Indoor navigational aid using active RFID and QR-code for sighted and blind people

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 8th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing: Sensing the Future, ISSNIP 2013

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 18-22

  Alghamdi, Saleh ^a   Van Schyndel, Ron ^a   Alahmadi, Ahmed ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLIND PEOPLE; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; MOBILE READERS; NAVIGATION SERVICE; NAVIGATION TECHNIQUES; POSITIONING TECHNIQUES; SHORTEST PATH; SIMULATION SYSTEMS;

DATA PROCESSING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SENSOR NETWORKS; SMART SENSORS;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 84881086638     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSNIP.2013.6529756     Document Type: Conference Paper

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