Solutions · SCBA-Mounted Sensors
Exposure monitoring that mounts on the gear you already wear.
A ruggedized multi-gas detector mounts on a standard self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) and streams to the cloud, tracking total volatile organic compound (VOC) exposure as a cumulative dose while your crew works. There’s no second device to carry and no procedure to relearn.
Zero Workflow Change
Mounts on. That’s the rollout.
Most new equipment shows up with a procedure change attached and the training hours to go with it. This one doesn’t. It mounts on the SCBA your crew already wears and starts reading as soon as the pack goes on, so the run looks the same as it did yesterday.
- Mounts on a standard SCBA, with no bracket swaps or retrofits
- Your crew carries nothing extra into the structure
- Turnout, entry, and overhaul all stay as they are
Built for the Fireground
Ruggedized, and ready in the rig.
The detector lives with the SCBA. It’s staged in the apparatus and mounted before the crew makes entry, which means it takes whatever the pack takes on the way in and on the way out. Gear on a fireground doesn’t get handled gently, and the enclosure is built on that assumption.
- Enclosure built for fireground conditions
- Staged with the SCBA in the apparatus, ready before the tones drop
- No separate handheld for your crew to manage on scene
What It Detects
One cumulative VOC dose. Four acute-safety channels.
Fire smoke is a long-term exposure problem and an immediate hazard at once, and the detector keeps the two apart. Total VOC builds into a dose across the incident. CO, H₂S, LEL, and O₂ run alongside it for whatever needs a warning right now.
Total VOC (Cumulative Dose)
Volatile organic compounds are part of fire smoke. In 2022 the World Health Organization’s IARC classified occupational firefighting exposure as Group 1, carcinogenic to humans. The detector measures total VOC, not individual compounds, and builds it into a dose in ppm·minutes.
Carbon Monoxide (CO)
The classic fireground toxicant. CO reports on its own acute-safety channel, separate from the cumulative VOC dose.
Hydrogen Sulfide (H₂S)
A fast-acting toxic gas that comes off materials as they break down. Levels are read live, so a warning reaches the crew while concentrations are still climbing.
Explosive Atmosphere (LEL)
Lower-explosive-limit readings flag an atmosphere trending toward flammable before it gets there.
Oxygen (O₂)
The oxygen channel reads live. Deficient or enriched, the problem surfaces while your crew can still act on it.
One Reading Stream
One detector covers all five channels. VOC builds into a single cumulative dose in ppm·minutes. The other four report live, each on its own readout.
Connectivity
From the fireground to the cloud, live.
Readings don’t wait for the ride back to the station. The detector streams into the RespAI platform while the call is running, so your crew’s exposure shows up on the dashboard during the call.
- Readings leave the detector wirelessly, with no action from the crew
- Exposure data reaches the platform mid-incident, not at the end of shift
- Feeds cumulative dose in ppm·minutes to Real-Time Dose Monitoring
- Triggers fixed-rule threshold alerts through Incident Command Alerts
Real-Time Dose Monitoring and Incident Command Alerts both run on this stream.
Deployment
From mount-on to career record
The hardware is the start of the pipeline. Every reading it captures ends up somewhere permanent.
Mount
The detector goes on with the SCBA before the crew rolls out, the same way the pack does.
Measure
On scene, it accumulates VOC dose and streams every reading to the cloud.
On the Roadmap
Building toward carcinogen-specific sensing
Today RespAI reports a single number: how much total VOC a firefighter took on. That’s an indicator of what your crew was exposed to, not a cancer-risk score, and closing that gap is the whole point of the next sensor. A compact, purpose-built “e-nose” is in development, aimed at carcinogen-specific sensing on the fireground.
Ruggedized Hardware, Today
Built for heat, water, and impact. This is the detector in service today, measuring total VOC dose alongside CO, H₂S, LEL, and O₂. Ask us for the current spec sheet, and we’ll check it against your packs.
The “E-Nose” (In Development)
The goal is a compact sensor tuned to the carcinogens in fire smoke rather than to total VOC alone. It isn’t shipping yet. When it does, it feeds the same platform your crews are already on.
Platform-Native
Every sensor feeds the same platform: live dose readings, alerts, and incident records you can hand to a compliance officer or pull up in an after-action review.
The hardware is live in the field today. See the Holyrood Fire Department pilot.