Building Evacuation with Mobile Devices

Download or read book Building Evacuation with Mobile Devices written by Sabrina Merkel and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapidly growing world population and increasingly dense settlements demand ever-larger and more complex buildings from today's engineers. In comparison to this technological progress, a building's equipment for emergency evacuation has been hardly developed further. This work presents a concept for a building evacuation system based on mobile devices. Furthermore, various algorithms for route planning with mobile devices and for indoor localization of mobile devices are addressed.