Hazard monitoring for visually impaired people enabled by wireless sensor networking technology

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aristides Mpitziopoulos ◽  
Charalampos Konstantopoulos ◽  
Damianos Gavalas ◽  
Grammati Pantziou
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Sensor Networking ◽  
Wireless Sensor Networking ◽  
Networking Technology

Environmental Monitoring Based on the Wireless Sensor Networking Technology

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eirini Karapistoli ◽  
Ioanna Mampentzidou ◽  
Anastasios A. Economides
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
General View ◽  
Monitoring Applications ◽  
Sensor Networking ◽  
Wireless Sensor Networking ◽  
Networking Technology ◽  
Critical Overview

This paper investigates real-life environmental monitoring applications based on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Wireless sensor networking is an emerging technology, which through the research in the labs and the real deployments has proved to be a significant and valuable tool for scientists in their effort to explore various environmental phenomena. During the last decades, this wireless networking technology has been adopted by many scientific fields in order to accurately and effectively monitor climate phenomena such as air pollution, destruction phenomena (i.e., landslides), etc. It has also been widely used in agriculture as well as in horticulture for field monitoring. This paper provides a critical overview of the basic components existing WSN deployments use. It also categorizes these deployments, 111 in total, into five different field categories, namely agricultural monitoring, environmental monitoring, air-water pollution monitoring, monitoring of destruction phenomena, as well as monitoring of livestock, and wild animal, in order to provide a general view of the technologies used, the conditions under which the deployments were conducted, and much more. Then, five easy-to-use guides are provided discussing basic considerations for deploying WSNs in each of these fields. These guides cover various issues, such as sensor node platforms, operating systems (OSs), topologies, installation and maintenance issues, and much more. In order to showcase the usefulness of consulting the resulted guides, this work considers representative application scenarios for each of these field deployments.

Environmental Monitoring Based on the Wireless Sensor Networking Technology

2018 ◽  
pp. 196-251
Author(s):  
Eirini Karapistoli ◽  
Ioanna Mampentzidou ◽  
Anastasios A. Economides
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
General View ◽  
Monitoring Applications ◽  
Sensor Networking ◽  
Wireless Sensor Networking ◽  
Networking Technology ◽  
Critical Overview ◽  
Scientific Fields

This chapter investigates real-life environmental monitoring applications based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Wireless sensor networking is an emerging technology, which has been adopted by many scientific fields in order to accurately and effectively monitor climate phenomena such as air pollution, destruction phenomena, etc. It has also been widely used in agriculture as well as in horticulture for field monitoring. In this chapter, the authors provide a critical overview of the basic components existing WSN deployments use. They also categorize these deployments, 111 in total, into five different field categories in order to provide a general view of the technologies used, the conditions under which the deployments were conducted, and much more. Then, five easy-to-use guides are provided discussing basic considerations for deploying WSNs in each of these fields. In order to showcase the usefulness of consulting the resulted guides, the authors consider representative application scenarios for each of these field deployments.

Environmental Monitoring Based on the Wireless Sensor Networking Technology

2016 ◽  
pp. 1332-1374
Author(s):  
Eirini Karapistoli ◽  
Ioanna Mampentzidou ◽  
Anastasios A. Economides
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
General View ◽  
Monitoring Applications ◽  
Sensor Networking ◽  
Wireless Sensor Networking ◽  
Networking Technology ◽  
Critical Overview

This paper investigates real-life environmental monitoring applications based on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Wireless sensor networking is an emerging technology, which through the research in the labs and the real deployments has proved to be a significant and valuable tool for scientists in their effort to explore various environmental phenomena. During the last decades, this wireless networking technology has been adopted by many scientific fields in order to accurately and effectively monitor climate phenomena such as air pollution, destruction phenomena (i.e., landslides), etc. It has also been widely used in agriculture as well as in horticulture for field monitoring. This paper provides a critical overview of the basic components existing WSN deployments use. It also categorizes these deployments, 111 in total, into five different field categories, namely agricultural monitoring, environmental monitoring, air-water pollution monitoring, monitoring of destruction phenomena, as well as monitoring of livestock, and wild animal, in order to provide a general view of the technologies used, the conditions under which the deployments were conducted, and much more. Then, five easy-to-use guides are provided discussing basic considerations for deploying WSNs in each of these fields. These guides cover various issues, such as sensor node platforms, operating systems (OSs), topologies, installation and maintenance issues, and much more. In order to showcase the usefulness of consulting the resulted guides, this work considers representative application scenarios for each of these field deployments.

Application of IoT Based Stick for Visually Impaired People in CVIS System

CICTP 2020 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ammar Muhammad ◽  
Qizhou Hu ◽  
Muhammad Tayyab ◽  
Yikai Wu ◽  
Muhammad Ahtsham
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People

Widening the horizons: Information space of the library for the blind as the resource to improve quality of life of visually impaired people

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Novikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Advanced Training ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Special Library

The special library acts as the cultural and educational center for visually impaired people, and as the center for continuing education. The multifunctional performance of the library is substantiated. The joint projects accomplished in cooperation with theatres and museums and aimed at integrating the visually impaired people into the society are described. Advanced training projects for the library professionals accomplished in 2018 are discussed.

Touching Blind Bodies: A Critical Inquiry into Pedagogical and Cultural Constructions of Visual Disability in the Nineteenth Century

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Tilley ◽  
Jan Eric Olsén
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Visual Disability ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Cultural Constructions

Changing ideas on the nature of and relationship between the senses in nineteenth-century Europe constructed blindness as a disability in often complex ways. The loss or absence of sight was disabling in this period, given vision’s celebrated status, and visually impaired people faced particular social and educational challenges as well as cultural stereotyping as poor, pitiable and intellectually impaired. However, the experience of blind people also came to challenge received ideas that the visual was the privileged mode of accessing information about the world, and contributed to an increasingly complex understanding of the tactile sense. In this chapter, we consider how changing theories of the senses helped shape competing narratives of identity for visually impaired people in the nineteenth century, opening up new possibilities for the embodied experience of blind people by impressing their sensory ability, rather than lack thereof. We focus on a theme that held particular social and cultural interest in nineteenth-century accounts of blindness: travel and geography.

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