Patent Application
20220307839
The present invention is based on the priority of Japanese patent application No. 2019-112600 (filed on Jun. 18, 2019), the entire contents of the same application are incorporated by reference into the present application.
The present invention relates to an evacuation guidance system, an evacuation guidance apparatus, an evacuation guidance method and an evacuation guidance program. Particularly, the present invention relates to an evacuation guidance system, an evacuation guidance apparatus, an evacuation guidance method and an evacuation guidance program for quick evacuation of persons inside a building to outside.
An illuminated exit sign, etc., which indicate a position of an evacuation door and an evacuation direction, are arranged on a facility gathering a crowd, such as a commercial building, a stadium, a hall for holding events and the like, for a purpose of quick evacuation of persons inside (i.e., victims) to outside upon occurrence of a disaster, such as a fire and the like. For a similar purpose, for example, Patent Literature 1 discloses a technology that projects an evacuation route on a wall, etc., with a projector.
PTL: Japanese patent No. JP4010273B
The following analysis is made from an aspect of the present invention. Herein, disclosure of the document cited in the Citation List is incorporated into the present application by reference.
There is a problem that a psychologically pertinent evacuation guidance cannot be achieved by only indicating an evacuation route, such as the technology disclosed in Patent Literature 1. For example, there are cases where people encountering a disaster fallen in panic upon occurrence of a disaster make an independent route determination due to unreliable feeling on the indicated evacuation route. In addition, it is also considered that the people confronted with the disaster would stray into an incorrect route due to lights out or generation of smoke, even if they intend to follow the indicated evacuation route.
Accordingly, it is a purpose of the present invention to provide an evacuation guidance system, an evacuation guidance apparatus, an evacuation guidance method and an evacuation guidance program, which contribute to achieve an efficient evacuation guidance.
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an evacuation guidance system, comprising:
a position information management apparatus that determines position of persons inside a building and manages the position as position information,
a disaster detection apparatus that detects a disaster under which an evacuation guidance should be provided to the persons inside so as to evacuate them to outside of the building,
an evacuation route creation apparatus that creates an evacuation route for the persons inside based on the position information in a case where the disaster detection apparatus detects a disaster, and
a pseudo leader generation apparatus that generates a pseudo leader in front of the persons inside on the evacuation route based on the position information and the evacuation route.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an evacuation guidance apparatus, comprising:
a position information management part that determines position of persons inside a building and manages the position as position information,
an evacuation route creation part that creates an evacuation route for the persons inside based on the position information in a case where a disaster is detected, and
a pseudo leader generation part that generates a pseudo leader in front of the persons inside on the evacuation route based on the position information and the evacuation route.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided an evacuation guidance method, comprising:
a step of determining position of persons inside a building and managing the position as position information,
a step of creating an evacuation route for the persons inside based on the position information in a case where a disaster is detected, and
a step of generating a pseudo leader in front of the persons inside on the evacuation route based on the position information and the evacuation route.
According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an evacuation guidance program, that causes a computer to implement:
a process of determining position of persons inside a building and managing the position as position information,
a process of creating an evacuation route for the persons inside based on the position information in a case where a disaster is detected, and a process of generating a pseudo leader in front of the persons inside on the evacuation route based on the position information and the evacuation route.
According to each aspect of the present invention, there are provided an evacuation guidance system, an evacuation guidance apparatus, an evacuation guidance method and an evacuation guidance program, which may achieve efficient evacuation guidance.
A preferable example embodiment of the present invention is explained in detail while referring to drawings. Herein, symbols in the following description are expediently attached to each element as an explanatory aid for understanding, but not for limitation of the present invention to an illustrated configuration. Herein, a connection line in a circuit configuration illustrated in drawings includes bidirectional connection excepting for a case of being particularly indicated. An opposite direction is not excluded even in a case of one way arrow.
First, one outline of the present invention is explained while referring to drawings. As illustrated in
The position information management apparatus 110 determines position of persons inside a building (may be abbreviated as “inside”) and manages the position as position information. The disaster detection apparatus 120 detects a disaster under which an evacuation guidance should be provided to the persons inside so as to evacuate them to outside of the building. The evacuation route creation apparatus 130 creates an evacuation route for the persons inside based on the position information in a case where the disaster detection apparatus 120 detects a disaster. The pseudo leader generation apparatus 140 generates a pseudo leader in front of the persons inside on the evacuation route based on the position information and the evacuation route.
Accordingly, the evacuation guidance system 100 of the present invention achieves a psychologically pertinent evacuation guidance, because the pseudo leader leads the persons inside to outside of the building. That is, only indication of an evacuation route would exert a mere “guide” effect based on a “follow-direction method”. However, the present invention exerts “lead” effect based on a “follow-me method”. Herein, with respect to the difference between the “follow-direction method” and the “follow-me method”, please see the following literatures and the like.
