Emergency guiding and monitoring applications in indoor 3D environments by wireless sensor networks Export

@article{citeulike:5632218, abstract = {Recently, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been widely discussed in many applications. In this paper, we propose a novel Three-Dimensional (3D) emergency service that aims to guide people to safe places when emergencies happen. At normal time, the network is responsible for monitoring the environment. When emergency events are detected, the network can adaptively modify its topology to ensure transportation reliability, quickly identify hazardous regions that should be avoided and find safe navigation paths that can lead people to exits. In particular, the structures of Three-Dimensional buildings are taken into account in our design. Simulation results shows that our protocols can adapt emergencies quickly at low message cost and can find safer paths to exits than existing results}, author = {Pan, Meng-Shiuan and Tsai, Chia-Hung and Tseng, Yu-Chee}, citeulike-article-id = {5632218}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.metapress.com/content/7kyn1lyul0cy2geg}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~yctseng/papers.pub/sensor10-3d-navigation-ijsn.pdf}, day = {1}, journal = {International Journal of Sensor Networks}, keywords = {reprogramming, sensor-network, work}, month = {January}, number = {1}, pages = {2--10}, posted-at = {2009-08-24 17:35:28}, priority = {2}, title = {Emergency guiding and monitoring applications in indoor 3D environments by wireless sensor networks}, url = {http://www.metapress.com/content/7kyn1lyul0cy2geg}, volume = {1}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5632218 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5632218 N2 - Recently, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been widely discussed in many applications. In this paper, we propose a novel Three-Dimensional (3D) emergency service that aims to guide people to safe places when emergencies happen. At normal time, the network is responsible for monitoring the environment. When emergency events are detected, the network can adaptively modify its topology to ensure transportation reliability, quickly identify hazardous regions that should be avoided and find safe navigation paths that can lead people to exits. In particular, the structures of Three-Dimensional buildings are taken into account in our design. Simulation results shows that our protocols can adapt emergencies quickly at low message cost and can find safer paths to exits than existing results IS - 1 JF - International Journal of Sensor Networks EP - 10 TI - Emergency guiding and monitoring applications in indoor 3D environments by wireless sensor networks VL - 1 SP - 2 KW - reprogramming KW - sensor-network KW - work AU - Pan, Meng-Shiuan AU - Tsai, Chia-Hung AU - Tseng, Yu-Chee PY - 2006/01/01/ UR - http://www.metapress.com/content/7kyn1lyul0cy2geg ER -