4. Summary

The purpose of this work was to explore new technological opportunities on the market and to describe their added value from the point of view of fire safety. In addition, the work comprehensively examined the various management challenges and development opportunities involved in the design, procurement, implementation, and maintenance of fire safety systems. The four key areas of the research work were: improving operational reassurance, preventing accidents, providing rescue authorities with real-time information, and utilizing the condition censoring of building technology.

This work provided a timely overview of the technologies and new technological opportunities on the market and sought to illustrate the added value of these. Different platform solutions currently enable the implementation of more integrated fire safety, which means that the system package can integrate technology that analyses sound, light, and video, introducing completely new ways to improve fire safety. This study investigated what kind of information or tools are needed to support the fire safety planning and implementation of projects. The results and conclusions of the study also provided a comprehensive description of the numerous other problems raised in the study and their possible solutions. As early as in the construction stage, it would be important to coordinate all the technology integrated in the building and see fire safety as part of it. If fire safety technology, solutions affecting fire safety and regulatory requirements could be considered already during the design phase of the building, the extension of contracts and additional costs would be avoided. Based on this study, a specialized system coordinator is suggested as a viable solution to this problem. This coordinator would be familiar with the operational procedures in the fire safety industry, and they would coordinate the fire safety aspects from the beginning to end of the construction process. The study also confirms that the end users and owners of the building should be more strongly involved in the initial phase of the building project.

The result of this study indicates that research, development, and training programs are needed in several different areas. Consequently, the contributions of expert work should therefore be transferred to the transmission of information and the development of attitudes. These results will be able to guide research and development projects in more specific areas and for the right target groups. Fire safety has been identified in construction projects as a difficult entity to manage and awareness needs to be raised both among users and those involved in design and implementation. Data production must be increased in the context

of other developments, so that fire safety remains involved in the development of integrations, platform implementations and data models.

The work clearly highlighted three key areas for further research: the use of data models and the digital twin to improve fire safety, the management of the system and the operating model of the system coordinator, and the quality manual for the system project.