SBEO: Smart Building Evacuation Ontology

Semantically rich depiction of the concepts for context-aware indoor routing
 brings appealing benefits for the safety of occupants of smart spaces in
 emergency evacuation. In this paper, we propose Smart Building Evacuation
 Ontology (SBEO3), a reusable ontology for indoor spaces, based on three
 different data models: user, building, and context. We provide a common
 representation of indoor routing and navigation, describe users?
 characteristics and preferences, grouping of individuals and their role in
 a specific context, hazards, and emergency evacuation. Among other
 characteristics, we consider abilities of individuals, safety and
 accessibility of spaces related to each person, intensity, impact, and
 severity of an emergency event or activity. SBEO is flexible and compatible
 with other ontologies of its domain, including SEAS, SSN/SOSA, SEMA4A, and
 empathi. We evaluate SBEO based on several metrics demonstrating that it
 addresses the information needs for the context-aware route recommendation
 system for emergency evacuation in indoor spaces. In the end, a
 simulation-based application example exploits SBEO using Context-Aware
 Emergency Evacuation Software (CAREE).