RFID and dead-reckoning-based indoor navigation for visually impaired pedestrians

Kai Li Lim, Kah Phooi Seng, Lee Seng Yeong, Li Minn Ang

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    Abstract

    This chapter presents an indoor navigation solution for visually impaired pedestrians, which employs a combination of a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag array and dead-reckoning to achieve positioning and localisation. This form of positioning aims to reduce the deployment cost and complexity of pure RFID array implementations. This is a smartphone-based navigation system that leverages the new advancements of smartphone hardware to achieve large data handling and fast pathfinding. Users interact with the system through speech recognition and synthesis. This approach allows the system to be accessible to the masses due to the ubiquity of smartphones today. Uninformed pathfinding algorithms are implemented onto this system based on our previous study on the implementation suitability of uninformed searches. Testing results showed that this navigation system is suitable for use for the visually impaired pedestrians; and the pathfinding algorithms performed consistently according to our algorithm proposals.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationHandbook of research on recent developments in intelligent communication application
    EditorsSiddhartha Bhattacharyya, Nibara Das, Debotosh Bhattacharjee, Anirban Mukherjee
    Place of PublicationHershey, PA
    PublisherIGI Global
    Chapter15
    Pages380-396
    Number of pages17
    Edition1st
    ISBN (Electronic)9781522517863
    ISBN (Print)9781522517856
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2017

    Publication series

    NameAdvances in wireless technologies and telecommunication (AWTT) book series

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