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US 2010/0148953 A1Published application
Disaster vulnerability assessment in buildings
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorBALAJI VENKATRAMAN
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Abstract
The number and identities of people in a building along with personal data that is useful in disaster response planning are determined from a database receiving information from the building's security access card readers and from user information extracted from wireless network access points. This information is used in the event of a disaster alarm to quickly compute vulnerability indicia for each of several locations in a building and each of several buildings in a group.
Claims20
Method comprising:
- receiving indication of a disaster in at least one building;
- in response to the indication, accessing personnel information of people in the building, information related to people in the building being indicated by at least one of:
- at least one security card reader associated with the building, at least one user identity associated with a user computer communicating with at least one wireless network access point in the building, at least one video camera;
- and
- based at least in part on the personnel information, generating at least one disaster vulnerability index.
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System, comprising:
- wireless network access points;
- building access device records;
- disaster sensors;
- and
- at least one processor using information from the access points, access device records, and sensors to provide disaster vulnerability assessments.
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Apparatus, comprising:
- at least one computer processor;
- and
- at least one computer readable medium accessible to the processor for:
- developing disaster vulnerability assessments with various categories of vulnerability zones based at least in part on real time sensing of people within zones affected by a disaster.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.