RFES: a real-time fire evacuation system for Mobile Web3D

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 1061-1074 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng-ting Yan ◽  
Yong-hao Hu ◽  
Jin-yuan Jia ◽  
Qing-hua Guo ◽  
He-hua Zhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Fire Evacuation ◽  
Evacuation System

Automated Fire Evacuation System with Congestion Control

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sujata Pathak ◽  
Shreya Parikh ◽  
Adviat Bhat ◽  
Amandeep Singh Dhabada ◽  
Arvind Ganesh
Keyword(s):  
Congestion Control ◽  
Fire Evacuation ◽  
Evacuation System

Interactive analysis and visualization of situationally aware building evacuations

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 204-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Guest ◽  
Todd Eaglin ◽  
Kalpathi Subramanian ◽  
William Ribarsky
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Large Body ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Campus Police ◽  
Evacuation Simulation ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
Building Models ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
Evacuation System

Evacuation of large urban structures, such as campus buildings, arenas, or stadiums, is of prime interest to emergency responders and planners. Although there is a large body of work on evacuation algorithms and their application, most of these methods are impractical to use in real-world scenarios (nonreal-time, for instance) or have difficulty handling scenarios with dynamically changing conditions. Our overall goal in this work is toward developing computer visualizations and real-time visual analytic tools for evacuations of large groups of buildings, and in the long term, integrate this with the street networks in the surrounding areas. A key aspect of our system is to provide situational awareness and decision support to first responders and emergency planners. In our earlier work, we demonstrated an evacuation system that employed a modified variant of a heuristic-based evacuation algorithm, which (1) facilitated real-time complex user interaction with first responder teams, in response to information received during the emergency; (2) automatically supported visual reporting tools for spatial occupancy, temporal cues, and procedural recommendations; and (3) multi-scale building models, heuristic evacuation models, and unique graph manipulation techniques for producing near real-time situational awareness. The system was tested in collaboration with our campus police and safety personnel, via a tabletop exercise consisting of three different scenarios. In this work, we have redesigned the system to be able to handle larger groups of buildings, in order to move toward a full-campus evacuation system. We demonstrate an evacuation simulation involving 22 buildings in the University of North Carolina, Charlotte campus. Second, the implementation has been redesigned as a WebGL application, facilitating easy dissemination and use by stakeholders.

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