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This fall, blind passengers will be able to navigate these halls completely independently thanks to a new iPhone app.
Indoor Mapping Lets the Blind Navigate Airports
A prototype system of an iPhone app and location beacons launched at San Francisco International Airport
This summer, Bryan Bashin experienced Terminal 2 of the San Francisco International Airport (SFO), a hub he travels through with a fair bit of regularity, in an entirely new way. As he walked, he knew the location of every gate, newsstand, wine bar and iPhone charging station throughout the 640,000-square-foot terminal. “I noticed all these things that I didn’t even know were there,” he explains.
Bashin is blind. As Executive Director and CEO of LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, an organization that aims to make San Francisco more accessible, he had early access to a prototype indoor mapping system developed and deployed in collaboration with the mayor’s office and the Austrian company Indoo.rs.
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