Study of Intelligent Evacuation Systems of High-Rise Buildings in India-a review

The paper gives review of literature related to the fire evacuation systems in High-Rise Buildings. It studies the egress components namely stairs, elevators, sky-bridges, and refuge areas to implement one or more evacuation strategies namely total, phased, defend-in-place and delayed evacuation strategy. It reviews the Intelligent Evacuation Management System as an amalgamation of evacuation models (coarse, fine and continuous approach models) and crowd monitoring (GPS, Bluetooth, Computer Vision, RFID, and IR Transmitter and Receiver technology) and prediction (video and non-video based) strategies. It aims to study the technology used in International High-Rise Building Evacuation Systems so as to validate it to improve the evacuation systems in existing High-Rise Buildings in India. This decision model is devised based on information available in the form building and egress specifications as well as information variables like occupant density (RFID technology), spread and location of fire (Smoke Sensor Technology), etc. using the state-of-art technology to guide the rescue team for fast and safe evacuation.