FIREGUIDE: Firefighter guide and tracker

Author

Gandhi, Siddhesh Rajan ; Ganz, Aura ; Mullett, G.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

Aug. 31 2010-Sept. 4 2010

Firstpage

2037

Lastpage

2040

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce an indoor location tracking and navigation system (FIREGUIDE) using Bluetooth and RFID technology. FIREGUIDE assists the firefighters to find the nearest exit location and presents the Incident Commander the current firefighter´s location superimposed on a map of the building floor. We envision that the FIREGUIDE system will save significant number of fire fighters and victims´ lives.

Keywords

Bluetooth; biomedical engineering; emergency services; fires; navigation; radiofrequency identification; tracking; Bluetooth; FIREGUIDE; RFID technology; building floor map; firefighter guide and tracker; incident commander; indoor location tracking and navigation system; nearest exit location; Bluetooth; Fires; Floors; Radiofrequency identification; Servers; Spatial databases; Bluetooth; Indoor localization and tracking; RFID; Spatial Databases; Algorithms; Civil Defense; Computer Communication Networks; Computers, Handheld; Disaster Planning; Emergency Medical Services; Equipment Design; Fires; Humans; Safety Management; Software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Buenos Aires

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4123-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626771

Filename

5626771