ViiO Travel Aid : A Great Navigation Tool for Visually Impaired People When Traveling
ViiO Travel Aid helps visually impaired people to travel independently with absolute confidence, just like general society. This tool aims to reduce the prevailing social gap between our society and visually impaired people. By incorporating the latest technologies into this tool, it acts as smart and innovative navigation locally and globally to find direction during traveling which is very crucial for visually impaired individual.
ViiO Travel Aid integrates both Viitect and Viirect technology to provide the ultimate navigation for its user. Viitect is a device that detects any hanging obstacles attached to a conventional white cane. In this way, user will be alarmed if there’s something at head level which is usually undetected by conventional cane. Viitect alerts the user by activating vibration function to the user’s thumb, a great feedback for a safe travel.
Viirect is voice-interactive GPS to provide information as well as receive audio directional feedback for optimum practicality. These two devices (Viitect and Viirect) are linked together via Bluetooth where the system converts any audio feedback to actuated pins which can be tactically felt by a user’s thumb when they hold Viitect.
Designer : Yonathan Halim