Better campus life for visually impaired University students: intelligent social walking system with beacon and assistiv
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Better campus life for visually impaired University students: intelligent social walking system with beacon and assistive technologies Utku Kose1
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Pandian Vasant2
Published online: 8 November 2018 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2018
Abstract Objective of this study is to introduce a novel, low-cost intelligent social walking path support system for visually impaired students in a wide campus area, by employing beacons, optimization based Artificial Intelligence techniques, Big Data support, and a system rising over Internet of Things. In detail, the developed system has been used within two connected campus areas of Suleyman Demirel University located in the city of Isparta in Turkey and an effective walking path support was ensured for enabling visually students to go target locations with instructions given by an intelligent system. In this way, it is also aimed to enable students to experience a better campus life. The study done here is unique with its Artificial Intelligence oriented characteristics ensuring an intelligent navigation control and planning system by benefiting from only interactions among beacons and mobile devices as not requiring to use physical road bumps, so lowering costs by eliminating both physical components and advanced communication systems. Also, other students’ data over social media environments are used as Big Data to support effective decisions taken by the system. After real implementation of the system, too much positive feedback was obtained from visually impaired students. Keywords Beacon Radio navigation Artificial intelligence Internet of things Optimization Big data
1 Introduction Because we are not only one living organism in the planet of World and there is the fact that there are many conditions affecting our living experience over the butterfly effect, discoveries and inventions have become a common part of the life. From a general perspective, it is possible to mention that especially inventions have been valuable outputs of researches trying to eliminate disadvantages or limitations that the humankind encounters often. At this point, one of the most important mysteries here is people with disabilities and research efforts for seeking solutions & Utku Kose [email protected] Pandian Vasant [email protected]; [email protected] 1
Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Suleyman Demirel University, E9 Block, Z-23, West Campus, 32260, Isparta, Turkey
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Department of Fundamental and Applied Sciences, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Seri Iskander, Perak, Malaysia
to eliminate the limitations on their abilities seems to be always a popular effort for achieving an optimum level of life standards. That tries to have optimum level of life standards is something like reaching a better life. So, there is a need for visually impaired people to receive some special adjustments for having a desired quality in their daily life. That issue becomes more vital
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