IP Library Granted Patent US 12,205,447
Granted Patent B2
US 12,205,447 · App. 18/355,088 · Granted Jan 21, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) building emergency guidance and advisement system

Inventor: Russell G. Derickson (Broomfield, CO)
Assignee: Tabor Mountain LLC
G08B17/00G08B25/10
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Patent No.
US 12,205,447
App. No.
18/355,088
Granted
Jan 21, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The disclosed system can determine egress guidance during a building emergency using artificial intelligence (AI). The system can include sensors positioned throughout the building to detect building conditions and a computing system to determine egress guidance in the building. The computing system can perform operations including: receiving, from the sensors, information indicating the building conditions, detecting, based on processing the conditions, an emergency in the building, determining, based on applying AI techniques to the information, scenarios indicating potential spreads of the emergency, generating, based on the determined scenarios, egress guidance to assist users in safely egressing from the building. The egress guidance can include at least one egress strategy instructing the users to move along a pathway that avoids the emergency and the potential spreads of the emergency. The egress guidance can be returned for presentation to the users in the building to assist in safely avoiding the emergency.

Claims (39)

1. A system for determining egress guidance during an emergency in a building using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, the system comprising:

a plurality of sensors positioned throughout the building and configured to detect conditions in the building; and

a computing system configured to determine egress guidance in the building using AI techniques, wherein the computing system performs operations comprising:

receiving, from the plurality of sensors, information indicating the conditions in the building;

detecting, based on processing the conditions in the received information, an emergency in the building;

determining, based on applying AI techniques to the received information, scenarios indicating a plurality of potential spreads of the emergency in the building;

generating, based on the determined scenarios in the building, egress guidance to assist users in safely egressing from the building, wherein the egress guidance includes at least one egress strategy instructing the users to move along a pathway in the building that avoids (i) the emergency and (ii) the plurality of potential spreads of the emergency in the building; and

returning the egress guidance for presentation to the users in the building to assist the users to safely avoid the emergency.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein returning the egress guidance comprises transmitting instructions to a user device of a user amongst the users in the building that cause the user device to output the egress guidance at the user device.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein generating the egress guidance comprises: generating instructions for a user amongst the users to lead the users in safely egressing according to the at least one egress strategy.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein generating the egress guidance comprises: generating and returning instructions for a user amongst the users that directs the user (i) to a location of the users and (ii) to lead the users from the location to safety according to the at least one egress strategy.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein:

the users comprise at least one child, and

returning the egress guidance comprises transmitting the egress guidance to a user device associated with the at least one child.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein returning the egress guidance comprises transmitting instructions to an output device located within the building proximate a location of the users, wherein the instructions cause the output device to output the egress guidance to the users.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein returning the egress guidance further comprises:

determining, based on the received information, the location of the users in the building;

identifying the output device that is located within the building proximate the determined location of the users; and

transmitting the instructions to the identified output device.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the computing system comprises a user device of at least one user amongst the users in the building.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the computing system is remote from the building.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the computing system is located within the building.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

generating, based on the determined scenarios in the building, a plurality of egress strategies, wherein the plurality of egress strategies includes the egress guidance; and

selecting an egress strategy from amongst the plurality of egress strategies based at least in part on continuously received information from the plurality of sensors, the continuously received information indicating real-time conditions in the building as the emergency progresses.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein generating the egress guidance further comprises generating signaling instructions that are specific to the egress guidance.

13. The system of claim 1 , wherein returning the egress guidance comprises returning instructions that cause a receiving device to visually or audibly output the egress guidance, wherein the receiving device comprises at least one of a user device of at least one user amongst the users, the computing system, and an output device in a location proximate the users in the building.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein audibly outputting the egress guidance comprises describing a pathway to exit the building that corresponds to the egress guidance.

15. The system of claim 13 , wherein visually outputting the egress guidance comprises instructing LED lights to illuminate a pathway to exit the building corresponding to the egress guidance.

16. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of sensors include motion sensors.

17. The system of claim 1 , wherein the building is a school.

18. The system of claim 1 , wherein the building is a residential building.

19. The system of claim 1 , wherein the building is at least one of an office building and a retail building.

20. A method for determining egress guidance during an emergency in a building using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, the method comprising

receiving, by a computing system and from a plurality of sensors positioned throughout the building and configured to detect conditions in the building, information indicating the conditions in the building;

detecting, by the computing system and based on processing the conditions in the received information, an emergency in the building;

determining, by the computing system and based on applying AI techniques to the received information, scenarios indicating a plurality of potential spreads of the emergency in the building;

generating, by the computing system and based on the determined scenarios in the building, egress guidance to assist users in safely egressing from the building, wherein the egress guidance includes at least one egress strategy instructing the users to move along a pathway in the building that avoids (i) the emergency and (ii) the plurality of potential spreads of the emergency in the building; and

returning, by the computing system, the egress guidance for presentation to the users in the building to assist the users to safely avoid the emergency.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 7, 2023
From: DERICKSON, RUSSELL G.
To: LGHORIZON, LLC
Reel/Frame 064511/0651 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 7, 2023
From: LGHORIZON, LLC
To: TABOR MOUNTAIN LLC
Reel/Frame 064511/0693 →
Continuity (4)
Continuation 17986302 · Nov 14, 2022
Continuation 17320751 · May 14, 2021
Continuation 16903331 · Jun 16, 2020
Related Publication 20230360506A1 · Nov 9, 2023
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