Title :
Multicore portable system for assisting visually impaired people
Author :
Tepelea, Laviniu ; Tiponut, Virgil ; Szolgay, Peter ; Gacsadi, Alexandru
Author_Institution :
Electron. & Telecommun. Dept., Univ. of Oradea, Oradea, Romania
Abstract :
This paper presents a portable system to assist visually impaired people in indoor and outdoor environments. It uses different sensors to detect obstacles and guide them in their movement with the aid of GPS and compass. The main part of the system consists of a multicore android smartphone. Other sensory modules detect obstacles and communicate relevant information to the main part. Optionally, the system can communicate remotely for distance monitoring.
Keywords :
Android (operating system); biomedical equipment; handicapped aids; medical computing; multiprocessing systems; patient monitoring; sensors; smart phones; GPS; compass; distance monitoring; indoor environments; multicore Android smartphone; multicore portable system; obstacle detection; outdoor environments; remote communication; sensors; visually impaired people; Batteries; Global Positioning System; Multicore processing; Robot sensing systems; Smart phones;
Conference_Titel :
Cellular Nanoscale Networks and their Applications (CNNA), 2014 14th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Notre Dame, IN
DOI :
10.1109/CNNA.2014.6888646
