• 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.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2002

유도등은 일정한 조도를 가지고 상용전원에 의하여 항상 점등되어 있어야 함으로 전력소비 및 광원 교체등 경제적 손실과 관리상의 문제가 있게 된다. 본 논문은 이제까지 광원으로 사용하고 있던 형광등이나 백열전구 대신에 소비전력이 적은 고효율 발광다이오드를 사용하여 전력소비의 절감과, 점검시의 문제점을 개선하기 위해 원격제어가 가능한 새로운 유도등회로를 제안하고 실험한 것이다. 그 결과 원격제어 스위치에 의한 유도등 점검을 제어각의 범위에서 쉽게 제어할 수 있었으며 반응시간은 600〔$\mu$s〕로 매우 빠르게 동작하였다. 또한 출력 상승시간(Rise time)과 하강고시간(Fall time)은 최대 200〔ns〕로 예민하게 반응하였다. 광원으로 고효율 발광다이오드를 사용함으로 광원을 교체해야 하는등의 문제를 제거하였으며 전력소비를 감소시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.696-703
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• 2014

In this paper, we present a walking guidance system for the visually impaired for use at subway stations. This system, which is based on environmental knowledge, automatically detects and recognizes both exit numbers and arrow signs from natural outdoor scenes. The visually impaired can, therefore, utilize the system to find their own way (for example, using exit numbers and the directions provided) through a subway station. The proposed walking guidance system consists mainly of three stages: (a) sign detection using the MCT-based AdaBoost technique, (b) sign recognition using support vector machines and hidden Markov models, and (c) three verification techniques to discriminate between signs and non-signs. The experimental results indicate that our sign recognition system has a high performance with a detection rate of 98%, a recognition rate of 99.5%, and a false-positive error rate of 0.152.

• 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.

• 한국방재학회 논문집
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.67-72
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• 2005

본 연구는 건축물내의 완전 암흑상태에서 축광유도타일이 피난에 미치는 영향을 측정하기 위하여 조사하였다. 실험조사는 대구 Fire EXPO '05에 실험 장치를 전시하여 엑스포 관람자 520명을 대상으로 2005년 5월 26일부터 29일까지 실시되었다. 실험 조사결과 안전 암흑상태일 때 피난자세는 남자의 경우 70%, 여자는 72%가 벽을 더듬으며 피난한 반면에 축광유도타일이 설치된 경우에는 남자의 경우 88%, 여자의 경우 83%가 선채로 피난을 한 것으로 나타났다. 공공건물의 바닥에 축광유도타일을 설치하면 화재시 정전이 되더라고 평소와 다름없이 피난을 할 수 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• 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.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 2005년도 공동추계학술논문발표회 논문집
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• pp.208-212
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• 2005

• 한국실내디자인학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국실내디자인학회 2004년도 춘계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.60-65
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• 2004

This dissertation is focalized on examining research on the actual condition and problem in the exit-space-form of Multiplex Cinema and mutual relation of user and finding more efficient and reasonable project method through valuation of design elements which the user can feel. In result, 4 place which is newly opened after 1990's is analyzed in Seoul. It is researched that Many user feel inconvenience and discomfort when they recognize exit-space. In order to improve itthey want to feel at ease naturally with light-embeded sign and landscape space. The exit-space should be recognized that it is a part of cinema which have to be developed and planed for the inner part of cinema and security of user. Not death-space.