VARUNA: The Remote-Controlled Fire Fighter Robot

Fire accidents can take innumerable lives and cause fatal damage to residential, commercial, and industrial properties if not controlled in time. To address this issue and to ensure proper fire extinguishing and to control fire in time, there is the need of designing a system that is portable and could be easily carried along by the single person and can be assembled on the spot to assist the firefighters which makes it an advanced system. In this paper, a concept of portable firefighting robot named Varuna is put forward and developed. Varuna refers to the god of sea and rain according to Vedic literature. This robot uses water to extinguish fire, hence the name Varuna. It has the competence to traverse uneven surfaces and floors inside buildings. It can provide the live streaming video describing the environment over the fire scene to control unit. Also, it provides the reading of the temperature and humidity at the spot so as to inform whether the place is safe for human interference. Many such robots can be carried by the firefighters along with them and assembled within minutes and can be deployed at that place to work synchronously with the help of remote control.