• UMass Engineering Quad

About

BLuEye is a navigation system that will guide the blind and visually impaired in unfamiliar indoor and outdoor environments. The system utilizes a mobile application that communicates with Bluetooth Low Energy beacons to establish user location and provide voice instructions for guidance to a specified destination. The application uses RSSI values from the beacons to determine the distance between the blind user node and predefined reference nodes. These distances are passed to a localization algorithm to provide the location of the user. location and desired destination are then passed to a shortest path algorithm. The path will be translated into voice instructions to guide the user to their destination.

Team

Stephen Fialli

Steve is an Electrical Engineering major. He worked on the indoor beacon deployment, indoor beacon characterization, outdoor beacon deployment, and outdoor beacon characterization.

Thomas Kelly

Tom is an Electrical Engineering major. He worked on the indoor beacon deployment, indoor beacon characterization, outdoor beacon deployment, and outdoor beacon characterization.

Krista Lohr

Krista is a Computer Systems Engineering major. She worked on the outdoor navigation algorithm, the outdoor voice instructions, the outdoor map, and the application main menu.

Divya Reddy

Divya is a Computer Systems Engineering major. She worked on the indoor navigation algorithm, the indoor voice instructions, the indoor map, and the application accessibility.

Files

PDR Slides

  • Team8_PDR_Slides
  • MDR Slides

  • Team8_MDR_Slides
  • MDR Report

  • Team8_MDR_Report
  • CDR Slides

  • Team8 CDR Slides
  • FPR Slides

  • Team8 FPR Slides
  • Demo Day Poster

  • Team 8 Poster
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