Fusion: Practice and Applications FPA 2692-4048 2770-0070 10.54216/FPA https://www.americaspg.com/journals/show/4142 2018 2018 Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia Lama Lama Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia Soukeina Elhassen Sign language is a vital communication mean for hearing-impaired individuals, combining manual gestures with non-manual signs like facial expressions and body movements, often requiring both hands and sequential actions. Recently, an automatic Sign Language Recognition (SLR) has gained increasing attention, with Machine Learning and Deep Learning systems achieving competitive performance. While convolutional neural network has been widely employed owing to their effectiveness in image-based recognition tasks, existing methods, however, often struggle with efficiency, adaptability, and real-time deployment. This paper proposes an Internet of Things-Integrated Deep Learning Model for Real-Time SLR to enhance the communication among individuals with hearing-impairment and non-signers. The framework employs IoT-based wearable sensors for capturing hand and finger movements, followed by Sobel filtering for noise reduction. MobileNetV3 is applied for lightweight feature extraction, while a Variational AutoEncoder enables robust sign detection. To further improve performance, an Improved Sparrow Search Algorithm is introduced for hyperparameter tuning, constituting the novelty of this work. Experimental results show that the proposed framework achieves an outstanding accuracy of 99.05% when compared to state-of-the-art systems, validating its robustness and effectiveness for real-time SLR applications. Future work will explore large-scale deployment and multi-language adaptability. 2026 2026 396 412 10.54216/FPA.210225 https://www.americaspg.com/articleinfo/3/show/4142