The ELCANO project undertaken by the University of Castile-La Mancha consists in designing and developing an infrastructure to assist the mobility of disabled people in large indoor spaces (e.g. office buildings, airports, stations, etc.). The objective of the system is to guide users so that they can optimize and reduce the movements required to navigate large areas.
The system is divided into three parts (see figure):
- Information about the environment: Contains all the environment details and other useful information to facilitate the mobility of disabled people.
- Multimodal positioning: Comprises different positioning technologies, (RFID, sensor networks, WiFi cells, etc.) to obtain a common GIS (Geographical Information System).
- Personal navigation device: Interprets the information gathered about the environment and adapts it to the user's disability (e.g.: audio for the blind, visual for people with hearing loss, maps that highlight the architectural barriers for people with a physical disability, etc.).
Project developed by the University of Castile-La Mancha
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