GeoMobile at Nav4Blind.
After a long break it’s getting time to post a couple of lines in my blog. In recent months there happened really much in the life of our startup initiative and my “student” career as well. Unfortunately, because of lack of time I could not report about all the events, but will try to summarize the most interesting of them in the next posts.
The most vivid event occured last Tuesday. GeoMobile has exibited its first project at the IT-fair, Nav4Blind, in the town of Soest dedicated to ideas and products supporting blind people in their every day life. We implemented a prototype of a navigation system, which guides a blind person in a safe corridor and provides the person with touristic informations. We realized this project in cooperation with the University of Münster, which supported us with the Ubisense location system. Ubisense is based on Ultra-Wide Band technology and provides an indoor location precision of about 50 cm. The current coordinates are saved 10 times per second at the server and our mobile application could request it via wlan.
Screenshot of the start window of our application:
Me at the beginning of the Testparcours:
Our first test person:
In general we’ve got a very positive feedback:
Nice article. There’s a lot of good information here, though I did want to let you know something – I am running Ubuntu with the current beta of Firefox, and the design of your blog is kind of bizarre for me. I can understand the articles, but the navigation doesn’t work so great.
author: Krugerrand Value | May 23rd, 2010 at 7:37 pmI just want to let you know, I actually like the writing on your site. But I am using Firefox on a machine running version 9.04 of Crashbang Ubuntu and the UI aren’t quite correct. Not a strong deal, I can still basically read the articles and search for information, but just wanted to inform you about that. The navigation bar is kind of challenging to apply with the config I’m running. Keep up the great work!
author: Silver for Sale | July 3rd, 2010 at 9:39 pmThanks for publishing about this. There’s a mass of solid tech info on the internet. You’ve got a lot of that info here on your web site. I’m impressed – I try to keep a couple blogs reasonably ongoing, but it’s a struggle sometimes. You’ve done a great job with this one. How do you do it?
author: Silver Coins | July 3rd, 2010 at 10:09 pm