A RFID-Based Hybrid Building Fire Evacuation System on Mobile Phone

Abstract

Building fire is a common disaster happening in our daily life that causes unfortunate casualties and deaths. Successfully escaping from fire depends on the design of evacuation route and time as most of the damage of fire is caused due to lack of evacuation equipments or poor design of the emergency route. In this research work, we designed a hybrid building fire evacuation system (HBFES) on a mobile phone using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) techniques. The system will be implemented at Tamkang University on Lanyang campus where a central fire alarm system has been installed. Location Based Service (LBS) and several existing computer or mobile phone applications, namely Viewpoint Calculator, Path planner, and MobiX3D viewer will be used on the system to rapidly calculate the reliable evacuation routes when building fire takes place.