Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Book Chapter Book Chapter Faculty Publications- Book Chapter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Social, Medical, and Educational Applications of IoT to Assist Visually Impaired People Subject The topic of the resource Arduino; IoT; Machine learning; Sensor applications; Sensors; Smart devices; Wearable sensors Description An account of the resource 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. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sharma S.; Umme Salma M. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Studies in Big Data, Vol-73, pp. 195-214. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4112-4_10" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4112-4_10</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85132768583&amp;doi=10.1007%2F978-981-15-4112-4_10&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=ab3b7bfece2d1396cb2aceb536c4714c" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85132768583&amp;doi=10.1007%2f978-981-15-4112-4_10&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=ab3b7bfece2d1396cb2aceb536c4714c</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Restricted Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 21976503 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Book chapter Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 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