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Proposal for an emergency evacuation method in hotel fires

  • Muraoka, Tetsuya
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1992.10b
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    • pp.85-89
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    • 1992
  • This report his discussed emergency evacuation in hotel fires and proposed an integrated system of emergency evacuation. By using "A New Type of the Computerized Emergency Evacuation System" all guests will be able to quickly and safety escapes the fire. the fire.

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A Study on the Necessity of an Addressable Emergency Broadcasting System to Improve Evacuation Performance (피난성능향상을 위한 주소형 비상방송시스템의 필요성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Si-Kuk;Lee, Min-Yong;Lee, Chun-Ha
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.14-22
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    • 2015
  • This thesis is based on the study of necessity of an addressable emergency broadcasting system to improve evacuation performance in order to minimize human casualty by avoiding the initial evacuation after fires such as the multi-unit dwelling fire in Euijeongbu in 2015. To minimize the damage from fire generated in a complex internal structure such as modern buildings, introduction of adaptable emergency broadcasting system, could increase the efficiency of evacuation by preventing of initial mistaken evacuation directions by alerting the accurate location of fire to the occupants, is needed. As such, this study designed and fabricated the addressable emergency broadcasting system using the existing addressable system. Its performance was compared with a conventional emergency broadcasting system to confirm the necessity of the addressable emergency broadcasting system to improve evacuation performance. The test result showed that the addressable emergency broadcasting system decreased the evacuation time by up to 30.3% in a small-scale model evacuation performance experiment, up to 54.6% in a hallway evacuation performance experiment compared to the conventional emergency broadcasting system.

Environment Adaptive Emergency Evacuation Route GUIDE through Digital Signage Systems

  • Lee, Dongwoo;Kim, Daehyun;Lee, Junghoon;Lee, Seungyoun;Hwang, Hyunsuk;Mariappan, Vinayagam;Lee, Minwoo;Cha, Jaesang
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.90-97
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    • 2017
  • Nowadays, the most of commercial buildings are build-out with complex architecture and decorated with more complicated interiors of buildings so establishing intelligible escape routes becomes an important case of fire or other emergency in a limited time. The commercial buildings are already equipped with multiple exit signs and these exit signs may create confusion and leads the people into different directions under emergency. This can jeopardize the emergency situation into a chaotic state, especially in a complex layout buildings. There are many research focused on implementing different approached to improve the exit sign system with better visual navigating effects, such as the use of laser beams, the combination of audio and video cues, etc. However the digital signage system based emergency exit sign management is one of the best solution to guide people under emergency situations to escape. This research paper, propose an intelligent evacuation route GUIDE that uses the combination centralized Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and digital signage for people safety and avoids dangers from emergency conditions. This proposed system applies WSN to detect the environment condition in the building and uses an evacuation algorithm to estimate the safe route to escape using the sensor information and then activates the signage system to display the safe evacuation route instruction GUIDE according to the location the signage system is installed. This paper presented the prototype of the proposed signage system and execution time to find the route with future research directions. The proposed system provides a natural intelligent evacuation route interface for self or remote operation in facility management to efficiently GUIDE people to the safe exit under emergency conditions.

Route Exploration Algorithm for Emergency Rescue Support on Urgent Disaster (긴급 재해 발생 시 피난 지원을 위한 탈출 경로 탐색 알고리즘)

  • Hwang, Jun-Su;Choi, Young-Bok
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.16 no.9
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    • pp.12-21
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    • 2016
  • The emergency evacuation support system supports evacuation assistance when an urgent disaster occurs. We have implemented evacuation route search algorithm to assist people's escape when a disaster occurs such as fires or terrorism in the building. The algorithm will guide the escape route at the fastest emergency exit of each region at the emergency state. The algorithm calculates the escape route by applying the weighting factor of age groups and population density around the emergency exit and of other regions. So the system helps escape to bypass the crowded emergency exit and the disaster area, and reduces the congestion of emergency exit and overloading of evacuation route.

Study on the Safety Evacuation of University Dormitory Occupants Based on Pathfinder

  • Zechen Zhang;Hasung Kong
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.328-334
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    • 2024
  • This study uses Pathfinder software to simulate and analyze the safe evacuation of university dormitory occupants. Fire safety issues in densely populated dormitory buildings are gaining increasing attention, and improving emergency evacuation efficiency is crucial for reducing the harm caused by fire incidents. The study focuses on a student dormitory building in a university, simulating different evacuation scenarios and analyzing the impact of factors such as evacuation routes, personnel distribution, exit width, and stair width on evacuation time. Based on the actual dormitory conditions, parameters such as gender ratio, height range, shoulder width, and walking speed of the occupants were set, and evacuation times in various scenarios were compared.The simulation results show that proper planning of evacuation routes and increasing stair width significantly reduced evacuation times. The study recommends that universities establish systematic emergency response plans, conduct regular evacuation drills, optimize student dormitory layouts, and consider increasing stair width in dormitory building designs to improve evacuation efficiency and safety.

