Enhancing Evacuation Plans with a Situation Awareness System Based on End-User Knowledge Provision

Sensors

Augusto Morales²  Ramon Alcarria¹  Diego Martin² 

[1] Department of Topographic and Cartographic Engineering, Technical University of Madrid, Av. del Mediterráneo km 7.0 (Calle Mercator 2), 28031 Madrid, Spain; E-Mail:;Department of Telematics Engineering, Technical University of Madrid, Av. Complutense 30, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain; E-Mails:

关键词: evacuation plan;    events conditions;    actions;    wireless sensor networks;    publish/subscribe;    situation awareness;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s140611153

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Recent disasters have shown that having clearly defined preventive procedures and decisions is a critical component that minimizes evacuation hazards and ensures a rapid and successful evolution of evacuation plans. In this context, we present our Situation-Aware System for enhancing Evacuation Plans (SASEP) system, which allows creating end-user business rules that technically support the specific events, conditions and actions related to evacuation plans. An experimental validation was carried out where 32 people faced a simulated emergency situation, 16 of them using SASEP and the other 16 using a legacy system based on static signs. From the results obtained, we compare both techniques and discuss in which situations SASEP offers a better evacuation route option, confirming that it is highly valuable when there is a threat in the evacuation route. In addition, a study about user satisfaction using both systems is presented showing in which cases the systems are assessed as satisfactory, relevant and not frustrating.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
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