Disaster Detection in Emergency Rescue Evacuation Support System (ERESS) for Safe and Secure Life

Abstract

We are developing an Emergency Rescue Evacuation Support System (ERESS) to support evacuation in the occurrence of a localized disaster. This system automatically detects disasters quickly using only mobile terminals equipped with multiple sensors, such as smartphones, and provides real-time disaster information to disaster evacuees. In this paper, we propose a new disaster detection method that combines sensor information and human detection in order to improve the reliability of the detection method. The proposed method enhances the reliability of disaster occurrence detection and enables prompt notification of the occurrence of the disaster for disaster evacuees who are not facing the disaster. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, we evaluate its performance through demonstration experiments.