RFID and dead-reckoning-based indoor navigation for visually impaired pedestrians

K L Lim; K P Seng; L S Yeong; Li-Minn Ang

doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-1785-6.ch015

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RFID and dead-reckoning-based indoor navigation for visually impaired pedestrians

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RFID and dead-reckoning-based indoor navigation for visually impaired pedestrians

K L Lim, K P Seng, L S Yeong and Li-Minn Ang

Handbook of Research on Recent Developments in Intelligent Communication Application, pp.380-396

IGI Global

2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1785-6.ch015

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Abstract

Speech recognition

Data handling

Navigation

Navigation systems

Radio frequency identification (RFID)

Radio navigation

Smartphones

Dead reckoning

Deployment costs

In-door navigations

Localisation

Path-finding algorithms

Pathfinding

This chapter presents an indoor navigation solution for visually impaired pedestrians, which employs a combination of a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag array and dead-reckoning to achieve positioning and localisation. This form of positioning aims to reduce the deployment cost and complexity of pure RFID array implementations. This is a smartphone-based navigation system that leverages the new advancements of smartphone hardware to achieve large data handling and fast pathfinding. Users interact with the system through speech recognition and synthesis. This approach allows the system to be accessible to the masses due to the ubiquity of smartphones today. Uninformed pathfinding algorithms are implemented onto this system based on our previous study on the implementation suitability of uninformed searches. Testing results showed that this navigation system is suitable for use for the visually impaired pedestrians; and the pathfinding algorithms performed consistently according to our algorithm proposals.

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Title: RFID and dead-reckoning-based indoor navigation for visually impaired pedestrians
Authors: K L Lim (Author) - The University of Western Australia
K P Seng (Author) - Charles Sturt University
L S Yeong (Author) - Sunway University
Li-Minn Ang (Author) - Charles Sturt University
Publication details: Handbook of Research on Recent Developments in Intelligent Communication Application, pp.380-396
Publisher: IGI Global
Date published: 2017
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1785-6.ch015; 10.4018/978-1-5225-1785-6
ISBN: 9781522517863
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering; Engage Research Lab
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99513894802621
Output Type: Book chapter

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