Building security, occupant safety, and emergency response
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1. A system for developing an emergency plan for a building, said system executing the steps of:
- collecting data that defines architectural features of a building that has walls;
developing a floor-by-floor digital image of the building, said floor-by-floor digital image being based on said collected data;
organizing the digital image of at least one floor of the building into one or more coded zones, said coded zones being broken into segments that are defined by walls of the building;
associating the segments of each coded zone with alpha/numeric characters that are unique to said coded zone; and
maintaining said floor-by-floor digital image at a location that is outside of said building and that is also available to emergency responders.
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Abstract
An improved system and method for building security and occupant safety wherein a digital image of plan view of a selected floor of a building is prepared from a physical drawing. The digital image shows the substantial architectural features of the building, including external walls (10) and internal walls (12). In the digital image, the building floor is divided into several zones (14) and each of the zones is broken into segments (16). Each of the segments (16) is identified by alpha/numeric characters or other symbols by which emergency responders or other building occupants can navigate the building.
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1. A system for developing an emergency plan for a building, said system executing the steps of:
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collecting data that defines architectural features of a building that has walls; developing a floor-by-floor digital image of the building, said floor-by-floor digital image being based on said collected data; organizing the digital image of at least one floor of the building into one or more coded zones, said coded zones being broken into segments that are defined by walls of the building; associating the segments of each coded zone with alpha/numeric characters that are unique to said coded zone; and maintaining said floor-by-floor digital image at a location that is outside of said building and that is also available to emergency responders. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method for developing an emergency plan for a building, said method comprising the steps of:
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collecting data that defines architectural features of a building that has walls; developing a floor-by-floor digital image of the building, said floor-by-floor digital image being based on said collected data; organizing the digital image of at least one floor of the building into one or more coded zones, said coded zones being broken into segments that are defined by walls of the building; associating the segments of each coded zone of said building with symbols or combinations of symbols that are unique to that segment; and maintaining said floor-by-floor digital image at a location that is available to emergency responders. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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