Event-Based Parallel Simulation with a Sensing System for Occupant Distribution Estimation in the Whole Building Scale

摘要

The information of occupant distribution in the whole building scale is important for the evacuation in emergency and the energy conservation of HVAC systems. This information is usually estimated by a sensor network system. However, the evaluation of the performance of the sensor network system is usually hard to be achieved beforehand. Furthermore, the optimization of the sensing system design is much more difficult. For this reason, a simulation platform is of great practical interest for the purpose of the sensing system design and optimization. To this end, we proposed an event based simulation platform which different human movement models, sensor models and estimation algorithms could be input into. For the purpose of simulation efficiency, parallel simulation is applied in our platform. A serious of experiments show the high efficiency and generality of our simulation platform.