IoT architecture proposal for disabled people

Abstract

We are living in a new communication age, which will radically transform the way we live in our society. A world where anything will be connected to Internet is being created, generating an entirely new dynamic network - The Internet of Things (IoT) - enabling new means of communication between people, things and environment. A suitable architecture for Internet of Things (IoT) demands the implementation of several and distinct technologies that range from computing (e.g. Cloud Computing), communications (e.g. 6LowPAN, 3/4G) to semantic (e.g. data mining). Thus, it is necessary to understand very well all these technologies in order to know which of them is most suitable for a given scenario. Therefore, this paper proposes an IoT architecture for disabled people and intends to identify and describe the most relevant IoT technologies and international standards for the stack of the proposed architecture. In particular, the paper discusses the enabling IoT technologies and its feasibility for people with disabilities. At the end, it presents two use cases that are currently being deployed for this population.