Emergency evacuation service

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9681280-B2
Application number	US-201314353627-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 6, 2013
Priority date	Dec 16, 2013
Publication date	Jun 13, 2017
Grant date	Jun 13, 2017

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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory 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 receive 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 and traffic congestion at an exit of the venue.

2. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the user device comprises a mobile device, a smart phone, or a personal digital assistant.

3. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , 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.

4. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to detect the existence of the emergency event comprise instructions to receive a message from the emergency evacuation system.

5. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to detect the existence of the emergency event comprise instructions to receive a message from a fire alarm service.

6. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the emergency evacuation system is a cloud server system.

7. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , comprising instructions to:
receive an update to he evacuation instructions;
process the update to the evacuation instructions; and
display the updated information.

8. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the information related to the evacuation instructions comprises at least one of a map and a route.

9. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , 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.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 9 , comprising instructions to transmit identification information to the emergency evacuation system, the identification information uniquely identifying the user device.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 9 , comprising instructions to transmit location information to the emergency evacuation system, the location information specifying the location of the user device.

12. An apparatus to provide an emergency evacuation service, the apparatus comprising:
an emergency event detection module to detect the existence of an emergency event 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 and traffic congestion at an exit of the venue.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the apparatus comprises a mobile device, a smart phone, or a personal digital assistant.

14. The apparatus of claim 12 , 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.

15. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the emergency event detection module is to detect the existence of the emergency event by receiving a message from the emergency evacuation system.

16. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the emergency event detection module is to detect the existence of the emergency event by receiving a message from a fire alarm service.

17. The apparatus of claim 12 , 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.

18. The apparatus of claim 12 , 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.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 , wherein the transceiver is to transmit identification information to the emergency evacuation system, the identification information uniquely identifying the apparatus.

20. 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 and traffic congestion at an exit of the venue.

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Balthasar Eddie
• Owen Craig
• Stanasolovich David
• Spence Catherine W

Classifications

• H04W4/021

  Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences · CPC title

• G08B7/066

  guiding along a path, e.g. evacuation path lighting strip · CPC title

• H04W4/90 Primary

  Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS] · CPC title

• H04W8/24

  Transfer of terminal data · CPC title

• H04W4/33

  for indoor environments, e.g. buildings · CPC title