Contest: CSIDC 2002
Award: 1st place
Team: Vlad Panait, Mihai Mircea, Tiberius Parcalabu
Mentor: Nicolae TapusLinks: (PowerPoint Presentation) ( Project Report)(BE Secure: The Movie)
In the news:
IEEE Xplore article
Chip.ro article
Abstract:
After the September 11th attack in New York City, people started considering whether there are ways to help and inform people in case of disasters, such that quick intervention at the affected area is possible with maximum effects. The proposed system is intended to operate for structures visited by a large number of people. We developed a low-priced wireless distributed system that collects data from different sensors and informs both the people inside (they are directed on the shortest safest exit paths) and the outside parties (police or firemen service that can use the information for better rescue operations). In case of a catastrophe (fire, earthquake, terrorist attack, etc.), even if a part of the proposed system is destroyed, the rest uses existing information to guide rescue operations. Moreover, lack of information (possibly together with other information like “temperature was very high before communication was interrupted”) may be interpreted as “seriously damaged area”, leading to calculating safe-exit paths around it.
The system consists of a distributed LAPE (Local Acquisition and Processing Element) network that has as main function the monitoring of the parameters in a large building. The data collected by one of the LAPEs is shared in the whole system via Bluetooth devices. Each individual LAPE calculates the best exit path based on the status of the building. The system also communicates the state of the whole building to the outside parties for surveillance tasks.
The intervention teams can create good and realistic emergency plans based on the information collected by the system. They can also direct people to a new evacuation mean available (an intervention helicopter, for example). In case of emergency, it is feasible to envision that human experts override the directions by new ones, in case they have other information not available to the system. The system is designed as an Open Interface, implying it easily supports the addition of sensors and functionality to the structure.
The system consists of a distributed LAPE (Local Acquisition and Processing Element) network that has as main function the monitoring of the parameters in a large building. The data collected by one of the LAPEs is shared in the whole system via Bluetooth devices. Each individual LAPE calculates the best exit path based on the status of the building. The system also communicates the state of the whole building to the outside parties for surveillance tasks.
The intervention teams can create good and realistic emergency plans based on the information collected by the system. They can also direct people to a new evacuation mean available (an intervention helicopter, for example). In case of emergency, it is feasible to envision that human experts override the directions by new ones, in case they have other information not available to the system. The system is designed as an Open Interface, implying it easily supports the addition of sensors and functionality to the structure.
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