Help Me Evacuate! A Smart Adaptable Evacuation System with Congestion Prediction Capabilities

Emergency evacuation planning is a vital problem that affects building occupants’ safety. The commonly used static plans rely on signs disregarding crowd density changes. Such often lead to congestion at emergency exits; since many occupants tend avoid following exit as they feel safer the crowds exiting or other paths familiar them. This paper proposes smart and adaptable system predicts adapts accordingly minimize time. We introduce simulation model mimics movement in different layouts. proposed performs Monte Carlo simulations forecast possible locations guide away from Guiding directions are displayed updated consider dynamic environment evaluated our approach compared greedy method relies signs, showing significant time improvement of 21% achieved average by approach.