scholarly journals FRIES: First Response Interactive Emergency System for the Visually and Hearing Impaired

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wafa Elmannai, Yi Wang, Eltion Aliaj, Ahnaf Chowdhury, Rishamdeep Khehra, Dilara Yildi, Solange Soria
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Emergency Personnel ◽  
First Response ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Response Systems ◽  
Emergency Detection ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Emergency Response Systems ◽  
Emergency System

It is very challenging for the visually and hearing- impaired people to react properly in case of a fire than the none- visually and hearing impaired. In addition, there is a lack of the current emergency response systems in the market that cater to the needs of visually and hearing-impaired people. Most of the current methods are expensive and unreliable while 90% of visually and hearing-impaired people live in developing countries. Therefore, we proposed a new emergency system called The First Response Interactive Emergency System (FRIES). This system provides all the emergency needs of hearing and visually impaired individuals when they are awake as well as asleep in case of a fire, carbon monoxide, and natural gas leak. It will also notify the emergency personnel and their caregivers. The cost of this system is very affordable. Our system consists of a microcontroller, which will be connected to the LED lights, gas sensors, smoke sensors, fire detector, speaker module, WIFI module, vibrating motors, and LCD display. All sensor data is simultaneous transmitted between the microcontroller and sensors. Our promising results showed that this system can be a complete emergency detection solution to provide safety for the visually and hearing impaired.

scholarly journals Empowering strategic decision-making for wildfire management: avoiding the fear trap and creating a resilient landscape

Fire Ecology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Castellnou ◽  
Núria Prat-Guitart ◽  
Etel Arilla ◽  
Asier Larrañaga ◽  
Edgar Nebot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Strategic Decision Making ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Wildfire Management ◽  
Defensive Strategies ◽  
Response Systems ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Emergency Response Systems

AbstractIn recent years, fire services in Mediterranean Europe have been overwhelmed by extreme wildfire behavior. As a consequence, fire management has moved to defensive strategies with a focus only on the known risks (the fear trap). In this region, wildfires can change rapidly, increasing the uncertainty and causing complex operational scenarios that impact society right from the initial hours. To address this challenge, proactive approaches are an alternative to defensive and reactive strategies.We propose a methodology that integrates the uncertainty of decisions and the cost of each opportunity into the strategic decision-making process. The methodology takes into account values such as fire-fighting safety, organizational resilience, landscape resilience, and social values.Details of the methods and principles used to develop and implement a creative decision-making process that empower the fireline are provided. A tool that segregates the landscape into polygons of fire potential and defines the connectivity between those polygons is used. Two examples of operational implementation of this methodology are presented (2014 Tivissa Fire and 2015 Odena Fire).These methods facilitate the analysis of possible scenarios of resolution and the costs of the opportunities that help build resilient emergency response systems and prevent their collapse. Moreover, they help explain the risk to society and involve citizens in the decision-making process. These methods are based on the experience and lessons learned by European incident commanders, managers, and researchers collected during the last decade.

scholarly journals New approaches to the implementation of information and technical methods for the prevention of emergencies as a result of fire in conditions of damage to the power supply of emergency response systems

2021 ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
Nataly Deyneko ◽  
Mikhailo Divizinyuk ◽  
Оlexandr Levterov ◽  
Volodymyr Mirnenko ◽  
Olga Shevchenko
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Response Systems ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Emergency Response Systems

The paper proposes the development of new approaches to the creation of emergency response systems using non-traditional power supplies in the event of damage to traditional power supply systems.The main idea of the work is the formation of integrated approaches to alternative methods based on the phenomenon of acoustic emission (AE) using an unconventional power source based on film solar cells on flexible substrates. The creation of photoconverters based on thin films from a variety of materials and compounds is a promising direction in the development of solar energy. Unfortunately, the efficiency of these photoconverters is not yet high enough, but the cost of equipment for their creation, and hence the cost of instrument structures, is already quite acceptable.The investigated solar cells were obtained by the method of thermal vacuum evaporation using a UVN67 vacuum unit with modified internal equipment.After manufacturing, solar cells (SCs) were investigated under standard laboratory conditions adopted for the study of solar cells for ground-based use, i.e. in the AM 1.5 mode with a luminous flux power of 100 mW / cm2 and a temperature of 25 ° C. To study degradation processes in such solar cells after measuring the initial parameters The solar cells were placed in a sealed plastic box and kept for 4 years at a temperature of 15-25 ° СChecking the elements demonstrate high degradation resistance, which provides general requirements for the material and the conditions for its creation promising for use as unconventional sources of power supply for emergency response systems and ensuring the use of information and technical methods for preventing emergency situations as a result of fire in conditions of damage to the power supply of emergency response systems.

