Integrating building information to support decision-making has been a key challenge in the
Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. The synergy of Building …

Emergency services worldwide face increasing cost pressure that potentially limits their
existing resources. In many countries, emergency services also face the issues of staff …

Multiple construction worker tracking is an active research area critical to the planning of the
job site. Challenges in multiple construction worker tracking include miss detection and …

Localization is critical to but also challenging for an efficient first response during indoor
emergency situations. This paper describes an economical indoor localization system with a …

In countries such as Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, projects in which
volunteers are dispatched to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients with the use of …

During building emergencies, an effective and visible primary search plan enhances
situation awareness and enables a more efficient rescue mission. The aim of the primary …

In emergency response volunteer programs, volunteers in the vicinity of an emergency are
alerted via their mobile phones to the scene of the event to perform a specific task. Tasks are …

The effective deployment of medical emergency equipment, such as automated external
defibrillator (AED), is essential to myocardial infarction (MI) patients. However, there are …

Indoor space, where humans spend 80% of their lives, is subject to frequent out-of-hospital
cardiac arrest (OHCA). Optimizing the spatial deployment of automated external …

This research estimated the spatial-temporal distribution of humans in buildings through
image sensing. Inputs were the in-building network, image sequences recording the …