Sometimes large organizations choose to pay little attention to potential hazards, hoping that incidents will pass them by. Mainly concerned with preserving the property, businessmen spend huge money on insurance. But they often forget that it is much more important to protect human life and rarely perform extensive emergency training among their employees. However, such irresponsible behavior may lead to a frightful tragedy if a large, untrained, panicking crowd will attempt to flee a burning building or pass through the halls filled with chemical fumes.
Emergency training is very difficult to accomplish. Although, luckily, fires or gas-alerts do not happen on a regular basis, in case of occurrence in such large, crowded places they may lead to a great number of casualties, especially if there are many visitors inside. On the other hand, real life training of the staff can be extremely costly and inconvenient; in some cases even impossible (with reference to hotels, subway stations and other buildings that obviously can not be closed for training).
Facing the challenges of developing a tutorial that could replace real-life experience, Program Ace (game development and outsourcing
programace.com, software & web development
www.program-ace.com) has started to develop a series of Emergency Simulators that could replace real-life experience and greatly decrease the number of potential victims and losses. The first product in this series is Evacuation Simulator which recreates the emergency situation in the building with the goal for participant to leave the building.
Evacuation in multistorey organizations such as airports, factories, office buildings and hotels is extremely difficult. Due to the large quantity of people and the amount of halls, stairs, pathways and rooms it may be too complicated even for the organization employee to leave the building. The Evacuation Simulator was designed precisely to enhance survival potential in large constructions. The Simulator recreates an accurate 3D model of your building with three dimensional animated characters that can logically and realistically act in this environment. The player's principal goal is to lead this character out of the burning building as quickly and safely as possible. As the Simulator supports multiplayer mode and participant's perception of the surroundings in the simulation is a first person's view, the standard fire drill training process could be avoided. And one Fire Evacuation Simulator practice would be sufficient to pass over essential evacuation skills.
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