EMERGENCY EVACUATION SERVICE

• US 20160269882A1
• Filed: 12/06/2013
• Published: 09/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Balthasar, Eddie, Owen, Craig, Stanasolovich, David, Spence, Catherine W.
• Granted Patent: US 9,681,280 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 7/066 guiding along a path, e.g. evacuation path lighting strip
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• 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]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/24 Transfer of terminal data

Abstract

Various systems and methods for providing an emergency evacuation service are described herein. An apparatus to provide an emergency evacuation service comprises an emergency event detection module to detect the existence of an emergency event at a venue; a transceiver to request and receive evacuation instructions from an emergency evacuation system, in response to detecting the existence of the emergency event; and a controller to process the evacuation instructions and display, to a user of the apparatus, information related to the evacuation instructions.

Claims

1-28. -28. (canceled)

29. A machine-readable medium including instructions for providing an emergency evacuation service, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:

detect, at a user device, the existence of an emergency event at a venue;

request and receiving evacuation instructions from an emergency evacuation system at the user device, in response to detecting the existence of the emergency event;

process the evacuation instructions with the user device; and

display to a user of the user device, information related to the evacuation instructions.

30. The machine-readable medium of claim 29, wherein the user device comprises a mobile device, a smart phone, or a personal digital assistant.

31. The machine-readable medium of claim 29, wherein the instructions to detect the existence of the emergency event comprise instructions to use a sensor value from a sensor installed in the user device.

32. The machine-readable medium of claim 29, wherein the instructions to detect the existence of the emergency event comprise instructions to receive a message from the emergency evacuation system.

33. The machine-readable medium of claim 29, wherein the instructions to detect the existence of the emergency event comprise instructions to receive a message from a fire alarm service.

34. The machine-readable medium of claim 29, wherein the emergency evacuation system is a cloud server system.

35. The machine-readable medium of claim 29, comprising instructions to:

receive an update to the evacuation instructions;

process the update to the evacuation instructions; and

display the updated information.

36. The machine-readable medium of claim 29, wherein the information related to the evacuation instructions comprises at least one of a map and a route.

37. The machine-readable medium of claim 29, comprising instructions to transmit a registration from the user device to the emergency evacuation system, the registration confirming that the user device is located at the venue and indicating that the user device should receive emergency alerts from the emergency evacuation system.

38. The machine-readable medium of claim 37, comprising instructions to transmit identification information to the emergency evacuation system, the identification information uniquely identifying the user device.

39. The machine-readable medium of claim 37, comprising instructions to transmit location information to the emergency evacuation system, the location information specifying the location of the user device.

40. An apparatus to provide an emergency evacuation service, the apparatus comprising:

an emergency event detection module to detect the existence of an emergency event at a venue;

a transceiver to request and receive evacuation instructions from an emergency evacuation system, in response to detecting the existence of the emergency event; and

a controller to process the evacuation instructions and display, to a user of the apparatus, information related to the evacuation instructions.

41. The apparatus of claim 40, wherein the apparatus comprises a mobile device, a smart phone, or a personal digital assistant.

42. The apparatus of claim 40, wherein the emergency event detection module is to detect the existence of the emergency event by a sensor value from a sensor installed in the apparatus.

43. The apparatus of claim 40, wherein the emergency event detection module is to detect the existence of the emergency event by receiving a message from the emergency evacuation system.

44. The apparatus of claim 40, wherein the emergency event detection module is to detect the existence of the emergency event by receiving a message from a fire alarm service.

45. The apparatus of claim 40, wherein the transceiver is to receive an update to the evacuation instructions, and wherein the controller is to process the update to the evacuation instructions and display updated information.

46. The apparatus of claim 40, wherein the transceiver is to transmit a registration from the apparatus to the emergency evacuation system, the registration confirming that the apparatus is located at the venue and indicating that the apparatus should receive emergency alerts from the emergency evacuation system.

47. The apparatus of claim 46, wherein the transceiver is to transmit identification information to the emergency evacuation system, the identification information uniquely identifying the apparatus.

48. A method for providing an emergency evacuation service, the method comprising:

detecting, at a user device, the existence of an emergency event at a venue;

requesting and receiving evacuation instructions from an emergency evacuation system at the user device, in response to detecting the existence of the emergency event;

processing the evacuation instructions with the user device; and

displaying to a user of the user device, information related to the evacuation instructions.