In the Internet-of-Things (IoT) era, billions of sensors and devices collect and process data
from the environment, transmit them to cloud centers, and receive feedback via the Internet …

The development of navigation tools for people who are visually impaired had become an
important concern in the research area of assistive technologies. This paper gives a …

As smartphone penetration saturates, we are witnessing a new trend in personal mobile
devices-wearable mobile devices or simply wearables as it is often called. Wearables come …

Navigation systems help users access unfamiliar environments. Current technological
advancements enable users to encapsulate these systems in handheld devices, which …

Over the last few decades, the development in the field of navigation and routing devices
has become a hindering task for the researchers to develop smart and intelligent guiding …

This paper presents a new holistic vision-based mobile assistive navigation system to help
blind and visually impaired people with indoor independent travel. The system detects …

In the last decades there has been a tremendous increase in demand for Assistive
Technologies (AT) useful to overcome functional limitations of individuals and to improve …

Recent statistics of the World Health Organization (WHO), published in October 2017,
estimate that more than 253 million people worldwide suffer from visual impairment (VI) with …

This paper presents ALVU (Array of Lidars and Vibrotactile Units), a contactless, intuitive,
hands-free, and discreet wearable device that allows visually impaired users to detect low …

One-Sixth of the world population is suffering from vision impairment, as per WHO's report. In
the past decades, many efforts have been done in developing several devices to provide …