Post by Avtar on Jan 30, 2009 19:38:12 GMT
All right, so I thought this would add another angle and another aspect and just a completely new trend of discussions on here. Today in class we were being briefed on what kind of projects we can do for the final semester and stuff like that, and ideas were being thrown around. One interesting idea was, a talking walking stick. One that would inform a person where he is. Like, a blind person mainly. Get the drift? So a blind guy is walking around the college campus and a speaker or something in the walking stick tells him that he has entered such and such location.
How would you go about implementing the solution to this? The one flying around in class, was to have sensors located around all the buildings, and when the stick passed through those sensors, it would register with the stick and the stick would know where it is. This seems to be quite accepted. However, you'd have to place sensors all around the building and they'd have a certain height at which they can function, unless they're placed all around the ground. Again, expensive.
I thought that a good way to do this, would be to have the stick to communicate to a dish/transmitter or something in the center of the college, and the transmitter would respond to every request sent by the stick and tell it where it was. The entire college could be mapped in the way the globe is mapped, and on request of the stick, the transmitter can tell it where it is. Would probably work out cheaper than having sensors all over the college.
How would you do it? Flaw in any of the logic above?
GO GO GO.
How would you go about implementing the solution to this? The one flying around in class, was to have sensors located around all the buildings, and when the stick passed through those sensors, it would register with the stick and the stick would know where it is. This seems to be quite accepted. However, you'd have to place sensors all around the building and they'd have a certain height at which they can function, unless they're placed all around the ground. Again, expensive.
I thought that a good way to do this, would be to have the stick to communicate to a dish/transmitter or something in the center of the college, and the transmitter would respond to every request sent by the stick and tell it where it was. The entire college could be mapped in the way the globe is mapped, and on request of the stick, the transmitter can tell it where it is. Would probably work out cheaper than having sensors all over the college.
How would you do it? Flaw in any of the logic above?
GO GO GO.
