An effectiveness study of an intelligent emergency evacuation system using field verification techniques

Abstract

����ince the trend of concentration to the urban population is more and more obvious, the architecture design in the city are more complicated. In a complex design environment, when the fire occurs, although the building has evacuation guidance signs to guide personnel to escape, the guidance effect will vary considerably due to the difference in fire points and the correct indication of the static guidance signs. ����esearchers have proposed various intelligent evacuation guidance systems for dynamic evacuation guidance making use of Internet of Things technology, but mostly for the theoretical deduction or prototype system establishment, and lack of practical field verification. Therefore, this study uses a comprehensive intelligent evacuation guidance system (CIGS) to conduct a field validation for indoor evacuation guidance. CIGS is a set of real-time intelligent evacuation guidance systems, which is found in the empirical study that it can effectively improve the evacuation efficiency. By employing CIGS, evacuation time can be shortened by about 32%, and the evacuation personnel can escape more quickly and make the environment safer.