On the Design of a User-in-the-Loop Channel. With Application to Emergency Egress

TL;DR

This paper proposes a user-in-the-loop communication framework tailored for emergency evacuation scenarios, emphasizing safety and timely response by integrating users into the communication system design.

Contribution

It introduces a novel framework that incorporates users into communication channels, addressing safety during emergencies, and assesses hardware setups for UIL communication systems.

Findings

Enhanced safety during emergency evacuations

Effective hardware configurations for UIL communication

Framework applicable to critical communication scenarios

Abstract

The herein approach addresses the case when the user is part of the communication channel. A purpose of the abstraction is to provide a framework for the field of communications, with the user included in the system, reckoning the current 7 Layer model allows safeguards for data only. Solid grounds for application were identified as contribution to ensuring the need for safety which becomes tight during emergency events where timely evacuation is critical. One of the components of a communication system [1] as described in information theory, is the communication channel. It allows the transmitter signal representing the message, to reach the receiver. A hardware setup with two different communication systems in a user-in-the-loop (UIL) [2] configuration is described and assessed pertinent to the specific application.