Blind Guide: An Ultrasound Sensor-based Body Area Network for Guiding Blind People

نویسندگان

  • António Pereira
  • Nelson Nunes
  • Daniel Vieira
  • Nuno Manuel Silva Costa
  • Hugo Fernandes
  • João Barroso
چکیده

Wireless Sensor Networks, in particular Wireless Body Area Networks, is a technology as allowing blind people, or people with some kind of disability, to live in a safer and comfortable environment One of the most active threats of blind people is variety of obstacles they face while moving in the footpath or coming out from a building.it is necessary to develop a solution that helps blind people while moving either in indoor or outdoor scenarios, simultaneously allowing them to use white cane or the Seeing Eye dogThe proposed system uses an ultra-sound based body area network for obstacle detection and warning which is best solution for blind people.

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تاریخ انتشار 2015