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:
