Research Article
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) enhanced Indoor Navigation Framework for Seniors
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257368, author={Charalampos Tsirmpas and Athanasios Anastasiou and Alexander Rompas and Dimitris Koutsouris}, title={Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) enhanced Indoor Navigation Framework for Seniors}, 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={radio frequency identification (rfid) indoor navigation systems (ins) visually impaired ambient assisted living indoor localization}, doi={10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257368} }- Charalampos Tsirmpas
Athanasios Anastasiou
Alexander Rompas
Dimitris Koutsouris
Year: 2014
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) enhanced Indoor Navigation Framework for Seniors
MOBIHEALTH
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257368
Abstract
One of the most challenging limitations for the elderly and/or the visually impaired people is the inability of self-navigation in unfamiliar indoor environments. Numerous existing indoor navigation systems have been proposed in order to solve such problems. However, these papers do not adequately examine the effectiveness of the systems in real time trials and are faced with a variety of technical and usability problems. In our paper, we present a unique and elegant architecture of an indoor navigation system as an integrated and tested system in real time. This solution enables the localization of the user, as well as the navigation, considering scenarios that the user might follow and suggests guidelines for self- navigation.