Emergency Rescue Localization (ERL) using GPS, Wireless LAN and Camera

Abstract

Congestion avoidance in emergency situations is among one of many overlooked localization issues. During emergency situations (such as fires), sometimes the rescuers find it hard to find the best exit route from the inside to the outside of a building. Any time delay in decision making will risk the loss of lives. Therefore, an efficient Emergency Rescue Localization (ERL) system is needed to help rescuers find the best route from the inside to the outside of a building. Thus, we propose a new ERL that is based on the integration of a Global Positioning System (GPS), Wireless LAN and camera. In this proposed ERL, the integrated Wireless LAN (WLAN) and Camera are used to retrieve location information inside a building. Then, localization methods will be adapted to GPS-based localization when subjects are in open areas outside the building. Finally, we present our experimental results to illustrate the performance of the localization system for indoor and outdoor environment set-up.

Multi-Level Indoor Navigation Ontology for High Assurance Location-Based Services

“…under all circumstances with high reliability. Emergency Rescue Localization (ERL) systems use Wireless LAN (WLAN) and cameras to find the location information inside a building [3]. However, these systems require building power, which may not be available during emergencies.…”

Design and Implementation of the RSIL to LLVM IR Translator for Verification of the Intermediate Code on IoT Virtual Machine

“…The inertial sensor can be used to determine user location everywhere and ubiquitous without using extra building infrastructure and it equipped in many smart phone nowadays [14][15][16][17][18][19]. Some examples of inertial-based mobile IPS include mobile asset navigation, mobile first-responder navigation and mobile emergency rescue and tracking [20][21][22][23].One of the major issue of inertial-based mobile IPS, is sample impoverishment during particle filtering. This phenomenon will cause computation burden to the overall systems [24].…”

Adaptive Special Strategies Resampling for Inertial-based Mobile Indoor Positioning Systems: An Initial Proposal

“…With the rapid advancement in location technologies and tracking devices, and the demand for flawless solutions to overcome the problems associated with current mobile location based techniques, there is widespread interest in mobile IPS systems (IPS) [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. One of the major components of mobile IPS is inertial-based positioning, which facilitates the tracing of individuals (or mobile nodes) within corridors or other enclosed structures by using inertial sensor.…”