Modern satellite navigation provide acceptable accuracy for consumers to determine its coordinates on the open space, but indoors they are almost useless. Some of the solutions for indoor navigation are ready to help airlines passengers.
Following the example of the UK's Heathrow Airport, Airport Authority of San Francisco in one of the terminals, with the support of Indoo.rs introduces into trial operation navigation system for passengers, operating on signals from a network of Bluetooth-three hundred lighthouses scattered around the room. Solution focused mainly on passengers with visual impairments that can move through the terminal with voice prompts generated by smartphones with installed core application.
Each lighthouse sized tube from a plastic bottle is powered by the internal power supply - According to the manufacturer, one battery lasts for four years of continuous operation. In the future, the navigation system can be used and sighted passengers for some hints. Upon successful completion of the test system will be implemented in the rest of the airport terminals in San Francisco. The current version of the application works with devices running iOS, but soon they will be able to take
advantage and the owners of devices with Android. Public new version of the application will be available this autumn.
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