Pervasive emergency support systems for building evacuation

Author

Filippoupolitis, Avgoustinos ; Gorbil, Gokce ; Gelenbe, Erol

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Imperial Coll. London, London, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

19-23 March 2012

Firstpage

525

Lastpage

527

Abstract

An emergency situation taking place inside a confined space, such as a building, is a challenging task due to the presence of dynamic conditions. Pervasive systems can prove beneficial for the evacuation procedure, as they can provide directions to the evacuees regarding the best available exit. In this paper we describe two pervasive systems geared towards emergency support, which are deployed inside a building. Both systems use simple communications in order to collect and disseminate information regarding the best evacuation paths. We use a multi-agent simulation platform to demonstrate how the use of the systems improves the outcome of the evacuation procedure.

Keywords

disasters; emergency services; information dissemination; multi-agent systems; ubiquitous computing; building evacuation; information collection; information dissemination; multiagent simulation platform; pervasive emergency support systems; Artificial intelligence; Bridges; Buildings; Hazards; Routing; Tin; Wireless communication; building evacuation; disaster management; emergency simulation; opportunistic communications; pervasive systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lugano

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0905-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-0906-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197557

Filename

6197557