• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.82-88
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• 2017

Emergency lights and exit signs are an indispensable part of safety precautions for effective evacuation in case of emergency in public buildings. These emergency sign indicates safe escape routes and emergency doors, using an internationally recognizable sign. However visibility of those signs drops drastically in case of emergency situations like fire smoke, etc. and loss of visibility causes serious problems for safety evacuation. This paper propose a novel emergency light and exit sign built-in with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacon to assist the emergency self-guiding evacuation using devices for crisis and emergency management to avoid panic condition inside the buildings. In this approach, the emergency light and exit sign with the BLE beacons deployed in the indoor environments and the smart devices detect their indoor positions, direction to move, and next exit sign position from beacon messages and interact with map server in the Internet / Intranet over the available LTE and/or Wi-Fi network connectivity. The map server generate an optimal emergency exit path according to the nearest emergency exit based on a novel graph generation method for less route computation for each smart device. All emergency exit path data interfaces among three system components, the emergency exit signs, map server, and smart devices, have been defined for modular implementation of our emergency evacuation system. The proposed exit sign experimental system has been deployed and evaluated in real-time building environment thoroughly and gives a good evidence that the modular design of the proposed exit sign system and a novel approach to compute emergency exit path route based on the BLE beacon message, map server, and smart devices is competitive and viable.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.101-106
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• 2017

In this paper, we present Emergency exit signs are installed to provide escape routes or ways in buildings like shopping malls, hospitals, industry, and government complex, etc. and various other places for safety purpose to aid people to escape easily during emergency situations. In case of an emergency situation like smoke, fire, bad lightings and crowded stamped condition at emergency situations, it's difficult for people to recognize the emergency exit signs and emergency doors to exit from the emergency building areas. This paper propose an automatic emergency exit sing recognition to find exit direction using a smart device. The proposed approach aims to develop an computer vision based smart phone application to detect emergency exit signs using the smart device camera and guide the direction to escape in the visible and audible output format. In this research, a CAMShift object tracking approach is used to detect the emergency exit sign and the direction information extracted using template matching method. The direction information of the exit sign is stored in a text format and then using text-to-speech the text synthesized to audible acoustic signal. The synthesized acoustic signal render on smart device speaker as an escape guide information to the user. This research result is analyzed and concluded from the views of visual elements selecting, EXIT appearance design and EXIT's placement in the building, which is very valuable and can be commonly referred in wayfinder system.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.569-574
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 동적으로 설정되는 피난 유도 표지에 실시간 화재 상황을 반영한 최적의 피난 경로를 제시하는 LoRa 기반 피난 유도 체계를 설계하고 구현한다. 각 피난 유도 표지는 전후좌우를 나타내는 4개의 LED 지시등으로 구성되고 화재 발생 시 실시간으로 계산된 최적의 대피 경로를 화살표로 표시한다. 제안 알고리즘의 검증을 위해 동적인 화재 상황을 모의 생성하는 시뮬레이션 환경을 구축하여 다양한 지점에서 화재가 발생했을 때 각각의 피난 유도 표지가 정확한 피난 경로를 안내하는지 여부를 검증하였다. 또한 LoRa 기반 무선통신의 성능 확인을 위해 실내, 실내 대 실외, 실외 환경에서 데이터 전송률을 측정하였다. 제안하는 시스템은 다수의 피난 유도 표지 설치 외에는 시스템 운영을 위한 추가 설비가 필요 없다는 측면에서 대형 건물은 물론 중소형 건물에도 쉽게 적용할 수 있다.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제5권1호
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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.

