walker with GPS

February 29th, 2008 | Category: GPS

Dutch inventors from Arnhem-Nijmegen University designed that indoor navigation system for those elderly public in nursing centers who seem to get lost a lot.

Instead of relying GPS signals which supply poor or no coverage indoors that system uses Wi-Fi to get a position fix. Keeping in mind the

computer skills of public by 55 that experimental navigator was only fitted 5 buttons. As far as user interface they used big icons for things such as ‘bathroom’ or ‘cup of coffee’ to help them navigate all through the building… (more…)

Original post by Tim Robbins

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