Outside Dynamic Evacuation Routes to Escape a Wildfire: A Prototype App for Forest Firefighters

This paper describes a prototype application to use different algorithms for creating optimal evacuation routes in the presence of a wildfire with a dynamic event-based update. The application uses a meteorological API that obtains real-time temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, speed, and wi...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Sustainability 2021-07, Vol.13 (13), p.7295
Main Authors: Castro-Basurto, Kerly, Jijon-Veliz, Freddy, Medina, Washington, Velasquez, Washington
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Design
Evacuation
Evacuation routing
Evacuations & rescues
Firefighters
Forest & brush fires
Geographical coordinates
Humidity
Mathematical models
Safety margins
Satellite communications
Sensors
Simulation
Sustainability
Wildfires
Wind direction
Wireless networks
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:This paper describes a prototype application to use different algorithms for creating optimal evacuation routes in the presence of a wildfire with a dynamic event-based update. The application uses a meteorological API that obtains real-time temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, speed, and wind direction of each location within an area using geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) for creating a sensor network. The data are stored in a database for monitoring and visualization using the open-source platform Grafana, which includes an early warning mechanism that sends messages when it detects a temperature outside the normal range. Three different simulation scenarios were evaluated, varying the fire’s starting point coordinates and the evacuation route. The results show that the algorithm reacts to the presence of fire, maximizing safety margins even on longer evacuation routes. The prototype can be used to create an application to fight forest fires and safeguard rescue agents’ lives.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su13137295