Abstract
This paper presents a system to assist blind and low-vision people to walk around independently and safely in a university environment. Navigation is accomplished by providing speech guidance on their current location and navigation information on how to move to a particular location. The system utilizes RFID tags for localization to mark points of interest. A wireless sensor network (WSN) acts as the data transportation backbone. The system consists of a Windows and web-based graphical user interface (GUI) which allows remote monitoring by the caregivers and system administrators. Copyright.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 455-464 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | IETE Technical Review (Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India) |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2010 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Assistive technology
- Caregiver monitoring
- Intelligent navigation
- Visually impaired
- Wireless sensor network