Need Help with Finding Your Way Inside Buildings?
Use VipAssistant's Indoor Navigation Engine to navigate anywhere inside buildings! We will provide you the shortest path possible and guide you during the navigation.
We are VipAssistant. Our product provides software solutions for one of the biggest problems of visually impaired people (VIP) which is indoor navigation. We want our users to be able to go from any point A to any point B inside buildings as safely and quickly as possible. For this goal we developed a smart Indoor Navigation Assistant that is powered by Bluetooth Low Energy and specialized for visually impaired people.
An Adaptive Mobile App that is
Specialized for Visually Impaired Users
An Extensive Digital World Map
that contains several Indoor Maps in 3D
An Indoor Navigation Engine that is
powered by Bluetooth Low Energy Technology
Server Support for introducing advanced
features into plaftorm such as building heatmaps
We offer an android mobile application that is designed for both visually impaired users and non-visually impaired users.
Separation of the UI is requested once in the application-startup, then set in our application accordingly. Our application provides Voice Interaction for the Visually Impaired UI and Visual Interaction for Non-Visually Impaired UI.
For the Visually Impaired mode, we provide our visually impaired users a simple UI to interact with the application (which is clicking anywhere on the screen to give any command) and we manage all interactions in this mode through a special 'Command-Directive' chain. For the interactions, we provide our users a list of commands, that are equivalent to the ones that is available in Non-Visually Impaired Mode, to interact with our application.
For the Non-Visually Impaired mode, we provide all the features specified in our "Features" section below in special modules named as "Navigate", "Heatmap" and "Monitor".
We offer an extensive digital world map in 3D that contains lots of indoor maps (including our great custom indoor map) in itself. For our demo, we've designed and developed our Department's A Block Indoor Map by using WRLD3D's Map and Indoor Map Designer tools with the collaboration of QGIS tool. Our custom 3D world map is designed according to this Indoor Mapscene that we've created from scratch.
This digital 3D map is hosted by but we provide a caching mechanism inside our application. Thanks to that, our users download the map once and then uses the cached version.
You can visit our 3D World Map from here and roam around the walls of our Department's A Block that is created by us from scratch!
We offer a custom Indoor Navigation Engine that is powered by Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and can compute locations (indoor), calculate directions, generate paths and navigate users to their destination points in real time.
Navigation Engine's realtime location calculation functionality has been implemented using Multilateration algorithm using the Bluetooth Low Energy signals gathered from multiple beacons, which are also pre-filtered using Kalman Filters in order to smooth the calculated location result, periodically.
Navigation Engine's path generation and shortest path computation functionalities across the map are developed using this fork of Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) a high performance routing engine designed for use with OpenStreetMap data.
We are grateful to the OSRM project, all of its developers and WRLD3D's fork for making all these available.
We offer a dedicated server support for the users of our system due to a number of reasons:
Use VipAssistant's Indoor Navigation Engine to navigate anywhere inside buildings! We will provide you the shortest path possible and guide you during the navigation.
We will still be able to locate you inside buildings as our Indoor Navigation Engine uses BLE signals to detect your location. You are all set for a safe indoor journey once you turn your Bluetooth on.
VipAssistant will not suffer your phone more as our Indoor Localization Infrastructure is powered by BLE Technology. You can use VipAssistant for hours without even needing to charge your phone!
Search locations by their name or their type (such as Restroom) and request directions for them. In addition, you can request live surrounding reports at anytime!
We provide a special mode for our Visually Impaired Users that contains assistive commands such as "Find Me an 'X' location", "What is the weather like today?" and many more!
Pin locations, then save/bookmark your favourite places (or places of interest) and share them with your friends!
Activate this special mode to let VipAssistant help you create a safe and pandemic-free radius around you. We will notify you whenever your social distancing radius gets violated.
Display real-time population intensity of the buildings with amazing heatmaps and potentially help your social distancing by keeping yourself away from the locations that are intense.
Only download pieces of the map that you visit for the first time and let VipAssistant cache those pieces with the ones that you're probably going to visit next.
Monitor the state of the application as well as its state of infrastructure inside the building you are in. Let us know whenever you observe abnormalities.
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