An indoor navigation system for visually impaired and elderly people based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

Information Sciences

Volumn 320, Issue , 2015, Pages 288-305

  Tsirmpas, Charalampos ^a   Rompas, Alexander ^a   Fokou, Orsalia ^a   Koutsouris, Dimitris ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ambient assisted living; Indoor localization; Indoor Navigation Systems (INS); Radio Frequency Identification (RFID); Visually impaired

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO NAVIGATION; RADIO WAVES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; INDOOR LOCALIZATION; INDOOR NAVIGATION SYSTEM; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; USABILITY PROBLEMS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE;

INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85028194495     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2014.08.011     Document Type: Article

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