Patent ID: 11914854
Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. An apparatus, comprising:
a processor configured to:
receive cause and effect rules for an emergency event within a building;

a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to:
receive a user input to simulate an event in one of a plurality of zones of an area of the building;

simulate the cause and effect rules in response to the user input;
identify a respective distance factor from each of the plurality of zones to an emergency exit via a respective evacuation route, wherein the respective distance factor represents a number of zones between a particular zone and the emergency exit; and
display alarm notifications in real-time to correspond with an output of the cause and effect rules, wherein the alarm notifications are generated based on a respective alert sequence factor for each of the plurality of zones.