Computer games could improve workplace fire safety

Picture this: You've got to give a final touch on the Econometrics and Time Series Analysis for your Scandinavian client. You've just got some minute changes to be done in the Monte Carlo simulation and then its a wrap up. 

You sleep on it. After miles away into another matrix, you hear a telephone ring at 02:55 hrs, you get a call from your boss that the entire 28th, 29th and 30th floor is on fire, little could you get your dreamy eyes all lightened up at the word 30th floor and Boom! 

They say life is valuable, but times like these work takes an upper edge. What do you, when all that you worked for is on flames?

Ziacom the pioneer in the state-of-the-art security services has launched a computer game − the Blackbox.  If you thought playing with fire is not a game, then think again. 

Blackbox is a one stone two bird solution in fire safety service. Like the XBox, Blackbox  comes with a game CD, Blackboxfiera, the fire safety game. BB is a carapace shaped on-the-wall security unit that can be mounted on the wall. I for one look at Blackboxfiera as a game with a plan, and a plan with a game.

Blackboxfiera fire safety game is customized to your work place settings, the building, the furniture, and the surrounding is mapped out, all this goes into designing and programming the simulators. Gerald Holmes, the vice-president of Grasshopper Technologies one of the first few customers of Blackfiera says, "If you are not playing this game, then you surely are playing with fire ." Eric Schmidt, COO at Ziacom says, "Blackboxfiera with Blackbox is a game with a backup."

The  Blackbox kit comes with a user friendly manual, demonstration video clip, and a simulation program that takes you through drills, and the do's and don'ts of fire safety. A small iphone shaped touch screen remote that syncs the BB with the server and makes  functionalities do able on touch. BB is fire and water resistant. It runs on solar power. The censors embedded in the Blackbox are highly sensitive to the slightest change in the temperature or illuminance. It identifies and detects the origin of the spark/flames and sends an alarm to the nearest fire station and hospitals. Its auto activate key shuts down the power supply. To learn more on the kit, visit  www.ziacom.com/product/blackbox.php. 

Wired and Businessweek magazines have marked BB as the next for-home-for-office  must have security unit. The critics call it the first aid in fire safety; the makers call it the dad who is always there.