Full Project Overview
ExtinguisherTracker started from a real problem I dealt with in the field: fire extinguisher inspections were being handled with paper, pen, printed lists, handwritten notes, and manual searching. That works when the list is small, but once a facility has hundreds of extinguishers spread across multiple buildings, floors, departments, parking decks, stairwells, mechanical rooms, and storage areas, the old way gets slow fast.
The original process created too much wasted time. If an extinguisher was missing, moved, blocked, replaced, or had a different serial number, tracking that information meant flipping through paper, writing notes by hand, trying to remember where something was found, and later transferring that information somewhere else. Searching for one extinguisher could turn into a scavenger hunt. Finding patterns across locations was even harder.
I built ExtinguisherTracker because I knew there had to be a better way. The goal was simple at first: make inspections faster and easier. But the more I worked through the real-world problems, the bigger the project became. What started as a basic way to replace paper lists grew into a full inspection and asset tracking system designed around how fire extinguisher work actually happens in the field.