Simulation to follow-direction method and follow-me method at emergency evacuation
https://www.media.hosei.ac.jp/bulletin_archives/vol20_11.pdf (internet search on May 20, 2019)
Action/research on evacuation guidance method under an emergency evacuation situation, Experimental Social Psychology, 1984, Vol. 23, No. 2, 107-115
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jjesp1971/23/2/23_2_107/_pdf (internet search on May 20, 2019)
[Note, the term “lead” means to go ahead in front of followers so as to evacuate them. The term “guide” is interchangeable with “navigate” and means to provide information for evacuation.]
In a following first example embodiment, the evacuation guidance system 100 explained in the above outline is concretely explained. Herein, the first example embodiment is a mere exemplification, but not a limitation of the present invention to the mode explained below.
Similar to the above outline, the evacuation guidance system 100 of the first example embodiment comprises a position information management apparatus 110, a disaster detection apparatus 120, an evacuation route creation apparatus 130 and a pseudo leader generation apparatus 140.
The position information management apparatus 110 is connected to a large number of position detection apparatuses. The position detection apparatuses are apparatuses for detecting the position of persons inside a building, such as, for example, a radio communication apparatus that communicates with a device carried by the persons inside and/or a camera capturing the persons inside. The position detection apparatuses are arranged not only in a room(s), on a passage(s), in an elevator hall(s), which are usually used, but also on an emergency passage(s) and emergency steps/stairs for evacuation, etc. In addition, it is desired that the position detection apparatuses may accurately detect the position of the persons inside (preferably, to an extent of one meter or less), and thus it is considered to apply, for example, Bluetooth (Registered trademark) of Class 3, an RFID technology, a radar technology and the like. The device carried by the persons inside may be a [mobile] terminal held by each of individuals, for example, a cellular phone and the like, and an entrance card provided with an IC (Integrated Circuit) tag.
The position information management apparatus 110 determines position of persons inside a building via the position detection apparatuses and manages the position as position information. A storage part of the position information management apparatus 110 stores the position information, and the position information is updated in real-time based on information obtained via the position detection apparatuses. For example, the position information shown in
The disaster detection apparatus 120 detects a disaster under which evacuation guidance to outside of the building should be provided to the persons inside. Concretely, the disaster detection apparatus 120 comprises a sensor(s) that detects flame and smoke generated upon a fire, and transmits a detection result to the evacuation route creation apparatus 130.
The evacuation route creation apparatus 130 is realized as a computer comprising an interface, an input part, an output part, a storage part and a processing part, and connected in a communicable manner with the position information management apparatus 110, the disaster detection apparatus 120 and the pseudo leader generation apparatus 140. Particularly, the evacuation route creation apparatus 130 previously stores an evacuation route map in the storage part. In addition, the evacuation route creation apparatus 130 acquires the position information from the position information management apparatus 110 when it receives a detection result indicating occurrence of a disaster from the disaster detection apparatus 120 so as to create an evacuation route so as to avoid overlapping with the position of the disaster detection apparatus 120 that has notified the detection result.
The pseudo leader generation apparatus 140 generates a pseudo leader in front of the persons inside on the evacuation route based on the position information and the evacuation route. Concretely, the pseudo leader generation apparatus 140 is connected with a large number of performance presentation apparatuses arranged at a variety of positions inside a building. The performance presentation apparatus comprises a projector, a display, a speaker and the like, and generates the pseudo leader by presenting a performance as if a real evacuation leader exists. The pseudo leader is exemplified by, for example,
Hereinafter, a sequential flow is explained by exemplifying a situation that the evacuation guidance system 100 of the present invention is applied to a commercial building and persons being in a room 1 illustrated in
First, it is provided that, at a time point before an occurrence of disaster, the position information management apparatus 110 has determined position of persons inside a building and managed the position as position information. Herein, the determination of the position by the position information management apparatus 110 may be triggered by the occurrence of a disaster.
When a disaster occurs, the disaster detection apparatus 120 transmits a detection result to the evacuation route creation apparatus 130, and the evacuation route creation apparatus 130 creates an evacuation route, for example, as illustrated in
At that situation, a target of the leading performance is the header, and the performance is not provided to the followers. That is, performed is a leader who executes evacuation guidance by calling “Follow me!” to one header or several peoples, for example, as illustrated in
A process flow by the evacuation guidance system 100 is explained. As shown in
As described above, according to the evacuation guidance system 100 of the first example embodiment, the pseudo leader evacuates the persons inside to outside by leading them, thus a psychologically pertinent evacuation guidance based on the “follow-me method” may be achieved. In addition, according to the evacuation guidance system 100 of the first example embodiment, it is prevented that people encountering a disaster stray into an incorrect route since the pseudo leader leads them.
In the following example embodiment 2, variations of the evacuation guidance system 100 of the first example embodiment are explained.
