Region based Scheduling Algorithm for Pedestrian Monitoring at Large Area Buildings during Evacuation

As technology is improving day by day, it is essential to protect pedestrians who have gathered in large numbers during the disasters in places such as shopping malls, theatres, hospitals and schools. Such a way, some precautions for efficient evacuation had to be taken. Few research has been done on pedestrian evacuation such as the optimization-based feedback control method by controlling pedestrian evacuation through instruction. But because there were chances that many pedestrians might not be aware of the disaster, it couldn't make it out. It is not possible to protect pedestrians through the instructions alone. In this paper, the technique is used without their involvement to protect those pedestrians. Here, the proposed region-based scheduling algorithm was aimed at monitoring the pedestrian based on the planning of building areas. Multiple moving sensors are generally deployed to monitor pedestrian actions where the whole area is divided into different regions. Using NS-2 simulator, it is found from the simulated results that region-based algorithm with multiple moving sensors improves the performance of actions and pedestrian status during threats in large-scale buildings.