ALERTWING
Fire-related emergencies are most dangerous at night when people are asleep. Standard smoke alarms primarily use high-pitched auditory signals to alert individuals. While effective for many, these alarms often fail to wake deep sleepers and can be completely ineffective for individuals who are hard of hearing. In these cases, every second of delayed response significantly increases the risk of injury or fatality due to smoke inhalation and rapid fire spread.
Goal:
Cut nighttime fire fatalities by reliably waking and guiding people to safety, especially heavy sleepers, people hard of hearing, and children.
Ideation
Design Direction
Final Concept
AlertWing is a fire-emergency drone that docks discreetly in a bedroom ceiling and links to all household smoke detectors. When smoke is detected, it drops from its dock, spins up with strobe lights/siren/airflow to wake the sleeper, confirms wakefulness through on-board sensors, and then leads the person along the safest exit route using lights and audio navigation.
“Follow me down the hall.”
Smoke is detected; drone is released
Drone docked in ceiling
Oncer user is awake, the drone guides them to safety
Drone flies down to user to wake up
