Indoor localization and guidance system for disabled people

New technologies and particularly the recent advancements in Wireless Networking have changed our everyday life. Our team, HaNT (Handicap et Nouvelles Technologies) works to bring the same changes to disabled people. This paper presents a specification of a project which aims at providing location-based services for the disabled in an indoor environment. The disabilities taken into account are: motor, hearing and visual impairments. We also present a first implementation using a Wireless Sensor Network and a GSM/GPRS cell identifier to localize a Smartphone.

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