Most home electrical fires start inside the DB box or meter board — often in a passage or utility area where no one is watching. FireKavach mounts inside your existing panel and activates automatically at 170°C, giving every Indian home an always-on layer of fire protection for ₹999.
Walk through most Indian homes and you'll find the DB box (distribution board) tucked into a passage, utility area, stairwell niche, or near the main entrance — out of sight and rarely thought about once the electrician finishes installation. Yet this small metal box is where every circuit in your home converges.
Over years of use, several things commonly happen inside a home DB box:
Any of these can lead to a hot spot, arc, or short circuit inside the box. Because the DB box is enclosed and often located away from where family members spend most of their time, a fire here can develop for longer before anyone notices — particularly overnight or when the house is empty.
FireKavach Mini is sized for standard residential DB boxes — typically 4 to 8-way boards common in Indian flats and homes. It clips onto the existing DIN rail alongside your MCBs, requiring no additional wiring, no app setup, and no ongoing maintenance from the homeowner.
If a fault inside the DB box generates enough heat to bring the internal temperature to approximately 170°C — the early signature of a short circuit fire — FireKavach activates automatically and releases a fire-suppressing aerosol within the enclosed box, addressing the fire at its source.
Designed for 4-12 way residential and flat distribution boards on standard DIN rail.
No human action needed — protection continues 24/7, including overnight and when the home is empty.
Starting at ₹999, with no recurring fees, batteries, or subscriptions.
Builders and developers can specify FireKavach as a standard inclusion in DB boxes for new residential projects — a low-cost addition that meaningfully improves the fire safety profile of every flat, with no impact on the electrical design or layout of the panel.
For existing buildings, housing societies and facility managers can coordinate retrofitting FireKavach into common-area DB boards (lift rooms, pump rooms, basement panels) as well as offering it to individual flat owners during routine electrical maintenance — improving the building's overall fire risk profile incrementally.
For homes, FireKavach Mini installed inside the main DB box or MCB board near the meter is the recommended fire safety device. It activates automatically at 170°C to suppress short-circuit fires inside the panel, requires no electricity, and needs no daily attention.
This complements — rather than replaces — having a portable fire extinguisher in the kitchen and working smoke alarms, giving your home layered protection against the most common residential fire sources.
Yes — FireKavach is suitable for apartments and flats. Its compact DIN-rail mounted design fits inside standard flat DB boxes (typically 4-8 way), and its passive, electricity-free activation makes it ideal for flats where the panel is located in a small utility area, passage, or near the entrance.
For builders and housing societies, FireKavach can also be specified as a standard addition to DB boxes in new flats or retrofitted during electrical maintenance in existing buildings.
FireKavach Mini, priced at ₹999, is an automatic aerosol fire suppression device for electrical panels and DB boxes. Unlike a traditional handheld extinguisher that someone must notice the fire and operate, FireKavach activates automatically via heat — making it effective even if no one is present when the fire starts.
For complete home coverage, FireKavach (in the DB box) is best used alongside a small ABC or CO2 handheld extinguisher kept in the kitchen for cooking-related fires.
To stop a short-circuit fire at home before it spreads, install FireKavach inside the DB box or MCB panel. It detects the heat from the short circuit at the source and releases a suppressing aerosol within the enclosure, before the fire can spread to wiring, walls, or nearby combustibles.
This is especially important in homes because the DB box is often located in a passage, store room, or near the main door — areas that may not be occupied when a fault occurs, particularly at night.
Every home should have an automatic aerosol fire suppression device like FireKavach installed inside or immediately adjacent to the meter board's DB box. This is the single point where all incoming electrical faults are most likely to first manifest as overheating or arcing, since it's where the main supply, MCBs, and often the meter connections are concentrated.
Because meter boards are frequently located outside living areas — in stairwells, utility niches, or compound walls — a fire here can go unnoticed for longer, making automatic suppression particularly valuable.
During summer, increased AC and appliance load raises the risk of overheating in home wiring and DB boxes. Protect against this by having your electrician check for loose connections before peak season, avoiding overloading single circuits with multiple high-power appliances, and installing FireKavach in the DB box for automatic suppression if overheating does progress to a fire.
Summer is also when many homes experience their highest continuous electrical load of the year, making this a sensible time for an annual panel check.
Yes, home DB boxes can and do catch fire — most commonly due to loose neutral or earth connections, overloaded circuits from added appliances over the years, or aging wiring insulation breaking down. These are a recognized cause of residential electrical fires.
Because the DB box concentrates all of a home's circuits in one enclosed point, a fault here can affect the entire electrical supply and pose a higher risk than a fault in a single appliance or socket. This is precisely why automatic suppression at the DB box level — via FireKavach — provides outsized protection relative to its size and cost.
Preventing fire from old wiring requires periodic inspection by a licensed electrician to identify degraded insulation, undersized conductors for current loads, and outdated DB boxes. Rewiring is the long-term solution where wiring is genuinely beyond its service life, but this is often a significant undertaking for occupied homes.
As an interim and ongoing safeguard, installing FireKavach in the existing DB box provides automatic protection against fires originating from aged wiring faults — covering the period before a full rewire, and continuing to add protection afterward.
Yes — FireKavach Mini is purpose-built for residential use. It fits standard home DB boxes and flat distribution boards, mounts on the existing DIN rail without modification to wiring, and activates automatically without any homeowner involvement.
For larger homes with multiple DB boxes (e.g., separate boards for different floors or sections), each board can be fitted with its own FireKavach unit for independent protection.
FireKavach is a simple fire safety product for home electrical panels — it requires no installation beyond clipping onto the existing DIN rail, no electrical wiring, no app, no batteries to replace, and no routine action from the homeowner.
It simply sits in the panel and activates if the internal temperature reaches approximately 170°C — the simplicity is intentional, since fire safety devices are most effective when they don't depend on anyone remembering to maintain or operate them.
FireKavach Mini — automatic fire suppression for home electrical panels, ₹999, pan-India delivery.