Shopping and tourism for blind people using RFID as an application of IoT

This research aims to provide a service for blind people, based on that assumption visually impaired people would prefer to shop independently, without assistance from others. For this to happen, when a blind person walks in a mall, he or she would need to know the shops in the surrounding area and what these shops offer. The proposed software, based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, aims to assist blind people in shopping, by indicating their position, providing them with useful information about each nearby store, and guiding them to reach their desired destinations. The software can also offer a notification service depending on the current time, the estimated required shopping time and the closing time of a particular store, to notify the user sufficiently in advance to make their desired purchases. A high percentage of success in that software been achieved and produced through this research.