In order to alarm the fire and analyze the material burned, the high efficiency imaging system is designed to monitor the fire. The system selects the high performance CMOS image sensor, utilizing real-Time DSP with higher computing power, it is designed based on DSP C6748 by IIC serial port flame detectors video camera's registers, and the generated image data sent to DSP by VPIF interface, the image algorithm is transplanted to DSP, at last, the system will alarm the fire and output spectral characteristics of the burning material via Ethernet interface. This system completes algorithm hardware realization, and the algorithm can detect image in real-Time and extract the effect of spectral characteristics of burning material, so that the algorithm processing can speed up from minute level on the PC to the sub-second level. © 2017 SPIE.