Two graduates from Brandon’s Assiniboine Community College have developed a system to help the visually impaired navigate inside large buildings, including schools.
Fadi Al Sai and Jairo Mosquera, who recently graduated from the Manitoba college’s communications engineering technology program, created the system as part of a school project. It uses wireless beacons and microprocessors to pinpoint a user’s location and give exact directions, down to the metre, to where a user wishes to go.