  Electricity supply to facilities is essential, but can cause fires when care
is not taken, and can destroy the properties within some few minutes. The need
for fire protection is therefore essential. This paper address-es this
pertinent issue facing Ghana as a developing country. At the fire outbreak, the
designed system re-sponds to the smoke and cuts off the electricity supply.
When a fire is detected, an alarm is turned on and Short Messaging Service
(SMS) alert is sent to the owner. After ten to fifteen seconds, the system,
resends SMS to the owner and the National Fire Service (NFS) safety officer
giving the exact location. The call alert is sent to the owner of a facility
and fire safety personnel respectively, when the system is not reset. A
microcontroller serves as the command center of the cost effective, intelligent
fire safety system. The circuit is designed and simulated using Proteus
software, and programing was done using Global System for Mo-bile
Communications (GSM) SMS Controller Alarm Configurator software. The prototype
was constructed and tested in real-time. The proposed system is cost effective
and will help policy makers, and save lives and property when implemented.
