Electronic Guides, Incident Response Methods, Incident Response Systems, and Incident Monitoring Methods

An incident monitoring method comprising:

• receiving a notification that an incident has occurred;
• in response to the receiving of the notification, requesting status information from a plurality of electronic guides configured to establish at least one guided path configured to direct a person positioned near the incident away from the incident;
• receiving the status information from at least some of the electronic guides of the plurality;
• and
• providing the status information.

An incident response system comprising:

• a plurality of electronic guides positioned within pathways of a building in different locations relative to one another, each electronic guide of the plurality comprising at least one green visual indicator configured to be selectively enabled;
• and
• management circuitry configured to:
• receive notification that an incident has occurred within the building;
• determine a source of the notification, the source being positioned in a location near the incident;
• and
• establish a directional path through the pathways leading away from the location toward an exit of the building by enabling the green visual indicators of the electronic guides of the plurality that are positioned along the directional path, individual of the green visual indicators being visible to a person traversing the directional path.

An electronic guide comprising:

• one or more indicators;
• and
• processing circuitry configured to:
• receive a request to configure the one or more indicators from an inactive state to an active state in which the one or more indicators encourage a first person positioned near a first side of the electronic guide to move toward the electronic guide and encourage a second person positioned near a second side of the electronic guide to move away from the electronic guide;
• and
• configure the one or more indicators according to the request.

An incident response system comprising:

• a plurality of electronic guides positioned within pathways of a building in different locations relative to one another, each electronic guide of the plurality comprising at least one visual arrow configured to be selectively enabled;
• and
• management circuitry configured to:
• receive notification that an incident has occurred within the building;
• determine a source of the notification, the source being positioned in a location near the incident;
• and
• establish a directional path through the pathways leading away from the location toward an exit of the building by enabling the visual arrows of the electronic guides of the plurality that are positioned along the directional path, individual of the visual arrows being visible to a person traversing the directional path.

An incident response system comprising:

• a plurality of electronic guides positioned within pathways of a building in different locations relative to one another, each electronic guide of the plurality comprising at least one audible indicator configured to be selectively enabled;
• and
• management circuitry configured to:
• receive notification that an incident has occurred within the building;
• determine a source of the notification, the source being positioned in a location near the incident;
• and
• establish a directional path through the pathways leading away from the location toward an exit of the building by selectively enabling the audible indicators of the electronic guides of the plurality that are positioned along the directional path, individual of the audible indicators being perceptible to a person traversing the directional path.