Camera-based fire and smoke detection
Conventional smoke detectors react late in large or open spaces. Nara watches your existing IP cameras for flames and smoke, sends an immediate alert with an image to the control room, Teams or Telegram, and can switch on a tower light or siren.

[ 01 ]The problem
Conventional smoke detectors react late in large or open spaces such as warehouses, car parks and atriums.
- 01inputExisting IP cameras
- 02processFire and smoke detection model
- 03actionImmediate alert with an image to the control room, Teams or Telegram, plus a tower light or siren
How it works
Nara runs its bundled fire and smoke model on your camera streams. When it sees flames or smoke, it sends an alert with the image to the control room, Microsoft Teams, Telegram or email, can switch a tower light or siren, and saves the event for later review.
Works with Nara’s built-in models. You set up the zones, rules and outputs.
What you need
- IP cameras covering the space
- A PC, server or NVIDIA Jetson running Nara
- Optional: a tower light or siren
Nara building blocks
- Camera nodes
- Fire and smoke detection
- Notifications (Teams, Telegram, email)
- Tower light
- Image export
- Database table
- AI model: Fire and smoke detection
What it improves
- Time to detection
- Coverage of open areas
- Evidence for incidents
[ 03 ]Where it runs
Proof from real deployments.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Does it replace our fire alarm system?
No. It adds camera-based early warning on top of your existing systems, which helps in large or open spaces where detectors react late.
Can we use the cameras we already have?
Usually, yes. Nara reads standard IP cameras over RTSP, as well as Basler industrial cameras, USB webcams and video files.
Related
Related use cases

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Sites need to know straight away when people or vehicles enter closed areas after hours, without a guard watching every screen.

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Danger zone monitoring
People enter robot cells, crane zones or machine areas while the equipment is running.
Talk to us about fire and smoke detection.
Tell us about your site, cameras and machines, and we’ll show you how it runs on your own hardware, or download Nara and try it yourself.
