A pervasive assistive environment for visually impaired people using wireless sensor network infrastructure

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 194-206

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Assistive environments; Itineraries; Mobile agents; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE; AUTONOMOUS SOFTWARE; BLIND PEOPLE; COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS; DATA COLLECTION PROCESS; ITINERARIES; MOBILE SINKS; PERFORMANCE GAIN; POTENTIAL HAZARDS; POTENTIAL RISKS; SIMULATION RESULT; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS; WI-FI (IEEE 802.11); WIRELESS SENSOR;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMMUNICATION; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; MOBILE AGENTS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 78649320148     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: 10958592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2010.07.017     Document Type: Article

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