Project Details


AI Repository Project

WSIS Prizes Contest 2019 Nominee

Improved accessibility in buildings through indoor WiFi positioning


Description

The main idea is having an application that knows where a smart phone is in a building, thereafter to be able to provide greater accessibility to indoor spaces for people with low or no vision. Depending on the position of the device, information related to the specific use of the application is displayed. More specifically auditory information to improve the experience of people with low or no vision. This could be information of a route or information on different points of the premises as the device approaches them.

For this an indoor location system based on WiFi was built in order to provide the capabilities to make this possible, in conjunction with a smart phone application that allows users to improve the building experience.

The user will be able to make interactive tours, cultural tours, even the visit of stores in a way that allows better accessibility taking into account the disabilities that this present.

Project website

https://github.com/agusnavce/MNAVigator


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C2. Information and communication infrastructure 2019
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

Coverage
  • Uruguay

Status

Ongoing

Start date

February 2018

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • People with disabilities
  • Older people

Replicability

Because it's a software and it doesn't depend of a specific building, it can be built for any existing building. And it easily applicable in any environment.


Sustainability

This project only depends on software and not any infrastructure or materials, and that's why it's sustainable.


WSIS values promotion

This project takes the values of tolerance, equity, solidarity and puts them as the main component to keep in mind those people who have the disability of not having vision. It carries these principles into every stage of development in order to promote universal access to common spaces where disabled people generally do not have access.


Entity name

Facultad de Ingenieria (Fing)

Entity country—type

Uruguay Academia

Entity website

https://iie.fing.edu.uy/