{"id":4143,"date":"2019-09-24T11:24:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T11:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2019-09-24T11:24:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T11:24:45","slug":"beacon-based-navigation-for-the-visually-impaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/beacon-based-navigation-for-the-visually-impaired\/","title":{"rendered":"Beacon Based Navigation for the Visually Impaired"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s a useful recent research paper by Basem AL-Madani, Farid Orujov, Rytis Maskeli\u016bnas, Robertas Dama\u0161evi\u010dius,and Algimantas Ven\u010dkauskas on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Fuzzy Logic Type-2 Based Wireless Indoor Localization System for Navigation of Visually Impaired People in Buildings (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1424-8220\/19\/9\/2114\/htm\" target=\"_blank\">Fuzzy Logic Type-2 Based Wireless Indoor Localization System for Navigation of Visually Impaired People in Buildings<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/visuallyimpairedsystem-1024x472.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/visuallyimpairedsystem-1024x472.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/visuallyimpairedsystem-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/visuallyimpairedsystem-768x354.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/visuallyimpairedsystem-1200x553.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The paper explores indoor location algorithms and implements a fingerprinting system using RSSI that achieves an average error of 0.43m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/visuallyimpairedcomparison-1024x530.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/visuallyimpairedcomparison-1024x530.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/visuallyimpairedcomparison-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/visuallyimpairedcomparison-768x398.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/visuallyimpairedcomparison-1200x621.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors&#8217; &#8216;fuzzy logic type-2&#8217; system allows for complex environments such as buildings with glass\/metal corridors. They comment that fingerprinting requires pre-configuration which is one of the main disadvantages of this method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a useful recent research paper by Basem AL-Madani, Farid Orujov, Rytis Maskeli\u016bnas, Robertas Dama\u0161evi\u010dius,and Algimantas Ven\u010dkauskas on Fuzzy Logic Type-2 Based Wireless Indoor Localization System for Navigation of Visually Impaired People in Buildings. The paper explores indoor location algorithms and implements a fingerprinting system using RSSI that achieves an average error of 0.43m. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/beacon-based-navigation-for-the-visually-impaired\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beacon Based Navigation for the Visually Impaired&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,197,32,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}