PathPass: Opening Doors for People with Disabilities

Panagiotis Lymperopoulos; Kevin Meade

4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies"

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PathPass: Opening Doors for People with Disabilities

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257302,
    author={Panagiotis Lymperopoulos and Kevin Meade},
    title={PathPass: Opening Doors for People with Disabilities},
    proceedings={4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies"},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={MOBIHEALTH},
    year={2014},
    month={12},
    keywords={door opener pressure pad smart cane smart wheelchair},
    doi={10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257302}
}

Panagiotis Lymperopoulos
Kevin Meade
Year: 2014
PathPass: Opening Doors for People with Disabilities
MOBIHEALTH
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257302

Panagiotis Lymperopoulos^,*, Kevin Meade¹

1: Author

*Contact email: plympero1@gmail.com

Abstract

Conventional “push a button” door openers introduce significant difficulty for disabled persons using canes or wheelchairs. This paper presents a new design for creating easy and safe accessibility conditions through the establishment of an advanced interaction between the person and the accessibility control of the building. Based on this concept, an integrated architecture for door openers, called PathPass, is proposed that introduces easy to use equipment by the person and to the door’s control unit allowing the performance of a wide range of operational modes. Finally a prototype implementation of PathPass is presented

Keywords: door opener pressure pad smart cane smart wheelchair

Published: 2014-12-05
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257302