Using Smartphones for Indoor Fire Evacuation

Tzu-Wen Kuo, Ching-Yuan Lin, Ying-Ji Chuang and Gary Li-Kai Hsiao
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Tzu-Wen Kuo: Department of Architecture, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106335, Taiwan
Ching-Yuan Lin: Department of Architecture, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106335, Taiwan
Ying-Ji Chuang: Department of Architecture, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106335, Taiwan
Gary Li-Kai Hsiao: Department of Preparedness and Emergency Response, Office of Disaster Management, New Taipei City 220242, Taiwan

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 10, 1-8

Abstract: Fire smoke reduces the visibility of emergency direction signs, rendering them ineffective for providing appropriate guidance along evacuation routes in a fire situation. This is problematic because civilians may select evacuation routes that expose them to smoke or fire in a burning building. This study proposed using a smartphone voice-guided evacuation system (SVGES) to provide alternative evacuation routes for civilians trapped at a fire scene. To verify the efficacy of the SVGES, experiments were conducted with 26 participants in a simulated fire scenario. The experimental results showed that when using the SVGES, the participants chose the safest evacuation route with a 100% successful evacuation rate.

Keywords: smartphone; fire; evacuation; smartphone voice-guided evacuation system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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