# False Alarm Problem in F&G Traditional fire & gas detection systems trigger on steam, dust, machinery heat. Every false alarm means production halts, evacuations, wasted emergency response. ## The Numbers - O&G downtime costs $149M/year per site (76% increase since 2019) - Offshore: $220K/hour, avg 32 hrs/month unplanned downtime = $84M/facility/year - Just 1% downtime (3.65 days) = $5M+ annual loss ## Why It Persists Threshold-based systems can't distinguish: - Steam vs smoke - Flaring vs fire - Equipment heat vs thermal anomaly Result: operators either ignore alarms (dangerous) or shut down (expensive). ## AI Solution Computer vision + [[Multi-Modal Anomaly Detection]] learns facility-specific "normal" signatures. Texas chemical plant case: 40% false alarm reduction, passed unannounced audits. 80% reduction in false alarms vs traditional systems. ## Links - [[F&G Control Systems]] - [[Alarm Thresholds]] - [[F&G Safety Opportunity MOC]] --- #problem #fire-and-gas #operations