E-PreS: Evaluation of Building Evacuation Drills: A Smart Tool to Help Building Evacuation Drill Designers to Find the Optimal Evacuation Pattern

E-PreS is an EU funded program, which lasted from February, 2015 through December, 2016. It's goal is to provide the building drill evacuation designer with a useful tool, to evaluate specific evacuation scenarios and monitor them in real-time, increase community awareness against natural hazards and build up evacuation confidence while minimizing side effects. It's main target group is the school communities, primarily focusing on earthquake, flood or volcanic eruption drills, but it turned out to be a useful tool for generic use in all types of building evacuation drills. It is compact, user friendly, doesn't require internet connection and it can even function autonomously, without even the need for external electric power presence.