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A Development Model of an Embedded System for Improving the Mobility of People with Physical Disabilities

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Worldwide there is a high amount of people with disabilities. For instance, according to the National Council for the Equalization of People with Disabilities, there are approximately 418,001 people with disabilities in Ecuador. On the other hand, nowadays there are a lot of electronic devices that allow people to perform everyday activities in a fast and easy way. Considering these premises, the automated control of electronic devices through mobile devices has emerged as a new challenge, whose main goal is to improve the quality of life of people. In this work, we present HomeR, a system that allows people, including people with disabilities, to manage smart home appliances through a mobile application. This system uses the Arduino and Raspberry Pi technologies to provide a low-cost solution that can be used by people independently of their status and abilities. HomeR was evaluated in terms of its implementation cost and accessibility. The results show that HomeR can be implemented in real environments with a low investment compared to already available solutions in Ecuador.

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Special thanks are given to the SERLI (Ecuadorian Society Pro-Rehabilitation of Crippled), which has allowed authors to conduct tests at its facilities.

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  1. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Escuela de Ingeniería en Computación e Informática, Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Avenue 25 de Julio y Pio Jaramillo, P.O. Box 09-04-100, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Maritza Aguirre-Munizaga, Vanessa Vergara-Lozano, Carlota Delgado-Vera, Jorge Hidalgo & Rosa González-Villalta

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  1. Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

    Rafael Valencia-García

  2. Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Katty Lagos-Ortiz

  3. Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Gema Alcaraz-Mármol

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    Javier Del Cioppo

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Aguirre-Munizaga, M., Vergara-Lozano, V., Delgado-Vera, C., Hidalgo, J., González-Villalta, R. (2017). A Development Model of an Embedded System for Improving the Mobility of People with Physical Disabilities. In: Valencia-García, R., Lagos-Ortiz, K., Alcaraz-Mármol, G., Del Cioppo, J., Vera-Lucio, N., Bucaram-Leverone, M. (eds) Technologies and Innovation. CITI 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 749. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67283-0_11

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