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Design of Emergency Evacuation Guiding System with Serially Connected Multi-channel Speakers  

Chung, Han-Vit (Department of Electronic and Radio Engineering, Kyung Hee University)
Kim, Tea-Wan (Department of Electronic and Radio Engineering, Kyung Hee University)
Chung, Yun-Mo (Department of Electronic and Radio Engineering, Kyung Hee University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP / v.48, no.4, 2011 , pp. 142-152 More about this Journal
Abstract
In general, existing emergency evacuation guiding systems depend on visual techniques like emergency lights or LEDs. Actually people in the case of fire emergency condition may not obtain a range of view because of smoke from the fire. This paper introduces a technique to design an emergency guiding system using directivity sound to cope with this problem. In this case all speakers are serially connected for audio signal transmission in a serial fashion to achieve convenient speaker installation. Floyd algorithm is used to find shortest evacuation paths. Because serially connected multi-channel speakers are weak in case of disconnection, this paper uses a technique to solve the diagnostic problem. In the proposed system, a PC based on the USB protocol is used for control and observation. The system has achievements, such as increasing evacuation rate under emergency conditions, and serial transmission of audio signal for easy maintenance and low installation cost.
Keywords
evacuation; guiding; directivity sound; Hass effect; Doppler effect;
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