Avoiding Hazardous Areas through the Dissemination of Location Data: A Novel Application of SSIDs
Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: When a natural disaster occurs, preventing secondary damage is critically important for protecting human life. Consequently, a major challenge lies in guiding people quickly and safely to secure locations. Because communication networks are likely to fail during disasters, guiding residents along safe evacuation routes becomes difficult while avoiding hazardous areas. Pre-established evacuation routes may even pass through dangerous zones once a disaster has struck. Therefore, generating evacuation routes that reflect real-time conditions of the affected area has become an urgent issue. In recent years, research on disaster mitigation using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has advanced rapidly. UAVs possess useful capabilities such as high-speed flight, wireless communication, and onboard cameras, and thus are expected to play an effective role in evacuation guidance within disaster-stricken areas. However, when communication infrastructure is destroyed, a key challenge is how to convey information about dangerous locations to evacuees. To address this problem, we propose a method that uses SSIDs (Service Set Identifiers) to transmit essential evacuation information to evacuees. Our approach relies solely on small commercial UAVs. By using only the standard SSID broadcast function, the system notifies evacuees of hazardous or impassable locations-such as collapsed bridges or fire zones-thereby enabling them to select safer evacuation routes. Evacuees can generate evacuation routes offline using the route-generation functionality of their smartphones.
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7204182633