TY - JOUR
AU - Shimakawa, Hiromitsu
AB - In this paper, we propose a method which aims to allow people inside a building to evacuate when a disaster occurs. In particular, it is very difficult for them to evacuate safely in blackout conditions with servers down. In the proposed method, passive RFID tags are placed on the walls of the building and each evacuee carries a mobile terminal that is battery‐powered and equipped with an RFID reader‐writer. This device finds evacuation routes based on the information from passive RFID tags touched by the evacuee. The method identifies safety of evacuation routes from the movement of people who have evacuated safely. Mobile terminal communication and RFID tags achieve sharing of information on safe routes among many evacuees. An experiment was conducted, letting people evacuate by two routes in an actual building, and giving about half of them mobile terminals. We easured the increases in the blood pressure and heart rates of the evacuees before and after the evacuation. In both routes, the rates of increase of these two characteristics in the evacuees with terminals were smaller than those in the evacuees without terminals, demonstrating that the proposed method provides assurance to evacuees. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 177(2): 19–31, 2011; Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI 10.1002/eej.21165
TI - Reassuring evacuation guidance with mobile terminal communication and RFID system in absence of power supply
JF - Electrical Engineering in Japan
DO - 10.1002/eej.21165
DA - 2011-11-15
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/reassuring-evacuation-guidance-with-mobile-terminal-communication-and-PKL1o9NP5G
SP - 19
EP - 31
VL - 177
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -