PHONE APP CAN GUIDE USER AROUND BUILDINGS
Published: Feb. 14, 2012 at 6:17 PM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. fourteen (UPI) — A smartphone app may shortly guide people through unknown buildings by resplendent aflame arrows on the belligerent prior to them to uncover the way, U.S. researchers say.
The Guiding Light app, grown at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, consists of a wearable badge with captivating sensors and program that makes use of a projector built into many Samsung smartphones to plan the arrows onto the ground.
The complement relies on a map of the office office office office building based on fluctuations in the captivating margin combined by the participation of steel in the walls, office office office building and ceiling, an MIT recover pronounced Tuesday.
The map is combined by on foot through a office office office office building wearing a pinned token that contains 4 captivating sensors, which record changes in the captivating margin at any indicate in the building.
The map is afterwards installed onto a phone. To navigate around the building, a user contingency wear a identical pinned token that “talks” to the map on the phone, confirming their position.
A specific place can be keyed in to the app and Guiding Light will invariably plan an arrow onto the office office office building forward to take the user to that location.
Similar indoor positioning systems regulating WiFi nodes or Bluetooth sensors embedded in walls require the user to glance at maps on their phones to see where they are headed, researcher Jaewoo Chung said.
Guiding Light does not, he said.
“We longed for people’s eyes to be on their environment,” Chung said.
Published: Feb. 14, 2012 at 6:17 PM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. fourteen (UPI) — A smartphone app may shortly guide people through unknown buildings by resplendent aflame arrows on the belligerent prior to them to uncover the way, U.S. researchers say.
The Guiding Light app, grown at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, consists of a wearable badge with captivating sensors and program that makes use of a projector built into many Samsung smartphones to plan the arrows onto the ground.
The complement relies on a map of the office office office office building based on fluctuations in the captivating margin combined by the participation of steel in the walls, office office office building and ceiling, an MIT recover pronounced Tuesday.
The map is combined by on foot through a office office office office building wearing a pinned token that contains 4 captivating sensors, which record changes in the captivating margin at any indicate in the building.
The map is afterwards installed onto a phone. To navigate around the building, a user contingency wear a identical pinned token that “talks” to the map on the phone, confirming their position.
A specific place can be keyed in to the app and Guiding Light will invariably plan an arrow onto the office office office building forward to take the user to that location.
Similar indoor positioning systems regulating WiFi nodes or Bluetooth sensors embedded in walls require the user to glance at maps on their phones to see where they are headed, researcher Jaewoo Chung said.
Guiding Light does not, he said.
“We longed for people’s eyes to be on their environment,” Chung said.