Hazard monitoring for visually impaired people enabled by Wireless Sensor Networking technology

1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Mpitziopoulos, Aristides ^a   Konstantopoulos, Charalampos ^b   Gavalas, Damianos ^a   Pantziou, Grammati ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b Research Academic Computer   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Assistive environments; Itineraries; Mobile Agents; Wireless Sensor Networks

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MOBILE AGENTS; ONLINE SEARCHING; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES; ASSISTIVE ENVIRONMENTS; AUTONOMOUS SOFTWARES; COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS; DATA COLLECTION PROCESS; ITINERARIES; MOBILE SINKS; NETWORKING TECHNOLOGIES; PERFORMANCE GAINS; POTENTIAL HAZARDS; POTENTIAL RISKS; SIMULATION RESULTS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLES; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 57549084311     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1389586.1389612     Document Type: Conference Paper

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