Advances in sensor technology have ...

Advances in sensor technology have created opportunities to address many hazards that produces can present to consumers, and this paper reports the inferences of experiments performed on an electric clothes dyer The experiment clothes dryer was instrumented with a number of sensors and operated beneath normal and abnormal operation conditions. The recorded sensor data were analyzed to determine if undesirable conditions that could lead to impending hazardous conditions could be discovered before developing into a consumer hazard.

Background

Electric and gas-fueled clothes dryer continue to be associated with a large number of fire incidents in the U In 1998 an