• DocumentCode
    1870212
  • Title

    Wireless indoor positioning system for the visually impaired

  • Author

    Wawrzyniak, Piotr ; Korbel, Piotr

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Electron., Lodz Univ. of Technol., Lodz, Poland
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    8-11 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    907
  • Lastpage
    910
  • Abstract
    The paper presents a prototype radio network aiding the visually impaired to navigate in indoor areas. The main purpose of the system is to provide accurate and reliable location information as well as to enable access to location related context information. The nodes of the network operate in two modes providing basis for both rough and precise user position estimation. The data transmitted by the nodes are used to get access to additional services, e.g. to retrieve position related context information.
  • Keywords
    handicapped aids; indoor radio; position control; radionavigation; ubiquitous computing; wireless sensor networks; indoor areas; location related context information; position related context information; prototype radio network; user position estimation; visually impaired; wireless indoor positioning system; Buildings; Databases; Radio navigation; Radio transmitters; Search methods; Servers; Context-aware services; indoor radio communication; location services; personal communication networks; pervasive computing; radio navigation; wireless sensor networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), 2013 Federated Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Krako??w
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6644119