Fire Frequency by The JKObjective

• Jonás Chavez
• Kathleen Mae Galicia
• Olivia Kagan

Advisor: Vahe Caliskan, PhD

Fire can cause serious damage to a home, but smoke, chemicals, and water have proven to be even more damaging. Furthermore, according to the National Fire Protection Association, residential fires in the United States are the most common type of building fires and are the leading cause of fire-related death and injury as of 2017. Our goals are to help contain small fires before they get out of control and to minimize the amount of water damage from fire fighting. Our team created a device, Fire Frequency, that uses a combination of low-frequency sound waves between 50 and 70 Hz to extinguish a fire. This innovative method of extinguishing fires will help homeowners to have better, safer control over fire accidents. To demonstrate our project, we successfully extinguished a candle from a distance of 1ft. In the future, we plan to make the device accessible for multi-story buildings to extend the area of extinguishing and increase the size of the fire that can be extinguished using our device.

See supporting documentation in the team’s Box drive.