• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.69-70
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• 2017

As the industry develops, the size of buildings and ships are getting bigger and more complicated. In such a complex space, emergency evacuation systems are required because of the possibility of casualties when an accident situation occurs. However, because present systems are composed of basic devices, such as alarms, emergency exit signs, and announcement regarding the situation and inform only the least information to evacuees, evacuees are not able to judge objectively. To solve these problems, various evacuation algorithms have been proposed. However, these studies aim to search evacuation routes based on specific risk factors or to model the effects of bottlenecks in evacuation situations. Therefore, there is a limit to apply to real systems. Therefore, we propose algorithms to search the optimal evacuation route considering various risk factors such as fire and bottleneck in evacuation situations and to be applicable in actual situation in this paper. Performance evaluation using computer simulations showed that the proposed scheme is effective.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.4
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• pp.142-152
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• 2011

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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.280-281
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• 2017

사물 인터넷을 기반으로 지하철역사의 재난 전조를 조기에 발견하고 승객들에게 피난을 유도하는 지하철 재난전조 감지 시스템 개발에 있어서 재난 발생시 상황대피 유도방법과 정확한 재난 위치 알림 및 대피경로 안내는 재난 상황에 빠른 대피와 인명피해를 최소화 할수 있는 매우 적극적인 대안이 될 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 대피를 가장 효율적으로 유도할 수 있는 재난대응 EL Display 통합 보드를 개발하였으며 이를 현장 실험을 통해 실제 활용성에 대한 검토를 실험하였다. 특히, EL패널을 재난 대피유도용으로 활용한 사례가 없어 현장적용테스트를 거쳐 그 활용 가능성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.79-85
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• 2017

It is critical that passengers should be given timely and correct escape or evacuation guidance from captain and crews when there are hazardous situations in a ship. Otherwise the consequences could be disastrous as "SEWOL Ferry" the South Korean passenger ship which sank in southern coastal area on 16th April 2014. Due to the captain's delayed evacuation decision and lack of sufficient number of crews to guide passengers' evacuation, the accident recorded many casualties, most of whom were high school students (302 passengers sank down with the ship while 172 rescued). Building a passenger ship with well-designed physical escape routes is one thing and guiding passengers to those escape routes in real disaster situation is another. Passengers get panic and move to a wrong direction, bottleneck makes situation worse, and even crews get panic also - passive static escape route signage and small number of trained crews might not be enough to take care of them. SESS (Smart Escape Support System) is being developed sponsored by South Korea Ministry of Ocean and Fisheries starting from 2016 with 4 years of roadmap. SESS comprises multiple active dynamic signage devices which communicate with real-time escape routing server software via LoRa (Long Range) proprietary wireless network.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.244-253
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• 2021

This study examined how the fire evacuation induction service system using a smartphone navigation application in the event of a fire affects the fire evacuation time, and the following conclusions were drawn. 1. The evacuation time was reduced by 22 seconds when the navigation application was used in computer scenario simulation. Even in the demonstration simulation, the evacuation time was reduced by 40 seconds when the navigation application was used. This indicates that the navigation application is effective in shortening the evacuation time in case of fire. 2. As a result of the demonstration scenario simulation, the time until the end of evacuation was 39 seconds faster in the case of evacuation guidance than in the case where it was not conducted. 3. No bottlenecks occurred in the evacuation route during the demonstration scenario simulation. As a result, there was a difference in the time required to complete the evacuation between the computer scenario simulation and the demonstration scenario simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.989-991
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• 2022

