Austrian company Tec-Innovation recently disclosed
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Austrian company Tec-Innovation recently disclosed smart shoes that use sensors to help people suffering from blindness or vision damage to detect obstacles up to four meters away.
Known as InnoMake, the smart shoe may become a possible alternative to the decades-old walking stick that millions of people depend on to get around as safely as possible. The currently available model relies on sensors to detect obstacles and warns the wearer via vibration and an alert sounded on a Bluetooth-linked smartphone. “Sensors on the toe of the shoe detect obstacles up to four meters away. The wearer is then warned by vibration and/or acoustic(听觉的)signals. This works very well and is already a great help to me personally,” Markus Raffer, one of the founders of Tec-Innovation, himself visually damaged, said.
That sounds impressive enough, but the company is already working on a much more advanced version that combines cameras and artificial intelligence to not only detect obstacles but also their nature. “Not only is the warning that I am facing an obstacle relevant, but also the information about what kind of obstacle I am facing. Because it makes a big difference whether it’s a wall, a car or a staircase,” Raffer claimed.
