| Abstract |
This study is focused on the problems and development opportunities of two topics: the concept of Smart City, and solutions that help blind people in their everyday life. The study analyses the existing solutions aiming to help visually impaired people. The result of the analysis shows that many of the functions are repeated in the applications and there are no applications that would provide a comprehensive solution for blind people's everyday life problems. The author proposes a new direction for development in some points for both Smart Cities and solutions assisting blind people. A proposed organization, the Fund for the Development of Smart Cities (FDSC) - that may help to ensure the financial background of the R&D, and also could set a centralized direction for development worldwide -, the usage of Open data and Open software development concepts, the technology of artificial Intelligence (AI), and autonomous cars. © 2018 The Authors. |
