A facility information access system, comprising: a housing positioned in a location proximate to a facility, wherein the housing is accessible to pedestrians at ground level. The housing defines an internal cavity and comprises an access cover to block unauthorised physical access to the internal cavity. A facility information device housed inside the housing and comprises: a processor; a communication interface accessible by the processor and configured to allow exchange of information with devices external of the housing; and a memory storing executable program instructions accessible by the processor. The processor is configured to execute program instructions to: receive facility information from an external computing device through the communication interface, wherein the facility information relates to the facility; store the received facility information in the memory; receive a request to access the facility information through the communication interface; and in response to the request, determine whether the first request is an authorised request and, if the request is an authorised request, transmit the facility information through the communication interface.

To provide a guidance system that can quickly guide a person along a guidance route without anxiety. Provided are: a plurality of unit control apparatuses; and a plurality of unit light emitting apparatuses controlled by the unit control apparatuses, wherein at normal times, light emitting elements of a plurality of light emitting apparatuses of the plurality of unit light emitting apparatuses are continuously lit at an illuminance of 100%, and at guidance, the illuminance of the light emitting elements of the plurality of light emitting apparatuses of the plurality of unit display apparatuses is attenuated to 30%, and then the illuminance of the light emitting elements of the plurality of light emitting apparatuses of the plurality of unit display apparatuses is sequentially controlled to 100% based on count values stored in an emergency exit number count value storage unit to generate an optical flow toward a guidance direction.

A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing route generation with augmented reality. A crowd or event is analyzed and escape routes are intelligently distributed by attendee profile type or ability. Augmented Reality (AR) projections are used representing different subsets of an event population to convey the profile-specific escape routes for people to follow. The AR behavior is changed as an event situation changes.

Systems and methods for planning location-sensitive probabilistic behavior based evacuation paths, in a building, from source nodes to sink nodes in a network of routes including a plurality of vertices and edges are disclosed. For example, input parameters including layouts, number of evacuees at each source node, transit time, predetermined time period and maximum capacity associated with each edge and vertex are received. Further, weak evacuation schedules at a state of the evacuees are defined based on the layouts of the building, number of evacuees, transit time and predetermined time period. Furthermore, a strong evacuation schedule is defined based on the weak evacuation schedules and maximum capacity associated with each edge and vertex. Moreover, a mapping is defined from the strong evacuation schedule to the weak evacuation schedules to obtain a probabilistic behavior model. Also, an evacuation path is planned, in real-time, based on the probabilistic behavior model.

Embodiments of the present disclosure include an efficient and accurate method for presenting victim locations to emergency responders. The method disclosed can be used to track individuals still remaining in a building in case of an emergency. The method comprises determining a location for an individual by receiving a device identifier (e.g., combination of numbers and/or characters uniquely identifying a receiving device associated with the individual) and location information, received from one or more beacons, from the receiving device. The method comprises determining a first location associated with the receiving device based on the location information and/or the device identifier. The method comprises determining different locations associated with the individual as the individual moves and determining whether the individual is still within the building. The method comprises, displaying location information and instructions to reach the individual in case of an emergency.

Position of persons inside a building is determined and stored as position information. In addition, in a case where a disaster under which evacuation guidance to outside the building should be provided to the persons inside is detected, an evacuation route for the persons inside is created based on the position information and a pseudo leader is generated in front of the persons inside on the evacuation route based on the position information and the evacuation route. Particularly, the pseudo leader is generated in front of a header among the persons inside on the evacuation route.

A method for monitoring devices based at least in part on detected conditions includes accumulating, by one or more sensory nodes, sensed information in an area that includes a controllable device. The method also includes analyzing the sensed information to identify historical information regarding the area that includes the controllable device. The method also includes sensing a condition within the area by the one or more sensory nodes. The method also includes determining, based at least in part on the sensed condition and at least in part on the historical information, that the sensed condition relates to the controllable device. The method further includes generating, responsive to said determining, an alert regarding the controllable device.

Provided is an evacuation prediction system with which it is possible to cope with various situations related to evacuation at the time of estimating the time required for the evacuation of disaster victims.

An evacuation prediction system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes model generating means for generating an evacuation sub-model representing an evacuation route for each evacuee and a position of the evacuee on the evacuation route, a recovery sub-model representing recovery status at each of trouble occurrence sites each of which is a site where a trouble occurred on the evacuation route, and relation information representing a relation between the evacuation sub-model and the recovery sub-model based on evacuation information relating to the evacuation route for the evacuee and recovery information relating to recovery timing at the trouble occurrence site, and analysis means for predicting time required for the evacuee to evacuate by analyzing the evacuation sub-model, the recovery sub-model, and the relation information.

A system and method for indoor spatial mapping. The system includes a mobile mapping device having a camera; a plan database configured to store 2-D floor plans; and a processor configured to integrate a selected floor plan from the plan database with object data received from the mobile mapping device to create an interactable 3-D spatial mapping of an interior portion of a structure so that one or more objects are moveable relative to a surrounding environment within the 3-D spatial mapping. The processor is configured to recognise objects from an image from the camera and anchor the recognised object within the interactable 3-D spatial mapping.

A method, a system, and a computer program product may be provided for generating indoor emergency route plan for an infrastructure. The method includes obtaining indoor map data of the infrastructure, where the indoor map data comprises one or more first exit routes to one or more exits in the infrastructure. The method further includes obtaining first location data associated with an indoor emergency event. The method further includes generating one or more second exit routes to the one or more exits, based on the first location data and the one or more first exit routes. The method further includes providing the one or more second exit routes to one or more subjects.