Demo abstract: emergency building evacuation guided by a wireless sensor network

Authors:
Dionysios Efstathiou;Stelios Ioannou;Sotiris Nikoletseas;Dimitra Patroumpa
Affiliations:
Research Academic Computer Technology Institute & University of Patras, Patras, Greece;University of Patras, Patras, Greece;Research Academic Computer Technology Institute & University of Patras, Patras, Greece;Research Academic Computer Technology Institute & University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Venue:
Proceedings of the 9th ACM international symposium on Mobility management and wireless access
Year:
2011

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Abstract

One of the most important applications of wireless sensor networks is building monitoring and more specifically, the early detection of emergency events and the provision of guidance for safe evacuation of the building. In this paper, we describe a demo application that, in the event of a fire inside a monitored building, uses the information from the deployed sensor network in order to find the shortest safest path away from the emergency and provides navigation guidance to the occupants (modelled by a mobile robot), in order to safely evacuate the building. For this demo, we developed our own ad-hoc robot-sensor interconnection using expansion connectors and programming in a low-level language.