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To use the public bus system safely, effectively, and autonomously, these people need to collect information about their physical environment and visible information at stops and terminals, such as timetables, routes, etc. Unfortunately, most people who are blind or visually impaired experience difficulties in getting on the right bus or getting off at the right destination. These situations usually force them to depend on other people that assist them in activities close to their homes, or settle for simpler jobs, or simply stay at home. Therefore, our efforts should aim to develop a system where technology is used to empower people with visual disabilities, allowing them to navigate autonomously in the public transport system. This paper presents a system based on radio frequency (RF) communication proposed within the framework of the MOVIDIS (Mobility for Visually Disabled People) research project (funded by the National Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation-SENACYT, under Grants No. 109-2015-4-FID14-073 and No. 99-2018-4-FID17-031), which provides an alternative to assist people with visual disabilities with their mobility in the public transport system. The various modules of this system communicate with each other by means of radio frequency and allow users to interact with buses and their respective stops. The first experimental results show that RF communication represents a viable option to help people with visual disabilities in public transport services.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19061282","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,15]],"date-time":"2019-03-15T04:12:09Z","timestamp":1552623129000},"page":"1282","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":26,"title":["Assisting Visually Impaired People in the Public Transport System through RF-Communication and Embedded Systems \u2020"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0823-2490","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yessica","family":"S\u00e1ez","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Universidad Tecnol\u00f3gica de Panam\u00e1, El Dorado, Panama City 0819-07289, Panama"},{"name":"Centro de Estudios Multidisciplinarios en Ciencias, Ingenier\u00eda y Tecnolog\u00eda-AIP (CEMCIT-AIP), Panama City 0819, Panama"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jos\u00e9","family":"Mu\u00f1oz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Universidad Tecnol\u00f3gica de Panam\u00e1, El Dorado, Panama City 0819-07289, Panama"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Francisco","family":"Canto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Universidad Tecnol\u00f3gica de Panam\u00e1, El Dorado, Panama City 0819-07289, Panama"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Antony","family":"Garc\u00eda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Universidad Tecnol\u00f3gica de Panam\u00e1, El Dorado, Panama City 0819-07289, Panama"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8638-9966","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"H\u00e9ctor","family":"Montes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Universidad Tecnol\u00f3gica de Panam\u00e1, El Dorado, Panama City 0819-07289, Panama"},{"name":"Centro de Estudios Multidisciplinarios en Ciencias, Ingenier\u00eda y Tecnolog\u00eda-AIP (CEMCIT-AIP), Panama City 0819, Panama"},{"name":"Centre for Automation and Robotics CSIC-UPM, 28500 Madrid, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"WHO (2018, October 16). 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