A design of dynamic notification system in evacuation planning

Evacuation process in high rise building should be well planned to ensure the safety and security of the occupant. Almost half of the total evacuation time is the process of preparing the evacuation, known as pre-evacaution phase, such as verifying the perceive of the danger, confirming the real signal of the evacuation, and determining the evacuation routes. In order to improve the performance of pre-evacuation phase, it is necessary to increase the effectiveness of the notification process to the occupant of building. This research proposes a design of notification system for high rise building using short message system (SMS) gateway technology. A short messages will be delivered directly to the occupants of the building containing the status and the actual level of danger. And if an real evacuation process happened, this notification system will provide the feasible routes information as a guidance for the occupants based on their point of origin inside the building. The feasible route determination on this notification system applying the harmony search algorithm.