scholarly journals 3D Avatar Approach for Continuous Sign Movement Using Speech/Text

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 3439
Author(s):  
Debashis Das Chakladar ◽  
Pradeep Kumar ◽  
Shubham Mandal ◽  
Partha Pratim Roy ◽  
Masakazu Iwamura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Learning System ◽  
English Sentence ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Indian Sign Language ◽  
Impaired Person ◽  
3D Avatar

Sign language is a visual language for communication used by hearing-impaired people with the help of hand and finger movements. Indian Sign Language (ISL) is a well-developed and standard way of communication for hearing-impaired people living in India. However, other people who use spoken language always face difficulty while communicating with a hearing-impaired person due to lack of sign language knowledge. In this study, we have developed a 3D avatar-based sign language learning system that converts the input speech/text into corresponding sign movements for ISL. The system consists of three modules. Initially, the input speech is converted into an English sentence. Then, that English sentence is converted into the corresponding ISL sentence using the Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique. Finally, the motion of the 3D avatar is defined based on the ISL sentence. The translation module achieves a 10.50 SER (Sign Error Rate) score.

Designing ICT Applications for Hearing-Impaired People in Asia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ganesh Bhutkar ◽  
Yohannes Kurniawan ◽  
Johan Johan ◽  
Dhananjay Bhole ◽  
Shrikant Salve ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Impaired People

Low Cost Sensor Data Fusion in Omnidirectional Mobile Robot Feedback System to Improve the Navigation Accuracy

2014 ◽  
Vol 607 ◽  
pp. 791-794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Kang Tey ◽  
Che Fai Yeong ◽  
Yip Loon Seow ◽  
Eileen Lee Ming Su ◽  
Swee Ho Tang
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Robot ◽  
Sensor Fusion ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Feedback System ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Research Setting ◽  
Fusion Technique ◽  
Omnidirectional Mobile Robot ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Navigation Accuracy

Omnidirectional mobile robot has gained popularity among researchers. However, omnidirectional mobile robot is rarely been applied in industry field especially in the factory which is relatively more dynamic than normal research setting condition. Hence, it is very important to have a stable yet reliable feedback system to allow a more efficient and better performance controller on the robot. In order to ensure the reliability of the robot, many of the researchers use high cost solution in the feedback of the robot. For example, there are researchers use global camera as feedback. This solution has increases the cost of the robot setup fee to a relatively high amount. The setup system is also hard to modify and lack of flexibility. In this paper, a novel sensor fusion technique is proposed and the result is discussed.

Localization of Sound Sources in Normal Hearing and in Hearing Impaired People

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 683-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Niewiarowicz ◽  
Tomasz Kaczmarek
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Noise ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Directional Hearing ◽  
Sound Sources ◽  
Hearing Ability ◽  
Modified Method ◽  
Noise Type ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
New System

Abstract This article presents results of investigations of the angle of directional hearing acuity (ADHA) as a measure of the spatial hearing ability with a special emphasis on people with hearing impairments. A modified method proposed by Zakrzewski has been used - ADHA values have been determined for 8 azimuths in the horizontal plane at the height of the listeners' head. The two-alternative-forced-choice method (2AFC), based on a new system of listeners' responses (left - right instead of no difference - difference in location of sound sources) was the procedure used in the experiment. Investigations were carried out for two groups of subjects: normal hearing people (9 persons) and hearing impaired people (sensorineural hearing loss and tinnitus - 9 persons). In the experiment different acoustic signals were used: sinusoidal signals (pure tones), 1/3 octave noise, amplitude modulated 1/3 octave noise, CCITT speech and traffic noises and signals corresponding to personal character of tinnitus for individual subjects. The results obtained in the investigations showed, in general, a better localization of the sound source for noise type signals than those for tonal signals. Inessential differences exist in ADHA values for particular signals between the two groups of subjects. On the other hand, significant differences for tinnitus signals and traffic noise signals were stated. A new system of listeners' responses was used and appeared efficient (less dispersion of results compared to the standard system).

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