[Ag-barrierefreiheit] Navigation für Personen mit Behinderungen

[Olaf Mittelstaedt <othermatters AT sunrise.ch>]

Falls ihr eine mobile Lösung such, die gibt es schon: ein PDA das auf RFID reagiert. Hier ein Exzerpt aus dem Jahre 2008 (inzwischen funktioniert das auch im Gebäude Inneren, man muss halt nur ein paar RFIDs rumkleben....):

....Current State of Research

Personal guidance, especially for those with disabilities, is based on the ability to localize the person. The ability to localize people inside buildings is particularly critical here.

The first mobile travel information systems are already on the market, several others are being developed or planned, and many more are at the research stage. Most of them are based on person localization via GPS. However, there is still no solution that offers an in-house localization system for persons that is accurate enough and suitable for everyday use.

PAVIP⃝R [1] is a personal assistant for Visually Impaired People developed by Bones GmbH, Neuhausen in Switzerland. It was tested 2004 in Berne in the world’s first field trial of a guidance system for people with visually disabilities in public areas. In 2007 a pilot system for the public transport in the town of St. Gall has been set up. PAVIP⃝R is based on a specialized device and PAVIP⃝R markers (RFID transponders) that are installed at public transport stops. If the user holds his device up to one of these transponders, the device reads out the bus lines that pass this stop so that the user can then select the right one. The device will then only react to the radio signals from buses of the relevant lines. The device can also open doors and transmit stop requests while the passenger is on board the vehicle.... 

Gruß

Olaf