EMERGENCY GUIDING SYSTEM AND SERVER

• US 20130103309A1
• Filed: 10/20/2011
• Published: 04/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: WANG, SHIH-CHENG, CAI, YI-WEN
• Application Number:
  US13/278,129
• Publication Number:
  US 20130103309A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/515
• CPC Class Codes: A62B 3/00 Devices or single parts for facilitating escape from buildings or the like, e.g. protection shields, protection screens; Portable devices for preventing smoke penetrating into distinct parts of buildings A62B1/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A62B 5/00 Other devices for rescuing from fire ladders E06C
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/206 specially adapted for indoor navigation
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 7/066 guiding along a path, e.g. evacuation path lighting strip
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/026 using orientation information, e.g. compass
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/33 for indoor environments, e.g. buildings
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

An emergency guiding system includes an emergency guiding server and a portable device. The emergency guiding server includes a guiding scheme determination unit producing a guiding scheme in response to an emergency, a route providing unit producing a recommended route to reach a particular target according to the last guiding scheme and a device location information in a location signal in response to the production of the guiding scheme, and a scene location data unit including sets of scene location information. The portable device includes a location identification unit producing the device location information, which transmits the location signal including the device location information to the emergency guiding server. The emergency guiding server transmits a guiding signal including the recommended route to the portable device when the device location information corresponds to one set of the scene location information. The disclosure further provides an emergency guiding server.

Claims

1. An emergency guiding system, comprising:

an emergency guiding server including a guiding scheme determination unit, a route providing unit, and a scene location data unit, wherein the guiding scheme determination unit produces a guiding scheme in response to the current status of an emergency in real time, the scene location data unit includes at least one set of scene location information; and

a portable device including a location identification unit and communicating with the emergency guiding server through a wireless network, wherein the location identification unit produces a device location information, the portable device transmits a location signal including the device location information to the emergency guiding server;

wherein the route providing unit of the emergency guiding server produces a recommended route to reach a particular target according to the last guiding scheme and the device location information in the location signal in response to the production of the guiding scheme when the device location information in the location signal corresponds to one set of the scene location information in the scene location data unit of the emergency guiding server, the emergency guiding server transmits a guiding signal including the recommended route to the portable device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the emergency guiding server determines the current status of the emergency by an alarm signal received from a hazard processing apparatus coupled to a plurality of sensors, the hazard processing apparatus transmits the alarm signal including status information of the actuated sensors to the emergency guiding server in response to detecting the current status of the emergency through the sensors.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the guiding scheme determination unit of the emergency guiding server includes a guiding scheme database including a plurality of predetermined guiding schemes corresponding to the sensors, the guiding scheme determination unit chooses one of the predetermined guiding schemes as the guiding scheme according to the status information of the actuated sensors in the alarm signal.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein each set of the scene location information include a first latitude, a first longitude, and a first elevation of individual scene, the device location information includes a second latitude, a second longitude, and a second elevation of the portable device.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable device further includes a display unit, the portable device provides a route chart according to the recommended route in the guiding signal through the display unit.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the route chart includes at least a portion of the recommended route adjacent to the portable device.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the route chart automatically rotates corresponding to the direction of the portable device.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the direction of the route chart is fixed to a particular direction corresponding to the scene of the emergency.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable device further includes a speaker unit, the portable device provides an audio guidance according to the recommended route in the guiding signal through the speaker unit.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the audio guidance is provided through a phone call.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable device further includes a direction identification unit determining a direction of the portable device.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the portable device provides a warning message when the direction not corresponds to the recommended route in the guiding signal.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable device further includes an actuating unit, the emergency guiding server transmits a triggering signal to the portable device in response to the emergency, the actuating unit automatically enables the location identification unit and directs the portable device to transmit the location signal to the emergency guiding server in response to the triggering signal.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the emergency guiding server transmits the guiding signal including at least a portion of the recommended route adjacent to the portable device to the portable device according to the device location information in the location signal, wherein the range of the recommended route transmitted to the portable device is capable of being adjusted according to a route range signal received from the portable device.

15. An emergency guiding server, comprising:

a guiding scheme determination unit producing a guiding scheme in response to the current status of an emergency in real time;

a scene location data unit including at least one set of scene location information; and

a route providing unit, wherein the route providing unit produces a recommended route to reach a particular target in response to the production of the guiding scheme, the recommended route is produced according to the last guiding scheme and a device location information in a location signal received from a portable device when the device location information in the location signal corresponds to one set of the scene location information in the scene location data unit of the emergency guiding server, and the emergency guiding server transmits a guiding signal including the recommended route to the portable device.

16. The server of claim 15, wherein the emergency guiding server determines the current status of the emergency by an alarm signal received from a hazard processing apparatus coupled to a plurality of sensors, the hazard processing apparatus transmits the alarm signal including status information of the actuated sensors to the emergency guiding server in response to detecting the current status of the emergency through the sensors.

17. The server of claim 16, wherein the guiding scheme determination unit includes a guiding scheme database including a plurality of predetermined guiding schemes corresponding to the sensors, the guiding scheme determination unit chooses one of the predetermined guiding schemes as the guiding scheme according to the status information of the actuated sensors in the alarm signal.

18. The server of claim 15, wherein each set of the scene location information include a first latitude, a first longitude, and a first elevation of individual scene, the device location information includes a second latitude, a second longitude, and a second elevation of the portable device.

19. The server of claim 15, wherein the emergency guiding server transmits a triggering signal to the portable device to enable an actuating unit of the portable device to enable the communication between the portable device and the emergency guiding server, and direct the portable device to transmit the location signal to the emergency guiding server.

20. The server of claim 15, wherein the emergency guiding server transmits the guiding signal including at least a portion of the recommended route adjacent to the portable device to the portable device according to the device location information in the location signal, wherein the range of the recommended route transmitted to the portable device is capable of being adjusted according to a route range signal received from the portable device.