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Blind Guide: An Ultrasound Sensor-based Body Area Network for Guiding Blind People
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Resumo(s)
Wireless Sensor Networks, in particular Wireless Body Area Networks, is a technology suggested by the research community as allowing elderly people, or people with some kind of disability, to live in a safer, responsive and comfortable environment while at their homes. One of the most active threats to the autonomous life of blind people is the quantity and variety of obstacles they face while moving, whether they are obstacles in the footpath or obstacles coming out from the walls of buildings. Hence, it is necessary to develop a solution that helps or assists blind people while moving either in indoor or outdoor scenarios, simultaneously allowing the use of the use of white cane or the Seeing Eye dog. In this article, the authors propose the use of an ultra-sound based body area network for obstacle detection and warning as a complementary and effective solution for aiding blind people when moving from place to place. According to the cost estimates of the solution and to the negligible setup time, this could be a real effective complementary solution for blind people.
Descrição
Conference name: 6th International Conference on Software Development and Technologies for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion, 2015, Sankt Augustin, 10 June 2015 - 12 June 2015.
Conference code: 123108
Conference code: 123108
Palavras-chave
BAN Blind guiding ultra-sound
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Pereira, António & Nunes, Nelson & Vieira, Daniel & Costa, Nuno & Fernandes, Hugo & Barroso, Joao. (2015). Blind Guide: An Ultrasound Sensor-based Body Area Network for Guiding Blind People. Procedia Computer Science. 67. 403-408. 10.1016/j.procs.2015.09.285.
Editora
Elsevier