• 한국화재소방학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국화재소방학회 2008년도 추계학술논문발표회 논문집
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• pp.157-164
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• 2008

The optical characteristcs and visibility of emergence esit signs made with phosphorescent materials have been studied and compared with conventional signs. The phosphorescence of the materials meets standards as defineds by JIS, and achieved a level of brightness recognizable by the human eye. The visibility in the dard of the signs using the phosphorescent materials was shown to be higher than that of currently employed materials. It was confirmed that phosphorescent materials show excellent promise to improve the visibility of emergency exit signs.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.76-81
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• 2017

This paper presents a low cost and flexible IoT enabled smart LED controller using Arduino that is used for emergency exit signs. The Internet of Things (IoT) is become a global network that put together physical objects using network communications for the purpose of inter-communication of devices, access information on internet, interaction with users as well as permanent connected environment. A crucial point in this paper, is underlined on the potential key points of applying the Arduino platform as low cost, easy to use microcontroller with combination of various sensors applied in IoT technology to facilitate and establishment of intelligent products. To demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the system, devices such as LED strip, combination of various sensors, Arduino, power plug and ZigBee module have been integrated to setup smart emergency exit sign system. The general concept of the proposed system design discussed in this paper is all about the combination of various sensor such as smoke detector sensor, humidity, temperature sensor, glass break sensors as well as camera sensor that are connected to the main controller (Arduino) for the purpose of communicating with LED exit signs displayer and dedicated PC monitors from integrated system monitoring (controller room) through gateway devices using Zig bee module. A critical appraisal of the approach in the area concludes the paper.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제5권1호
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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.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제40권9호
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• pp.824-829
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• 2016

최근 크루즈 선박과 같이 선박의 대형화, 복합화가 진행됨에 따라 선박사고 시 인명피해가 증가하여, 선박 재난시 승객 안전을 확보하기 위한 기술의 필요성이 증가하고 있다. 현재까지는, 선박 내 사고 상황 시 안내방송 및 화재경보 비상벨, 비상유도등과 같이 현재 위치에서 안전한 곳으로 대피하라는 단순한 신호만 줄 뿐 적절한 탈출 경로를 선택함에 있어서 도움을 주지는 못한다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 여러 대피유도 방안이 제안되어 왔지만 다양한 위험요소와 그에 대한 특성에 대한 고려가 부족하여 실제 시스템에 적용하는 데 어려움이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 다양한 위험요소와 해당 특성을 고려할 수 있는 $A^*$ 알고리즘 기반의 대피유도 시스템을 제안한다. 가상 구조물 및 선박 내 재난 상황을 가정한 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안된 방식의 성능을 검증하였다.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.42-46
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• 2005

본 연구는 축광안료 혼입률 변화에 따른 축광세라믹스 시험체의 인광휘도 변화를 측정하였다. 측정결과 축광안료 혼입률에 비례해서 인광휘도는 증대하였다. 축광안료를 $20\%$이상 혼입한 시험체는 KS와 JIS의 안전표지판 규정값을 만족하였고 축광안료를 $50\%$ 홉입한 시험체는 규정값보다 10배나 높은 결과치를 얻었다. 축광세라믹스의 인광휘도는 도포횟수에 비례해서 증대하였으나 도포횟수가 비 이상이 되면 인광휘도의 상승은 나타나지 않았다. 축광세라믹스는 사용할 재료가 모두 무기재료이고, 광학적으로도 축광피난 유도표지로서 충분히 이용할 가치가 있는 재료라고 할 수 있다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2016년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.448-449
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• 2016

구조물이 대형화되고 복잡해짐에 따라 구조물 내부에서 사고가 발생하였을 경우 많은 인명 피해가 발생하고 있다. 기존에는 안내방송 및 화재경보 비상벨, 비상 유도등과 같이 소리와 빛으로 현재 위치에서 안전한 곳으로 대피하라는 개략적인 신호만 줄 뿐 적절한 탈출 경로를 선택함에 있어서 도움을 주지는 못한다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 여러 경로탐색 방안이 제안되어 왔지만 다양한 위험요소에 대한 고려나 탐색성능의 문제로 인해 실제 시스템에 적용하는 데 어려움이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 다양한 위험요소를 능동적으로 감지하고 $A^{\ast}$알고리즘을 이용하여 가장 적합한 경로로 유도할 수 있는 시스템을 제안한다. 가상 구조물 내 재난 상황을 가정한 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안된 방식의 성능을 검증하였다.