Verifying Indoor Evacuation-Guiding Scenario by Simulation

Abstract

We are implementing an indoor evacuation guidance system on the assumption that indoor positioning and congestion sensing techniques are established. Because effective evacuation strategy is greatly transformed according to the congestion of evacuation route, approach to present an automatically acquired strategy suitable for the situation is desirable for such system. In this paper, effectiveness of the acquired strategy compared with a strategy of escaping from the nearest emergency exit and stability of the system performance when the ratio of users changes are verified on an evacuation simulator.