A system for safe evacuation management of an industrial facility includes an analyzer operable to receive hazardous event indications and situational input. The analyzer can include a cloud engine operative to determine, from the hazardous event indications and the situational input, one or more of location, size, expansion rate, concentration, and motion direction and rate of a hazard at the industrial facility. The analyzer can also include a personnel tracking module operative to generate impacted personnel information from the hazardous event indications and the situational input, an evacuation route engine operative to receive the dynamic-state cloud representation, the impacted personnel information, and a plant model, and to generate therefrom an evacuation route representation, and a rendering engine operative to graphically represent an evacuation route customized for impacted personnel for delivery to user devices of impacted personnel.

A system is provided that includes a security system that protects a secured geographic area, a near field or Bluetooth device proximate an entry of the secured geographic area that captures an identifier of a wireless portable device carried by a user as the user enters the secured geographic area, a sensor of the security system that detects a threat within the secured geographic area, and a processor of the security system that transmits an evacuation map to the wireless portable device based upon the captured identifier, wherein the evacuation map depicts safe geographic exits from the secured geographic area on the evacuation map.

Locational tracking aids emergency management plans. Occupants of a building or campus are determined based on presence or detection of wireless devices. When an emergency occurs, the occupants may move to safety based on the current locations of their wireless devices.

A system is provided that includes a threat detection system having a plurality of threat sensors, a building information model (BIM) of a secured area embodied in memory, an access control system that detects entry by human occupants into the secured area and that provides an overall indication of location of each of the human occupants, an occupant locator and notifier that detects a specific location of human occupants within the secured area via radio waves emitted by a wireless device carried by each of the human occupants, and a safe path calculator that calculates a respective route to a safe exit for each of the human occupants based upon the BIM, a threat, the location of the threat, and the specific or overall indicated location of the human occupant, wherein the occupant location and notifier wirelessly sends the respective calculated route to the wireless device of the human occupant.

Distributed sensing is provided. A first node of a plurality of nodes receives a fire status message from a second node of the plurality of nodes. The fire status message indicates a determination by the second node that an environmental condition exceeds a predetermined threshold. Each node of the plurality of nodes is a computing device. The first node estimates an arrival time of a fire based, at least in part, on the fire status message and a geographic location of the second node. The arrival time is a time until the fire arrives at a predetermined geographic location.

Locational tracking aids emergency management plans. Occupants of a building or campus are determined based on presence or detection of wireless devices. When an emergency occurs, the occupants may move to safety based on the current locations of their wireless devices.

An integrated building evacuation system includes an evacuation controller; a fire alarm system in communication with the evacuation controller; an HVAC system in communication with the evacuation controller; a security system in communication with the evacuation controller; an elevator system in communication with the evacuation controller; and an output device in communication with the evacuation controller; the evacuation controller receiving data from the fire alarm system, the HVAC system, the security system and the elevator system to generate an evacuation path, during an evacuation event, for occupants of a building in response to the data from the fire alarm system, HVAC system, security system and elevator system, the evacuation controller providing the evacuation path to the output device.

Locational tracking aids emergency management plans. Occupants of a building or campus are determined based on presence or detection of wireless devices. When an emergency occurs, the occupants may move to safety based on the current locations of their wireless devices.

Methods and systems for planning evacuation paths are provided to identify an optimum path for evacuation of every evacuee from a region of interest. Methods of the instant disclosure ensure that for each suggested evacuation path, the capacity of any edge on the path is not exceeded and the evacuation time is minimum. A path once identified is maintained. A randomized behavior model is employed to re-distribute evacuees in emergency situations. This provides optimum evacuation time that employs an improved technique with optimized run time and evacuation time after taking into consideration herd behavior.

A system including a threat detection system having a plurality of threat sensors, a building information model (BIM) of the secured area embodied in memory, an access control system that detects entry by human occupants into the secured area and that provide an overall indication of location of each of the human occupants, an occupant locator and notifier that detects a specific location of human occupants within the secured area via radio waves emitted by a wireless device carried by each of the human occupants and a safe path calculator that calculates a respective route to a safe exit for each of the human occupants based upon the BIM, the threat, the location of the threat and the specific or overall indicated location of the human occupant, wherein the occupant location and notifier wirelessly sends the respective calculated route to the wireless device of the human occupant.