A Participatory Agent-Based Simulation for Indoor Evacuation Supported by Google Glass

Abstract

Indoor evacuation systems are needed for rescue and safety management. One of the challenges is to provide users with personalized evacuation routes in real time. To this end, this project aims at exploring the possibilities of Google Glass technology for participatory multiagent indoor evacuation simulations. Participatory multiagent simulation combines scenario-guided agents and humans equipped with Google Glass that coexist in a shared virtual space and jointly perform simulations. The paper proposes an architecture for participatory multiagent simulation in order to combine devices (Google Glass and/or smartphones) with an agent-based social simulator and indoor tracking services.

Keywords

• ambient intelligence
• agent-based social simulation
• participatory simulation
• emergency plan
• routing
• indoor mapping
• Representational state transfer (REST)