LifeBelt: Crowd Evacuation Based on Vibro-Tactile Guidance

Alois Ferscha; Kashif Zia

doi:10.1109/mprv.2010.83

LifeBelt: Crowd Evacuation Based on Vibro-Tactile Guidance

Alois Ferscha, Kashif Zia

Institute of Pervasive Computing

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Abstract

To increase crowd evacuation efficiency in emergency situations, the authors developed a wearable computer, LifeBelt, to guide individuals from emergency situations to escape. The LifeBelt collects position and orientation information about individuals from embedded sensors, shares this information with a background emergency coordination system, receives an individualized optimized escape strategy, and guides the individual via vibro-tactile stimulation, indicating direction and distance to the recommended exit. Simulation models indicate that the number of successful evacuations per unit time improve significantly using the LifeBelt technology.

Original language	English
Article number	5586692
Number of pages	10
Journal	IEEE Pervasive Computing
Volume	9
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/mprv.2010.83
Publication status	Published - Oct 2010

Fields of science

102 Computer Sciences
102001 Artificial intelligence
102018 Artificial neural networks

JKU Focus areas

Engineering and Natural Sciences (in general)

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10.1109/mprv.2010.83

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