The key ingredients for a fire are heat, fuel and oxygen; take one of these away, and the flames are extinguished. Sound ...

Sonic Fire Tech’s infrasound system detects and stops wildfires without water, offering a new defense for California homes.

Sonic Fire Tech, a US startup founded by former NASA engineer Geoff Bruder, is developing an infrasound-based fire prevention ...

Sonic Fire Tech, co-founded by aerospace engineer Geoff Bruder, has developed a system that uses infrasound – low-frequency sound waves below the threshold of human hearing ...

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