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Design and Implementation of LoRa-based Emergency Exit Guide System

LoRa 기반 피난 유도 체계의 설계 및 구현

  • Shin, Jaejun (Department of Information and Communication, Hannam University) ;
  • Eun, Seongbae (Department of Information and Communication, Hannam University) ;
  • So, Sun-Sup (Department of Computer Science, Kongju National University) ;
  • Kim, Byungho (Department of Computer Science, Kyungsung University)
  • Received : 2018.01.08
  • Accepted : 2018.04.02
  • Published : 2018.04.30
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Abstract

This paper proposes and implements a LoRa-based emergency exit guide system which can direct the optimal refuge path accounting for the real state of the fires. Each 4-way emergency exit guide sign presents a right direction through one of four LED signs toward the possible exit dynamically calculated by the shortest path algorithm. We constructed a simulation environment with 8 spots of the emergency exit guide signs and 2 exits, which can simulate variant cases of fire accidents, and showed that the proposed algorithm can presents the right guidance for each emergency exit guide sign. We also evaluated the performances of LoRa-based wireless communications using a self developed communication module in the various indoor and outdoor environments. The proposed system can be applied to small and medium sized buildings as well as larger ones in terms of cost efficiency, in which there's no needs to invest for the complex equipments except only sensors and emergency exit guide signs.

본 논문에서는 동적으로 설정되는 피난 유도 표지에 실시간 화재 상황을 반영한 최적의 피난 경로를 제시하는 LoRa 기반 피난 유도 체계를 설계하고 구현한다. 각 피난 유도 표지는 전후좌우를 나타내는 4개의 LED 지시등으로 구성되고 화재 발생 시 실시간으로 계산된 최적의 대피 경로를 화살표로 표시한다. 제안 알고리즘의 검증을 위해 동적인 화재 상황을 모의 생성하는 시뮬레이션 환경을 구축하여 다양한 지점에서 화재가 발생했을 때 각각의 피난 유도 표지가 정확한 피난 경로를 안내하는지 여부를 검증하였다. 또한 LoRa 기반 무선통신의 성능 확인을 위해 실내, 실내 대 실외, 실외 환경에서 데이터 전송률을 측정하였다. 제안하는 시스템은 다수의 피난 유도 표지 설치 외에는 시스템 운영을 위한 추가 설비가 필요 없다는 측면에서 대형 건물은 물론 중소형 건물에도 쉽게 적용할 수 있다.

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