An architecture for an integrated fire emergency response system for the built environment

Fire Safety Science

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 427-438

  Upadhyay, Rochan ^a   Pringle, Gavin ^a   Beckett, George ^a   Potter, Stephen ^a   Han, Liangxiu ^a   Welch, Stephen ^a   Usmani, Asif ^a   Torero, Jose ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Demonstration experiment; Emergency response system; Firegrid; System architecture; Technology integration

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEMS; FIRE EMERGENCIES; FIRE MODELS; FIREGRID; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONS; MODERN TECHNOLOGIES; RESEARCH PROBLEMS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION;

ARCHITECTURE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTS; INTEGRATION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

FIRES;

EID: 77952683985     PISSN: 18174299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3801/IAFSS.FSS.9-427     Document Type: Conference Paper

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