Social, Medical, and Educational Applications of IoT to Assist Visually Impaired People

Title

Social, Medical, and Educational Applications of IoT to Assist Visually Impaired People

Creator

Sharma S.; Umme Salma M.

Description

General daily tasks have always been a problem for visually impaired people. Identification of daily objects becomes a hectic task. Traditional methods such as a walking stick and a guide dog have been helpful to the visually impaired for basic navigation. Such, methods have a lot of limitations and often fail under varied situations. Technologies such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Image Processing (IP) Internet of Things (IoT), etc. have made a major contribution to overcoming the limitations. IoT brings a lot of technical and automated solutions to assist the visually impaired people. Data science and analytics are a major part of the process. Data accumulated via various sensors can be processed and used to identify obstacles and enhance basic navigation using haptic and voice feedback. Raw data goes through a series of analysis and refinement. This is then processed into a form which is understandable to the system and can be directly interpreted to perform various components of an application. These applications involve education, navigation, entertainment, security, consumer, etc. These applications are across various verticals of technologies differing in terms of hardware, software, and protocols. Various economically feasible and accurate solutions are now available. While, optimization remains an issue. These devices have generally been very helpful to ease the lives of visually impaired people. The main aim of this article is to provide essential details related to real-world applications of IoT in the field of education, healthcare, entertainment, security, navigation, and solutions to address the daily challenges faced by visually impaired people. The structure of the article includes introduction to IoT, applications of IoT in modern era is dealt in detail in Sect.10.1. Followed by hardware device and communication technologies in Sect.10.2. Section10.3 deals with state of art which focus majorly on research contributions related to applications of IoT and smart devices benefiting the lives of visually impaired. Section10.4 incorporates the future scope and concludes with a summary in Sect.10.5. The article covers more than 30 research contributions in the pastten years which includes journal papers, conference papers and patents which provide a detailed and clear view on the research being carried out in the field of IoT to help the visually impaired. 2021, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

Source

Studies in Big Data, Vol-73, pp. 195-214.

Date

2021-01-01

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

Subject

Arduino; IoT; Machine learning; Sensor applications; Sensors; Smart devices; Wearable sensors

Coverage

Sharma S., Department of Computer Science, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India; Umme Salma M., Department of Computer Science, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 21976503

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4112-4_10

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