Navigation system for blind, hearing and visually impaired people in ITU Ayazaga campus

Serdar Bilgi; Ozge Ozturk; Ayse Giz Gulnerman

doi:10.1109/ICCNI.2017.8123814

Navigation system for blind, hearing and visually impaired people in ITU Ayazaga campus

Serdar Bilgi, Ozge Ozturk, Ayse Giz Gulnerman

Department of Geomatics Engineering

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Abstract

Navigation systems for impaired people is one of the recent developed applications for hearing or visually impaired people within the context of the in-door navigation technology that compatible with the smart phones. Loud steps is one of the examples of them. The application serves for guiding hearing and visually impaired people with the help of reading voice features of routing to independently around various places. Offices, homes, schools, hospitals, bus stations, airports, public institutions and other social and sport facilities⋯etc. are among these destinations. It has been downloaded and used by 130.000 users including more than 20.000 visually impaired people at various institutions in 11 countries. The first implementation of the loud steps in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) was the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Ayazaga Campus area. Subsequently, the application has been established for another 4 buildings including lecture halls and 3 techno park buildings in campus. During the later stages of this project, the establishment of system will be carried out for the remained 12 faculties and 6 institutes located in the campus area. Moreover, outdoor navigation system also established to the campus to make all indoor system integrated for the benefits of hearing or visually impaired people around the whole 2.500.000 square meters campus area. Therefore, ITU Ayazaga Campus has an integrated indoor and outdoor navigation systems which taking these kind of people from any campus entrances using the outdoor navigation systems and to the any halls, lecturer's offices, laboratories, information desk, toilets, elevators also other emergency facilities such as fire exits or fire-escape stairs⋯etc. providing voice guidance with also visual navigation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Informatics, ICCNI 2017
Editors	Victor Olu Matthews, Adewole Adewumi, Sanjay Misr
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1-5
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509046423
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCNI.2017.8123814
Publication status	Published - 28 Nov 2017
Event	2017 IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Informatics, ICCNI 2017 - Lagos, Nigeria Duration: 29 Oct 2017 → 31 Oct 2017

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Name	Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Informatics, ICCNI 2017
Volume	2017-January

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Conference	2017 IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Informatics, ICCNI 2017
Country/Territory	Nigeria
City	Lagos
Period	29/10/17 → 31/10/17

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© 2017 IEEE.

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In this study, hearing or visually impaired students/academicians/staff/and also guests of ITU can be positioned at both indoor and outdoor environments in the campus area by loud steps. Loud Steps uses Bluetooth beacons transmitting position signals and calculate the distance between the emitter and the receiver (smart phones of the users). There are examples of campus navigation projects for hearing or visually impaired students, academicians, staff and guests to guide without any help other than the application. One of this kind of application project has started to test in the University College Cork Campus. The project includes participation test phase with long-cane or guide dog users to highlight who need to check their location frequently. The study depends on some other experimental inferences like changing useful sounds cues of campus area with the example of river and the pavement. The application infrastructure is supported by GNSS and Bluetooth combined with wireless inertial measurement units technologies for positioning [4]. ACKNOWLEDGMENT This paper is based on the one of the project of Istanbul Technical University within the concept of Accessible Campus. Authors would like to gratefully acknowledge the support from Sarper Silaoglu/Boni Global and Loud Steps Organization and Cagri Artan/Coordinator of ITU Impaired Unit for their assistances.

Funders	Funder number
GNSS
International Technological University

Keywords

Hearing or Visually Impaired
Indoor-Navigation
Loud Steps
Outdoor-Navigation

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Bilgi, S., Ozturk, O., & Gulnerman, A. G. (2017). Navigation system for blind, hearing and visually impaired people in ITU Ayazaga campus. In V. O. Matthews, A. Adewumi, & S. Misr (Eds.), Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Informatics, ICCNI 2017 (pp. 1-5). (Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Informatics, ICCNI 2017; Vol. 2017-January). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCNI.2017.8123814

Bilgi, Serdar ; Ozturk, Ozge ; Gulnerman, Ayse Giz. / Navigation system for blind, hearing and visually impaired people in ITU Ayazaga campus. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Informatics, ICCNI 2017. editor / Victor Olu Matthews ; Adewole Adewumi ; Sanjay Misr. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. pp. 1-5 (Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Informatics, ICCNI 2017).

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Bilgi, S, Ozturk, O & Gulnerman, AG 2017, Navigation system for blind, hearing and visually impaired people in ITU Ayazaga campus. in VO Matthews, A Adewumi & S Misr (eds), Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Informatics, ICCNI 2017. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Informatics, ICCNI 2017, vol. 2017-January, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 1-5, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Informatics, ICCNI 2017, Lagos, Nigeria, 29/10/17. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCNI.2017.8123814

Navigation system for blind, hearing and visually impaired people in ITU Ayazaga campus. / Bilgi, Serdar; Ozturk, Ozge; Gulnerman, Ayse Giz.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Informatics, ICCNI 2017. ed. / Victor Olu Matthews; Adewole Adewumi; Sanjay Misr. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. p. 1-5 (Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Informatics, ICCNI 2017; Vol. 2017-January).

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Bilgi S, Ozturk O, Gulnerman AG. Navigation system for blind, hearing and visually impaired people in ITU Ayazaga campus. In Matthews VO, Adewumi A, Misr S, editors, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Informatics, ICCNI 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2017. p. 1-5. (Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Informatics, ICCNI 2017). doi: 10.1109/ICCNI.2017.8123814

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