Journal
COMPUTING
Volume 103, Issue 6, Pages 1233-1254Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00607-021-00947-5
Keywords
Electronic cane; Internet of Things; IoT architecture; Mobility; Smart cities; Visual impairment; Assistive technology
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- Brazilian National Council of Scientific & Technological Development-CNPq [315338/2018-0]
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa no Estado de Santa Catarina -FAPESC, (Programa Sinapse da Inovacao Operacao SC III)
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The Internet of Things aims to integrate smart devices into daily life, improving the efficiency of systems in various domains. However, the field of assistive technology remains underexplored, presenting opportunities for further research and development.
The Internet of Things envisions that objects of everyday life will be equipped with sensors, microcontrollers, transceivers for digital communication and suitable protocol which communicates among them and with users, becoming an integral part of Internet. Due to the growing developments in digital technologies, Smart Cities have been equipped with different electronic devices based on IoT and several applications are being created for most diverse areas of knowledge making systems more efficient. However, Assistive technology is a field that is not enough explored in this scenario yet. In this work, an integrated framework with an IoT architecture customized for an electronic cane (electronic travel aid designed for the visually impaired) has been designed. The architecture is organized by a five-layer architecture: edge technology, gateway, Internet, middleware and application. This new feature brings the ability to connect to environment devices, receiving the coordinates of their geographic locations, alerting the user when it is close to anyone of these devices and sending those coordinates to a web application for smart monitoring. Preliminary studies and experimental tests with three blind users of the Cane show that this approach would contribute to get more spatial information from the environment improving mobility of visually impaired people.
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