By Dayanara Agila 2012-2013

1. RADIO FREQUENCY
IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR
BLIND PEOPLE
By: DAYANARA AGILA

2. The Radio Frequency System
Time Line
 It appeared like a Soviet tool in 1945
 In 1973 Mario Cardullo invented the true
ancestor of RFID system

3. WHAT RFID IS?
 It is a non contact system that uses
radio frequency electromagnetic fields
to transfer information to another for
the purpose of automatic identification.
 Ecuadorian government should
implement this system as a solution
for blind people problems because it
will improve their navigation, will
replace the methods used before, it
will increase their dependence and
also it will provide more security.

4. NAVIGATION SYSTEM:
The RFID system improve the navigation in two
kind of environments:
INDOOR
INFRASTRUCTURE
 It provides travel information from location to another,
describing position and location.
 It can be inserted in pathways inside a building and
give information about rooms numbers, corridors and
also the name building.
Indoor navigation
infrastructure with Wi-Fi and
Bluetooth.
(Finnish Geodetic Institute)

5. OUTDOOR
INFRASTRUCTURE
 Is concerned with route
of information from the
origin to the
destination.
 It is waterproof and
heat resistance.
 This allows for a self
describing, localized
information system with
no dependency on a
centralized database

6. RFID tag inside a building
indicating where are the stairs
(Indoor Navigation)
RFID tags located in a corner of
a street in USA for improve the
outdoor navigation

7. PROVIDE ONLINE
INFORMATION
 Each RFID tag contains a unique ID and it
generally contains an antenna that creates a
small charge that is enough to cause the tag to
transmit its ID.
 The blind person can be monitored receiving
information from a central base for being help
in case of emergency.

8. RFID SYSTEM AND OLD
METHODS
SIGHTED GUIDES
 They can decrease the
dependence and self-esteem
because have to stay with
blind people permanently
 Sighted Guides have to
know a technique
 The private nurses earn
approximately $25.000 to
$60.000 per month.

9. GUIDE DOGS
 According Asthma and
Allergy Foundation of
America, 15% of allergy
sufferers are disabled
people
 The estimated of cost of
the full training program
are from $25,000 to
$65,000 per dog.
 The maintenance is
approximately $5.000
annually.

10. The RFID Technology
 The implementation of
the RFID technology
will permit blind children
and adults gain
confidence by
themselves.
 In indoor navigation is
estimated that the cost
to equip a floor is
around $120 dollars this
means a less cost than
$1 per square foot.

11. The RFID System will increase the
confidence and self-esteem
 At some point in their lives visually
impaired people begin to lose their
confidence and self-esteem as a result
they feel useless as a person.
 The applications of the RFID method
have been made ​with the purpose to
help a visually impaired person feel
confidently secure to transport
themselves from one place to another
as the system allows an autonomous
mobilization

12. Institutions Research
Institutions in USA and Italy had been analyzing the effectiveness of the system.
According with the Central Michigan University they are working on a electronic cane, where
they worked with 7 individuals people and they describe the system as easy to use, with a
better organization in the orientation to get a safe information.
New technology will provide a blind person with audio directions to destinations.

13. The RFID will provide more
security
 They provide security for the user and the information
stored, protecting the coordinates of navigation.
 A professor of computer science at the University of
Florida, he suggest that the information that each tag will
contain will be administrated and controlled by a
government entity or the mayor of the respective city.
 The traffic police will update the network and control the
information in the streets to avoid the incorrect
manipulation of data

14. CONCLUSION.- The system is on this way to become a
viable solution for aiding in the organization and navigation for the
blind and partially sighted people.
 This would allow the blind to save money and avoid a
lot of expenses since the difference to maintain and
pay the dog guide or human guides is quite large
 System will increase their confidence enabling them to
move independently and in an organized orientation in
indoor and outdoor spaces and getting to be a more
normal person in the society.
 The security that this system provides for the person.
This frequency radio will not allow the modification of
the information