A Novel Urgent Communications Technologies for Sharing Evacuation Support Information in Panic-Type Disasters

Vast number of victims have damaged and died due to a lot of large-scale disasters (earthquake, fire, and terrorism, etc.) up to the present time. In disasters that most victims become panic, two matters are necessary to evacuate efficiently. The first is to estimate the location of the disaster occurrence. The second is to construct the evacuation support system that searches a safe and efficient evacuation route. In this paper, we propose Emergency Rescue Urgent Communication - Evacuation Support System (EUC-ESS) based on Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs) composed of a lot of mobile terminals. By computer simulation, we show that this system would work to support the disaster victims regardless of situations (indoor, urban, basement, etc.).