Innovative services for informing visually impaired persons in indoor environments

Dragan Peraković; Marko Periša; Ivan Cvitić; Luka Brletić

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Innovative services for informing visually impaired persons in indoor environments

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@ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.5-3-2019.156720,
    author={Dragan Peraković and Marko Periša and Ivan Cvitić and Luka Brletić},
    title={Innovative services for informing visually impaired persons in indoor environments},
    journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of Things},
    volume={4},
    number={15},
    publisher={EAI},
    journal_a={IOT},
    year={2018},
    month={7},
    keywords={Ambient assisted living, Assistive technology, Enhanced Living Environments, Sensors, Wristband},
    doi={10.4108/eai.5-3-2019.156720}
}

Dragan Peraković
Marko Periša
Ivan Cvitić
Luka Brletić
Year: 2018
Innovative services for informing visually impaired persons in indoor environments
IOT
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.5-3-2019.156720

Dragan Peraković¹^,*, Marko Periša¹, Ivan Cvitić¹, Luka Brletić¹

1: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Department of Information and Communications Traffic, Vukelićeva 4, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia

*Contact email: dragan.perakovic@fpz.hr

Abstract

Movement and informing visually impaired persons is difficult because mobile application solutions and services are unable to work in indoors environments (location based service using GPS technology). Main precondition for active participation in the daily living and needs of visually impaired persons is increased degree of mobility. The aim of this research is to increase the quality of life of visually impaired persons and the degree of mobility in indoor environments by applying modern information and communication technologies (Cloud Computing, Fog, IoT, AAL / ELE platform). User requirement will be used to define functionalities of service for informing visually impaired persons in the example of large retail chains. A conceptual system architecture model will be proposed for providing information service with the aim to provide real-time information to users. This research will also show simulation testing of the proposed architecture with Arduino Uno and Raspberry Pi 3 platforms for collecting information and informing end users.

Keywords: Ambient assisted living, Assistive technology, Enhanced Living Environments, Sensors, Wristband

Received: 2018-06-04
Accepted: 2018-07-12
Published: 2018-07-23
Publisher: EAI

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.5-3-2019.156720

Copyright © 2018 Dragan Peraković et al., licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.