Flexible Intelligent Exit Sign Management of Cloud-Connected Buildings

  • Lee, Minwoo;Mariappan, Vinayagam;Lee, Junghoon;Cho, Juphil;Cha, Jaesang
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.58-63
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    • 2017
  • Emergencies and disasters can happen any time without any warning, and things can change and escalate very quickly, and often it is swift and decisive actions that make all the difference. It is a responsibility of the building facility management to ensure that a proven evacuation plan in place to cover various worst scenario to handled automatically inside the facility. To mapping out optimal safe escape routes is a straightforward undertaking, but does not necessarily guarantee residents the highest level of protection. The emergency evacuation navigation approach is a state-of-the-art that designed to evacuate human livings during an emergencies based on real-time decisions using live sensory data with pre-defined optimum path finding algorithm. The poor decision on causalities and guidance may apparently end the evacuation process and cannot then be remedied. This paper propose a cloud connected emergency evacuation system model to react dynamically to changes in the environment in emergency for safest emergency evacuation using IoT based emergency exit sign system. In the previous researches shows that the performance of optimal routing algorithms for evacuation purposes are more sensitive to the initial distribution of evacuees, the occupancy levels, and the type and level of emergency situations. The heuristic-based evacuees routing algorithms have a problem with the choice of certain parameters which causes evacuation process in real-time. Therefore, this paper proposes an evacuee routing algorithm that optimizes evacuation by making using high computational power of cloud servers. The proposed algorithm is evaluated via a cloud-based simulator with different "simulated casualties" are then re-routed using a Dijkstra's algorithm to obtain new safe emergency evacuation paths against guiding evacuees with a predetermined routing algorithm for them to emergency exits. The performance of proposed approach can be iterated as long as corrective action is still possible and give safe evacuation paths and dynamically configure the emergency exit signs to react for real-time instantaneous safe evacuation guidance.

Simulation Analysis of Safety Evacuation in University Experiment Building

  • Tao Zhang;Ha-Sung Kong
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.218-226
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    • 2024
  • According to the actual situation of a university, the emergency evacuation simulation is modeled based on the physical sign, evacuation speed and personnel ratio using the pathfinder software.The experimental construction export utilization rate is compared with the preliminary simulation scenario. The simulation results show that the utilization rate of evacuation stairs and evacuation exits is significantly improved.The optimized solution can provide the most effective evacuation passage, and the research results can provide the basis for the rational planning and management of evacuation passage in university experiment building.

Estimation of Vehicles Evacuation Time by using Lane-based Routing Method (차로기반 경로유도방식을 이용한 차량의 소개시간 추정)

  • Do, Myungsik
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.29-36
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    • 2013
  • This study is the fundamental research to establish evacuation planning and to analyze evacuation planning characteristics in Gumi-city based on existing network and traffic characteristics data. Assuming an emergency situation, it compared with evacuation time estimates between using existing traffic signal system and proposed lane-based routing method through micro simulations. As a result, using existing traffic signal system could not affect the evacuation times in each level of emergency conditions. However this study found that proposed lane-based routing method is very effective to reduce an evacuation time compared with using existing traffic signal system. Also the proposed method is verified to reduce an evacuation time especially in extreme emergency circumstances.

A Study on the Emergency Stairway Evacuation of Skyscraper (초고층 건물의 비상계단 대피실험에 관한 연구)

  • Back, Min-Ho;Shin, Ho-Jun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.55-61
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    • 2010
  • In this study, the construction trend of skyscraper was summarized chirologically to examine the characteristics and current, and the issue in evacuation was examined through the case of fire breakout in skyscraper. Based on this, the type of evacuation using the emergency stairway during the fire breakout in skyscraper was decided on six types and empirical experiment was conducted for each type. The issues on the participants that participated in the emergency stairway evacuation experiment from the fire breakout in skyscraper and the difficulties in the evacuation were qualitatively evaluated to summarize each element of hindrance to summarize basic information on emergency stairway evacuation.

The School Design Factors as Emergency Shelter after Disaster - Focus on the Function for Evacuation Center and Education Maintenance (재난재해 시 응급대피공간으로서 학교시설의 디자인 고려요소 -대피거점기능과 교육활동유지기능을 중심으로-)

  • Kim, Kyung-Sook;Kim, Min-Gyeong
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.69-77
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study is to provide the school planning factors as emergency shelter after disaster. The school functions as the evacuation space areas could be classified into the evacuation center, education maintenance, and dwelling. Among these functions, the scopes of our study are limited to the functions of evacuation center and education maintenance. To carry out this purpose, we were comparative analyzed the shelter space problems of Korea and Japan's survey in the existing literatures. In results of our study, the evacuation center's functions are difficult to depending on the disaster types, such as the earthquake, tornado, and hurricane. On the other hand, the education maintenance functions are difficult to deepening on the victims occupied times in the school as emergency shelters. Based on these findings, the Korea school planning as the emergency shelters are desired to reflect that the evacuation's functions based on the disaster type of the damage from storms, and the education maintenance's functions based on the victim's occupied times in school for their safety.

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