| Title |
u-Disaster Prevention System based Real-Time Fire Monitoring in a Building Facility |
| Authors |
Moon, Sung-Woo ; Seong, Hyun-Jin |
| Keywords |
Disaster Prevention Management ; Ubiquitous ; USN ; Real-Time Monitoring ; Fire Preparation |
| Abstract |
The building infrastructures such as high-rise buildings, shopping malls, exhibition centers, etc. are becoming larger in magnitude and more complex in complexity. Considering a large number of tenants and visitors are staying in these facilities, it is upper most important to keep those in safe from fire outbreak. In this paper, a u-Disaster Prevention System has been presented to provide effective fire evacuation when fire breaks out in building infrastructures. The ubiquitous sensor network (USN) technology was applied to detect heat and smoke from fire outbreak. The information then is transmitted wirelessly to a host computer. The tenants and visitors residing in the facility can evacuate following the instruction that is displayed in LED sign boards of the u-Disaster Prevention System. A case study shows that the ubiquitous environment can help people evacuate faster in time, shorter in distance with the assistance of the u-Disaster Prevention System. |