TY - JOUR
T1 - IoT in Action
T2 - Design and Implementation of a Building Evacuation Service
AU - Gokceli, Selahattin
AU - Zhmurov, Nikolay
AU - Kurt, Gunes Karabulut
AU - Ors, Berna
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Selahattin Gokceli et al.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - With the development of sensor technologies, various application areas have emerged. The usage of these technologies and exploitation of recent improvements have clear benefits on building applications. Such use-cases can improve smart functions of buildings and can increase the end-user comfort. As a similar notion, building automation systems (BAS) are smart systems that target to provide automated management of various control services and to improve resource usage efficiency. However, buildings generally contain hardware and control services from a diverse set of characteristics. The automated and central management of such functions can be challenging. In order to overcome such issues, an Emergency Evacuation Service is proposed for BAS, where requirements of such central management model are analyzed and model content and subservice definitions are prepared. A crucial scenario, which could be a necessity for future BAS, is defined and an approach for evacuation of people in the buildings at emergency situations is proposed. For real-life scenarios, the Evacuation Service is implemented by using a low-cost design, which is appropriate for Internet of Things (IoT) based BAS applications. As demonstrated, the proposed service model can provide effective performance in real-life deployments.
AB - With the development of sensor technologies, various application areas have emerged. The usage of these technologies and exploitation of recent improvements have clear benefits on building applications. Such use-cases can improve smart functions of buildings and can increase the end-user comfort. As a similar notion, building automation systems (BAS) are smart systems that target to provide automated management of various control services and to improve resource usage efficiency. However, buildings generally contain hardware and control services from a diverse set of characteristics. The automated and central management of such functions can be challenging. In order to overcome such issues, an Emergency Evacuation Service is proposed for BAS, where requirements of such central management model are analyzed and model content and subservice definitions are prepared. A crucial scenario, which could be a necessity for future BAS, is defined and an approach for evacuation of people in the buildings at emergency situations is proposed. For real-life scenarios, the Evacuation Service is implemented by using a low-cost design, which is appropriate for Internet of Things (IoT) based BAS applications. As demonstrated, the proposed service model can provide effective performance in real-life deployments.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85012154166&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1155/2017/8595404
DO - 10.1155/2017/8595404
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85012154166
SN - 2090-7141
VL - 2017
JO - Journal of Computer Networks and Communications
JF - Journal of Computer Networks and Communications
M1 - 8595404
ER -