Although it is explained that the position information management apparatus 110, the evacuation route creation apparatus 130 and the pseudo leader generation apparatus 140 are individual apparatuses in the evacuation guidance system 100 of the first example embodiment, these apparatuses may be configured as one integrated evacuation guidance apparatus. Herein, in the evacuation guidance apparatus, each of the apparatuses in the evacuation guidance system 100 respectively functions as the position information management part, the evacuation route creation part and the pseudo leader generation part. Herein, the position detection apparatuses, the disaster detection apparatus 120, the performance presentation apparatuses may be configured as apparatuses different from the evacuation guidance apparatus since they are arranged at a variety of positions in a facility. Herein, the position detection apparatuses, the disaster detection apparatus 120, the performance presentation apparatuses may be integrated to one apparatus.
The above described evacuation guidance apparatus may be realized as a computer comprising an interface, a storage part and a processing part as illustrated in
The evacuation route may be appropriately corrected depending on expansion of the disaster. That is, in a case where a disaster is detected by a disaster detection apparatus 120 arranged on a created evacuation route, the evacuation route creation apparatus 130 corrects the evacuation route so that the evacuation route does not overlap with the position of the disaster detection apparatus 120 concerned. In addition, the pseudo leader generation apparatus 140 corrects the direction for leading by the pseudo leader based on the evacuation route corrected by the evacuation route creation apparatus 130.
In addition, under a situation in which persons inside is divided into a plurality of groups, the pseudo leader may be generated for each of groups. That is, the pseudo leader generation apparatus 140 may determine a following group from the position information, who are apart from the header lead by the pseudo leader at a distance of a threshold or more, and generate the pseudo leader in front of a header of the following group. For example, it is considered to detect opening and closing of a door between a room and a passage and a door between a passage and emergency steps/stairs, and recognize a person who passes the door at first as the header upon once of opening of the door and recognize peoples who pass the door until the door is closed as one group. Herein, a senser may be arranged, which detects opening and closing of the door and passing through of peoples, and/or the passing through of peoples may be detected with a camera.
A part or entire of the above example embodiments may be described as the following modes, but not limited thereto.
An evacuation guidance system, comprising:
a position information management apparatus that determines position of persons inside a building and manages the position as position information,
a disaster detection apparatus that detects a disaster under which an evacuation guidance should be provided to the persons inside so as to evacuate them to outside of the building,
an evacuation route creation apparatus that creates an evacuation route for the persons inside based on the position information in a case where the disaster detection apparatus detects a disaster, and
a pseudo leader generation apparatus that generates a pseudo leader in front of the persons inside on the evacuation route based on the position information and the evacuation route.
The evacuation guidance system according to Mode 1, wherein the pseudo leader generation apparatus generates the pseudo leader in front of a heading person on the evacuation route among the persons inside.
The evacuation guidance system according to Mode 2, wherein the pseudo leader generation apparatus generates the pseudo leader in front of the heading person on the evacuation route within a visually recognizable range.
The evacuation guidance system according to Mode 2 or 3, wherein the pseudo leader generation apparatus makes a performance for urging persons other than the heading person among the persons inside to follow the heading person.
An evacuation guidance apparatus, comprising:
a position information management part that determines position of persons inside a building and manages the position as position information,
an evacuation route creation part that creates an evacuation route for the persons inside based on the position information in a case where a disaster is detected, and
a pseudo leader generation part that generates a pseudo leader in front of the persons inside on the evacuation route based on the position information and the evacuation route.
An evacuation guidance method, comprising:
a step of determining position of persons inside a building and managing the position as position information,
a step of creating an evacuation route for the persons inside based on the position information in a case where a disaster is detected, and
a step of generating a pseudo leader in front of the persons inside on the evacuation route based on the position information and the evacuation route.
An evacuation guidance program, that causes a computer to implement: a process of determining position of persons inside a building and managing the position as position information,
a process of creating an evacuation route for the persons inside based on the position information in a case where a disaster is detected, and
a process of generating a pseudo leader in front of the persons inside on the evacuation route based on the position information and the evacuation route.
Disclosure of the Patent Literature above is incorporated in the present application by reference thereto, and may be used as a base or a part of the present invention as necessary. The exemplary embodiments or examples may be modified or adjusted within the scope of the entire disclosure of the present invention, inclusive of claims, based on the fundamental technical concept of the invention. In addition, a variety of combinations or selection (including non-selection) of elements disclosed herein, inclusive each element in each claim, each element in each exemplary embodiment or example, each element in each drawing etc., may be made within the context of entire disclosure of the present inventions. That is, the present invention may include a variety of modifications or corrections that may be made by those skilled in the art in accordance with the entire disclosure of the present invention, inclusive of claims, and the technical concept of the present invention. Further, it is regarded as being included in the described matters of the present application to use a part or entire of each of the disclosed matter in the cited Literature in combination with the described matters of the present application as a part of the description of the present invention as necessary and on the basis of the concept of the present invention.
100 evacuation guidance system
110 position information management apparatus
120 disaster detection apparatus
130 evacuation route creation apparatus
140 pseudo leader generation apparatus
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-112600 | Jun 2019 | JP | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/JP2020/023692 | 6/17/2020 | WO |
