Rudo: a home ambient intelligence system for blind people

Hudec, Milan, 1966-

Rudo: a home ambient intelligence system for blind people / Milan Hudec, Zdeněk Smutný. -- The article introduces an ambient intelligence system for blind people which besides providing assistance in home environment also helps with various situations and roles in which blind people may find themselves involved. RUDO, the designed system, comprises several modules that mainly support or ensure recognition of approaching people, alerting to other household members' movement in the flat, work on a computer, supervision of (sighted) children, cooperation of a sighted and a blind person (e.g., when studying), control of heating and zonal regulation by a blind person. It has a unified user interface that gives the blind person access to individual functions. The interface for blind people offers assistance with work on a computer, including writing in Braille on a regular keyboard and specialized work in informatics and electronics (e.g., programming). RUDO can complement the standard aids used by blind people at home, it increases their independence and creates conditions.

In Sensors. -- Basel : Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2017. -- ISSN 1424-8220. -- Vol. 17, no. 8 (2017), pp. [1-45]