The disclosed technology uses signaling devices and sensors that are distributed throughout a building in order to provide egress guidance to people located in a building when an emergency occurs. Such signaling devices can be located at or near doors, windows, and/or other junction points between different parts of a building (e.g., passageways between different rooms). Signaling devices can provide audio and/or visual information to people to guide them along a safe pathway that is selected to provide safe egress for the person, including anticipating and protecting the person from changing emergency conditions within the building.

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.

A server associated with a building automation emergency response system, receives indications of a detected emergency from sensors distributed among zones in the building, comprising a sensor reading level and a sensor identity. The server determines a zone danger level, based on the sensor identity and on the sensor reading levels. The server calculates an evacuation route commencing from user interfaces distributed among the zones. The user interfaces include a display device. The evacuation route is calculated to traverse the zones with a lower route danger level. The evacuation route is directed toward a safe exit, based on a floor plan. The server then transmits a depiction of the evacuation route to the user interfaces for display. The server continues receiving updated indications from the sensors, determines updated route danger levels, calculates an updated evacuation route, and transmits an updated depiction of the evacuation route to the user interfaces for display.

An emergency guidance and advisement system is provided to automatically determine a floor map of a building and using the floor map for advising how to exit the building during an emergency, such as a fire. The system can automatically create an escape plan, based on pre-disaster and in-disaster motion detection of users within the home, and provide dynamic advisement to guide users out of the home during an emergency.

A method that includes receiving a data stream from point monitoring cases proximate to confined spaces, the data stream include at least on camera feed of the confined space, generating a display from the data stream for a single display device, wherein the display comprises a tile view including a tile for each confined space of confined spaces being monitored. The tile includes at least one camera feed from a camera located at the confined space, a number of workers in proximity to the confined space, wherein the number of workers is displayed in the tile above the at least one camera feed, control buttons located in the tile to a right of the at least one camera feed, and gas sensor indicators located in the tile.

A device, system and method for evacuation task management is provided. A computing device: receives initial sensor data from sensors of a building; generates respective evacuation instructions for evacuating persons and objects from the building for each of responders, the respective evacuation instructions generated from rules for evacuating the building and the initial sensor data, each person or object associated with at least one of the sensors; transmits the respective evacuation instructions to a respective communication device of the responders; monitors updated sensor data from the sensors during evacuation of the building and location information associated with each of the responders, to track compliance with the respective evacuation instructions; and transmits updated respective evacuation instructions to the respective communication device of one or more of the responders, the updated respective evacuation instructions based on monitored updated sensor data and monitored location information received after transmitting the respective evacuation instructions.

Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods for managing building pathway information. A building and/or security management system can detect, based on receiving input from multiple sensor devices, a possible safety issue in a first pathway to an egress of a building, determine, based on detecting the possible safety issue and based on information regarding other pathways in the building, a second pathway to the egress of the building, and indicate at least the second pathway to another system.

The states of multiple buildings are shared via a computer network. State information may include current occupancy and exit location. An electronic representation of a coordinated evacuation plan is generated for the buildings based on the shared state. Generation of the coordinated evacuation plan includes selecting an evacuation zone to receive building occupants. The coordinated evacuation plan is electronically transmitted to an electronic device of a building occupant to facilitate evacuation of the buildings during an incident.

In a system and method for managing evacuations of buildings, in response to detection of a fire, a control panel initiates an alarm condition and activates annunciation devices to signal that an evacuation of the building is required. A positioning and evacuation system tracks locations of occupants in the building and the progression of the fire. The positioning and evacuation system generates individualized evacuation paths for the occupants, which are transmitted to and displayed on mobile computing devices of the occupants. Additionally, the positioning and evacuation system generates turn by turn directions of the individualized evacuation paths, which are displayed on three dimensional maps or with augmented reality on the mobile computing devices of the occupants.

A method for rescue support involves distributing transponder devices to individuals in a geographic region and causing the transponder devices to be activated. If a large-scale emergency situation occurs, a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles are operated within the geographic region to receive distress signals transmitted by the activated transponder devices. A computer system processes the distress signals to obtain detection data for the individuals, the detection data comprising a location of the respective transponder device and a health status of the respective individual. The computer system generates, based on the location and health status of the respective individual, a prioritization chart for the geographic region, the prioritization chart being indicative of one or more sub-regions to be prioritized for a rescue operation.