Providing a route guide using building information modeling (BIM) data

• US 10,295,350 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2017
• Issued: 05/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Nishimura, Yasutaka, Tada, Masami, Takajo, Akihiko, Tashiro, Takahito
• Primary Examiner(s): Do, Truc M
• Application Number:
  US15/844,761
• Publication Number:
  US 20180128626A1
• Time in Patent Office: 519 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/206 specially adapted for indoor navigation
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3484 Personalized, e.g. from learned user behaviour or user-defined profiles

Abstract

A request for a route guide to a destination in a building is received from a user terminal device. BIM data for the building is received, including material properties of the building elements, the material properties consisting of ease of slipping when wet, earthquake resistance, and flame retardancy base values. Security information for a route, real-time information for building status, and a user profile are received. A route guide to the destination in the building is created, based the BIM data, security information, real-time building status, and the user profile. Information from one or more environmental sensors is received indicating that an environmental event has been detected. Its current position is received from the user terminal device. The route guide from the user terminal device'"'"'s current position is updated based on the environmental event, and the material properties of the building elements that are related to the environmental event.

Claims

1. A method for providing a route guide using building information modeling (BIM) data, the method comprising:

receiving, by a computer from a user terminal device, a request for a route guide to a destination in a building;

receiving, by the computer, BIM data for the building, including material properties of the elements that compose the building, wherein the material properties of the elements that compose the building are one or more material properties selected from a list consisting of;

ease of slipping when wet, earthquake resistance, and flame retardancy base values;

receiving, by the computer, security information for a route, real-time information for building status, and a user profile;

create, by the computer, a route guide to the destination in the building, based at least on the BIM data, security information, real-time information for building status, and the user profile;

receiving, by the computer from one or more environmental sensors, information indicating that an environmental event has been detected;

receiving, by the computer from the user terminal device, its current position; and

updating, by the computer, the route guide from the user terminal device'"'"'s current position based on the environmental event, and the material properties of the elements that compose the building that are related to the environmental event.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the one or more environmental sensors are one or more environmental sensors selected from the list consisting of:

a weather observation device, a temperature monitoring device, can earthquake detecting device, and a fire detecting device.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the environmental event is an environmental event selected from the list consisting of:

rain, fire, and an earthquake.

4. A computer program product for providing a route guide using building information modeling (BIM) data, the computer program product comprising:

one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media and program instructions embodied on the one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media, the program instructions, when executed by a computer, causing the computer to perform a method comprising;

receiving, by a computer from a user terminal device, a request for a route guide to a destination in a building;

receiving, by the computer, BIM data for the building, including material properties of the elements that compose the building, wherein the material properties of the elements that compose the building are one or more material properties selected from a list consisting of;

ease of slipping when wet, earthquake resistance, and flame retardancy base values;

receiving, by the computer, security information for a route, real-time information for building status, and a user profile;

create, by the computer, a route guide to the destination in the building, based at least on the BIM data, security information, real-time information for building status, and the user profile;

receiving, by the computer from one or more environmental sensors, information indicating that an environmental event has been detected;

receiving, by the computer from the user terminal device, its current position; and

updating, by the computer, the route guide from the user terminal device'"'"'s current position based on the environmental event, and the material properties of the elements that compose the building that are related to the environmental event.

5. A computer program product according to claim 4, wherein the one or more environmental sensors are one or more environmental sensors selected from the list consisting of:

a weather observation device, a temperature monitoring device, can earthquake detecting device, and a fire detecting device.

6. A computer program product according to claim 4, wherein the environmental event is an environmental event selected from the list consisting of:

rain, fire, and an earthquake.