A Low-cost IoT Architecture to support Urban Mobility for Visually Impaired People

TL;DR

This paper presents a low-cost IoT architecture utilizing Single-Border Computers to enhance urban mobility for visually impaired individuals, demonstrating effective bus location tracking in smart city scenarios.

Contribution

It introduces a novel, cost-effective IoT architecture specifically designed to improve urban mobility support for visually impaired people.

Findings

Handles bus trace workload effectively

Suitable for supporting impaired people's mobility needs

Performance evaluation confirms feasibility in smart city scenarios

Abstract

People with visual impairments struggle with urban mobility and independent travel, opening up opportunities for technological advances to improve their quality of life. The Internet of Things (IoT) plays an essential role in bringing improvements and accessibility for visually impaired people. Although alternatives aimed to use IoT in urban mobility, those solutions are still in the initial stages and do not supports urban mobility for people with visual impairment. This paper proposed and evaluated a low-cost IoT architecture that uses Single-Border Computers (SBCs) to support urban mobility. A performance evaluation showcased that our low-cost architecture handles bus trace workload and is suitable for supporting impaired people to get information concerning bus location on Smart Cities scenarios.