Emergency Evacuation using Wireless Sensor Networks

Authors:
Matthew Barnes;Hugh Leather;D. K. Arvind
Affiliations:
University of Edinburgh, UK;University of Edinburgh, UK;University of Edinburgh, UK
Venue:
LCN '07 Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This paper presents a distributed algorithm to direct evacuees to exits through arbitrarily complex building layouts in emergency situations. The algorithm finds the safest paths for evacuees taking into account predictions of the relative movements of hazards, such as fires, and evacuees. The algorithm is demonstrated on a 64 node wireless sensor network test platform and in simulation. The results of simulations are shown to demonstrate the navigation paths found by the algorithm.