fire protection design meets regulatory requirements and how complete their fire protection facilities are, the lack of proper management and regular or frequent maintenance may result in malfunctions that cannot effectively extinguish fires when they occur. It can be seen that the daily management and maintenance of fire-fighting facilities are of great significance.

Enterprises and units have realized this issue, purchased fire-fighting equipment, registered fire-fighting equipment, established personnel inspection and scrapping replacement systems, to a certain extent, ensuring the usability of fire-fighting equipment. However, it cannot be denied that due to the lack of effective information management and supervision measures, there are actually significant loopholes in daily inspection management, with many areas of imperfect management, heavy inventory work, inadequate inspections, equipment loss and other problems, which have laid a great safety hazard.

It is urgent to use advanced information technology, strengthen information management capabilities, enhance supervision of inspection processes, improve the management level of the entire fire equipment, and eliminate safety hazards.

RFID technology is a non-contact automatic identification technology that does not require manual intervention during the identification process and can work in various harsh environments. RFID has uniqueness and can recognize high-speed moving objects while simultaneously identifying multiple tags. Therefore, applying RFID technology to the management of fire-fighting equipment can make equipment management easy and simple, avoid data errors and time consumption caused by manual operation and recording, solve the problems in the existing management mode, and provide guarantees for the safe use of fire-fighting equipment.

The fire equipment management system based on RFID technology installs RFID electronic tags on fire equipment, binds corresponding asset information in the background, and accurately obtains detailed information of assets through the collection of RFID electronic tag information at key nodes and processes.

The basic framework diagram of the system is as follows

Attach passive RFID tags to all firefighting equipment within the jurisdiction, which have memory to record the purchase time, expiration time, installation time, responsible person, inspection frequency, and other information of the firefighting equipment.

During the inspection, the fire management department will generate an inspection plan in the system and notify the relevant personnel of each unit in the form of SMS, reminding them to carry out the inspection of fire equipment. At the same time, the plan can also be downloaded to the specific executor's mobile data collection terminal. Each unit's inspection personnel and management unit's sampling personnel are equipped with a mobile data collection terminal, which can communicate with RFID tags on various fire-fighting equipment and also with the upper computer (management computer). Each inspector receives the inspection plan from the management department and scans (reads) each fire-fighting equipment in sequence. At this time, an inspection record will be formed in the handheld device. If the equipment is found to be damaged or malfunctioning, the inspector will make the corresponding selection on the handheld device and save it in the inspection record.

Each sampling personnel receives the sampling plan from the management department and then arrives at the designated unit to read the various fire-fighting equipment of the unit in sequence. At this time, an inspection record will be formed in the handheld device. If the equipment is found to be damaged or malfunctioning, the sampling personnel will make the corresponding selection on the handheld device and save it in the sampling record.

The management department obtains relevant record data from various units, conducts statistics, analysis, and forms various reports. Based on different inspection records, it supervises the responsible units to carry out relevant maintenance or replacement work, and completes the supervision of fire equipment in various areas.