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Towards an IoT Architecture for Persons with Disabilities and Applications

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Internet of Things Technologies for HealthCare (HealthyIoT 2016)

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Internet of Things is revolutionizing human being daily life with the emerging of a huge number of connected devices. The potential benefits of connected things are limitless especially for persons with disabilities. Indeed, the number of disabled persons in the world today is considerable and their need of special care and adapted solution is a vital need. In this paper an IoT architecture for persons with disabilities is proposed and an IoT system dedicated to the visual impaired persons is implemented ensuring their assistance and security.

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  1. Higher School of Technology ESPRIT, Tunis, Tunisia

    Jihene Haouel, Hind Ghorbel & Hichem Bargaoui

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  1. Jihene Haouel
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Correspondence to Jihene Haouel .

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  1. School Innovation, Design, Engineering, Märlardalen University, Västerås, Sweden

    Mobyen Uddin Ahmed

  2. Mälardalen University , Västerås, Sweden

    Shahina Begum

  3. Computer Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

    Wasim Raad

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Haouel, J., Ghorbel, H., Bargaoui, H. (2016). Towards an IoT Architecture for Persons with Disabilities and Applications. In: Ahmed, M., Begum, S., Raad, W. (eds) Internet of Things Technologies for HealthCare. HealthyIoT 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 187. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51234-1_28

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