Smart Guide System to Assist Visually Impaired People in an Indoor Environment

被引:9
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作者
Tee, Z. H. [1 ]
Ang, L. M. [1 ]
Seng, K. P. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Nottingham, Dept Elect & Elect Engn, Selangor 46500, Malaysia
关键词
Assistive technology; Caregiver monitoring; Intelligent navigation; Visually impaired; Wireless sensor network;
D O I
10.4103/0256-4602.68522
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
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.
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页码:455 / 464
页数:10
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