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Anticipatory Emergency Elevator Evacuation Systems
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Abstract
This paper proposes a new type of emergency elevator evacuation systems, named anticipatory emergency elevator evacuation systems, which can detect and predict hazards in the emergency evacuation, and then dispatch the elevator cars anticipatorily, aiming to avoid hazards beforehand, thus to rescue more occupants and to shorten the evacuation time. This paper presents the proposed system’s design, its prototype and evaluation. The novelty of the presented work is that it shows a new direction for developing emergency elevator evacuation systems.
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anticipatory computing context-aware computing anticipatory reasoning-reacting systemPreview
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