

EXUS as Partner
Security Management Platform for enhanced situation awareness and real-time adaptive evacuation strategies for large venues for sports and entertainment
Focus on addressing the needs of the safety of large facility visitors during complex evacuation processes.
evaGuide project aims at developing a Security Management Platform for enhanced situation awareness and real-time adaptive evacuation strategies for large venues for sports and entertainment.
Live sporting events and concerts are exciting and usually draw massive crowds. So, when thousands of fans pack a stadium, staff needs to be prepared for an emergency evacuation. They need to plan for a safe and effective evacuation. In this context, evaGuide project develops a security management platform for enhanced situation awareness and real-time adaptive evacuation strategies. By focusing on the complex evacuation processes following normal and abnormal events (crises), the project creates an easily deployable system for timely identification of new threats. It also improves the response times by simulating complex scenarios, training of safety personnel and assessment of the performed actions and GHOST provide real-time adaptive evacuation strategies.
More specifically, evaGuide project developed a Security Management Platform for enhanced situation awareness and real-time adaptive evacuation strategies for large sports and entertainment venues. Its focus in on addressing the needs of the safety of large facility visitors during complex evacuation processes, following normal and abnormal events (crises) towards the creation of an easily deployable system being able to timely identify new threats, designate and sustain a Location based Dynamic Evacuation Route (LDER) that improves all corresponding response times under any circumstances. Moreover, evaGuide is designed in such a way to support the complete lifecycle of evacuation planning, simulating complex scenarios, training of safety personnel and assessment of the performed actions.
12/2018 - 11/2020
Project duration
2,392,125.00 €
Overall Budget
EIC-FTI-2018-2020
Topic
Impact
Sport and entertainment venues are highly susceptible to the volatility introduced by the human factor, the natural phenomena and in some cases from technical faults. evaGuide reduces the high costs of disasters since an effective crisis response leads to substantial monetary savings. By helping decision makers and the actual operatives take decisions based on better and more complete data, while effectively guiding people away from dangerous situations, EVAGUIDE helps limit the consequences of crises, ultimately saving human lives. It addresses the truly global market of safety and security with a specific focus on citizens. The major societal impact foreseen is the increase of perception of security among citizens, especially in times where the threat of a terrorist attack in large, crowded areas (including stadia) is considered as imminent, and the minimization of potential loss of lives or injuries during an evacuation due to timely and more efficient decisions taken with the help of evaGuide.
TELESTO TECHNOLOGIES PLIROFORIKIS KAI EPIKOINONION EPE (Greece)
Partners
EXUS (Greece)
CROWD DYNAMICS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (United Kingdom)
ESSMA SERVICES (Belgium)