최근 들어 기후변화와 함께, 화재 발생이 증가함에 따라 인명피해와 경제적 피해가 늘고 있다. 화재 발생시 인명 피해를 줄여주는 소방시설 중 경보설비와 유도등설비는 위험 상황시 경보와 함께 동선을 유도하는 유도등을 보고 재실자들이 안전한 공간으로 신속하게 대피할 수 있도록 하는 소방설비 이다. 이중에서 유도등설비는 화재발생 상황에서 매우 중요한 역할을 맡고 있다. 특히 복잡한 동선을 가지고 있는 복합건물 및 지하철, 고층건축물에 신속한 대피 유도에 필요한 설비이다. 그러나, 화재 초기에 신속한 대피를 해야 하는데 5분도 되지 않아 화재로 인해 발생한 가스는 검은 연기로 유도등의 역할과 효과를 저해하는 현상을 가져온다. 즉 유도등의 녹색빛이 보이지 않는다. 이는 저시력자 또는 시력에 장애를 가지고 있는 자들은 더욱더 유도등을 확인하고 대피 하기란 쉽지 않게 된다. 이런 단점이 있는 기존의 유도등에 IoT(Internet of Things)와 함께 증강현실 이미지를 스마트기기에 활성화 한다면, 진한 검은연기로 인한 빛의 가림으로 인한 유도장애에 대해서 개선 할 수 있을 거라 생각되어, 변류기의 전류 감지를 시작으로 그 신호를 스마트기기에 녹색의 유도 이미지를 활성화하여 골든타임에 대피가 신속하도록 설비를 구현하여 그 가능성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.10
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• pp.1248-1253
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• 2019

Using current evacuation methods, a crew describes the physical location of an accident and guides evacuation using alarms and emergency guide lights. However, in case of an accident on a large and complex building, an intelligent and effective emergency evacuation system is required to ensure the safety of evacuees. Therefore, several studies have been performed on intelligent path finding and emergency evacuation algorithms which are centralized guidance methods using gathered data from distributed sensor nodes. However, another important aspect is effective rescue guidance in an emergency situation. So far, there has been no consideration on the efficient rescue guidance scheme. Therefore, this paper proposes the genetic algorithm based emergency rescue guidance method using distributed wireless sensor networks. Performance evaluation using a computer simulation shows that the proposed scheme guarantees efficient path finding. The fitness converges to the minimum value in reasonable time. The density of each exit node is remarkably decreased as well.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.282-285
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• 2008

최근 실시간 상황 정보를 제공할 뿐만 아니라 상황 정보를 파악하여 필요한 행위를 제안하거나 수행하는 서비스가 필요하다. 특히 대중 시설에서 긴급한 상황이 발생할 경우 사람들에게 위험 상황을 알리거나 대처 행위를 위한 안내가 요구된다. 이에 본 논문에서는 고립된 다층 건물에서 화재 발생 시 최대한 빠른 탈출 경로를 제시하고 3차원 대피 유도 방안을 설계하고 구현한다. 이를 위하여 건물의 정보를 입력할 수 있는 건물 층 정보 입력 모듈, 건물 내부의 유도등, 비상구등을 표시하는 건물 노드입력 모듈, 이 노드 간 연결 정보를 생성하는 연결 정보 생성 모듈을 설계하고 구현한다. 제시한 3차원 대피 유도 방안으로 건물 어느 층에서나 현재 건물의 상태 정보를 알아내어 최종 탈출구로의 올바른 유도 경로를 표시 할 수 있다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.109-114
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• 2009

At the present time, buildings are designed higher and more complex than ever before. Therefore the potential disasters are happened such as fire, power outage, earthquake, flood, hurricanes. Their disasters require people inside buildings to be evacuated as soon as possible. This paper presents a new disaster evacuation guidance concept of inner buildings, whiche aims at integrated the constructing of a sensor network and a guidance light networks in order to provide a quick detection of disasters and accurate evacuation guidance based on indoor geo-information, and sends these instructions to people. In this paper, we present the integrated logical model based on sensor and guidance light networks for the fire disaster management in inner building using our concept. And we verify proposed logical model according to experiments with visualization and operations on map.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.130-135
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• 2016

In this paper, the trend of evacuation path providing or guidance systems for safety on disaster situation is analyzed. For trend analysis, 31 papers of domestic and international, 29 patents of domestic, and the finished 9 national funded projects, which have been performed for recent 15 years are analysed. As the results of analysis, the previous researches were performed in the view of the guidance systems, but there is no study that can be used for peoples in dangerous situation until now. Also it has technical limitations in using indoor positioning technology for peoples. In this paper, therefore, we propose to use the indoor positioning technology for developing a novel evacuation guidance system for peoples in dangerous situation. It can be utilized to develop a novel evacuation guidance system which is considered indoor disaster situations.