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ABSTRACT
When emergencies happen, navigation services that As emergency or dangerous situations change, it
guide people to exits while keeping them away from becomes necessary to frequently update the route
emergencies are critical in saving lives. To achieve plans for the guided users. Path dynamics in
timely emergency navigation, early and automatic traditional packet routing process typically occurs
detection of potential dangers, and quick response between delivering different packets, while
w such
with safe paths to exits are the core requirements, both dynamics in the navigation process might exist all
of which rely
ly on continuous environment monitoring along for guiding single individuals. People may even
and reliable data transmission. Wireless sensor move backward to seek broader opportunities under
networks (WSNs) are a natural choice of the varied situations.
infrastructure to support emergency navigation
services, given their relatively easy deployment and There have been attempts made at guiding navigation
affordable costs, and thee ability of ubiquitous sensing using WSNs. Most, if not all, existing approaches
and communication. Although many efforts have been assume the availability of locations on each sensor
made to WSN-assisted
assisted emergency navigation, almost node. Knowing the locations of dangerous areas, the
all existing works neglect to consider the hazard sensor network can perform easy and efficient route
levels of emergencies and the evacuation capabilities calculations to navigate internal users out of the
of exits. Without considering
onsidering such aspects, existing emergency area. Thehe location information, however,
navigation approaches may fail to keep people farther may not always be available in many realistic
away from emergencies of high hazard levels and situations where emergency guidance are needed, for
would probably encounter congestions at exits with example, in an underground tunnel or coal mine, a
lower evacuation capabilities. In this proect, we complex indoor area, and so on. The requirement of
propose a situation-awareaware emergency navigation location information largely rgely constrains the
system, which takes the hazard levels of emergencies applicability of existing approaches to location-free
location
and the evacuation capabilities of exits into account environments. In addition, existing approaches
and provides the mobile users the safest navigation usually do not specifically consider the impact of
paths accordingly By guiding users following the variations of dangerous areas, for example, the
descend gradient of the hazard potential field, System expansion, shrinking, or disappearing
disappeari of areas which
thereby can thereby achieve guaranteed success of is deemed dangerous. In reality, such variations often
navigation and provide optimal safety. degrade the effectiveness of existing designs or even
overwhelm them. So far they haven’t take evacuation
Keywords: WSN, Mobile communication,Microcontroller capability of exits into account which makes big
impact in real time.
1. INTRODUCTION
A. About wireless communication in emergency
situation. B. Problem to be solved.
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