Enhancing evacuation plans with a situation awareness system based on end-user knowledge provision

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 Plan...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2014-06, Vol.14 (6), p.11153-11178
Main Authors: Morales, Augusto, Alcarria, Ramon, Martin, Diego, Robles, Tomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
actions
Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence
Awareness
Business
Decision making
Decision Support Techniques
Disaster Planning - methods
Disasters
Emergencies
Emergency Shelter - methods
End users
Evacuation
evacuation plan
Evacuations & rescues
events conditions
Evolution
Facility Design and Construction
Human error
Legacy
publish/subscribe
Sensors
Simulation
situation awareness
User satisfaction
wireless sensor networks
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s140611153