Paper Info
Title
A distributed architecture for real-time evacuation guidance in large smart buildings.
Abstract
In this paper, we consider the route coordination problem in emergency evacuation of large smart buildings. The building evacuation time is crucial in saving lives in emergency situations caused by imminent natural or man-made threats and disasters. Conventional approaches to evacuation route coordination are static and predefined. They rely on evacuation plans present only at a limited number of building locations and possibly a trained evacuation personnel to resolve unexpected contingencies. Smart buildings today are equipped with sensory infrastructure that can be used for an autonomous situation-aware evacuation guidance optimized in real time. A system providing such a guidance can help in avoiding additional evacuation casualties due to the flaws of the conventional evacuation approaches. Such a system should be robust and scalable to dynamically adapt to the number of evacuees and the size and safety conditions of a building. In this respect, we propose a distributed route recommender architecture for situation-aware evacuation guidance in smart buildings and describe its key modules in detail. We give an example of its functioning dynamics on a use case.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.2298/CSIS161014002L
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Evacuation guidance,real-time routing,distributed evacuation coordination,complex event processing,situation aware routing
Coordination game,Building evacuation,Emergency evacuation,Computer science,Computer security,Risk analysis (engineering),Artificial intelligence,Architecture,Complex event processing,Building automation,Real time routing,Machine learning,Scalability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
1
1820-0214
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.72
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marin Lujak19815.72
Holger Billhardt237236.86
Jürgen Dunkel310917.68
A. Fernandez4354.90
Ramon Hermoso523322.80
Sascha Ossowski61646158.02