>> The following sub-sections show the achievements per project WP.
WP1 Management: Weekly progress meetings held to access, monitor and manage the project's advancement in order to ensure that budget and schedule controlled.
• Purpose: management of the project through regular meetings and action execution
• Achievements: Project achieved within extended schedule
• Deliverables:
o D1.1 Project plan
o D1.2 Final report
WP2 Specifications and architecture:
• Purpose :
o Define user/system/functional requirements and architecture
• Deliverables:
o D2.1 User requirements
o D2.2 Specifications and architecture
WP3 App development:
• Purpose: Development of navigation app for Smartphone
• Achievements:
o Implementation of human-machine interface (HMI)
o Feasibility checked for all functions and interfaces defined in the specifications
• Deliverables:
o D3.1 Software library for external location
o D3.2 Application Smartphone
WP4 Location algorithm
• Purpose: Development of reliable positioning algorithm using:
o Raw data from satellites (GPS, GALILEO, GLONASS)
o MEMS micro-electronic sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer)
o Indoor localization data
• Achievements:
o Reception and treatment of satellites raw data (GPS, GALILEO, GLONASS)
o Recuperation and treatment of sensors data
o Synchronization of satellite and sensor data
o Integration of algorithms for calculating GPS, GALILEO and GLONASS positions form raw data information
o Accurate position data is sent to the smartphone
• Deliverables:
o D4.1 Library of location data sets
o D4.2 Library of location data from field tests
WP5 User devices
• Purpose: Development of a Reliable Positioning Unit (RPU), responsible for calculating user’s position
• Achievements: Completed
o Design of RPU box completed and production of prototype in progress
o Hardware development completed and production of circuit printed board in progress
o Software completed
o The devices work as planned and communicate with the app on the smartphone
• Deliverables:
o D5.1 ANGEO-Pos terminals
o D5.2 ANGEO-Nav app for Smartphone
o D5.3 Navigation server
WP6 Demonstration trials
• Purpose: Factory validation and demonstration trials with visually impaired people
• Achievements: Completed
• Deliverables:
o D6.1 Definition of scenarios and demonstrations
o D6.2 Demonstration report and analysis
WP7 Business models and services
• Purpose: Definition of business model and distribution partners for further commercialisation of the product
• Achievements:
o Analysis of markets in France, Germany and UK
o Preparation of marketing information
o Definition of the business model
• Deliverables:
o D7.1 Business model and services
o D7.2 Draft distribution partner contracts
>> Results, communication and dissemination.
The most prestigious and influential institute for the blind in France was selected and performed the user trials: The Institut de la Vision, in Paris.
Their conclusions are be reproduced here as testimony of the project's results, communications and dissemination into the blind community:
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The user trials test saw 8 visually impaired persons using the ANGEO system: four participants for ANGEO-1 and four participants for ANGEO-S (also known as ANGEO-2). They each had a first session of discovery and getting to know the system, followed by a second session of more exploratory use. In each of these sessions, we were able to observe the usefulness of a guidance system to facilitate the movement of visually impaired people. All the participants were happy to evaluate the proposed position and, in the final questionnaire, 5 of them were satisfied (3 participants) or very satisfied (2 participants) of the system. Nevertheless, when they are asked to detail more specifically their pressure on the various points of the learning and use, efficiency, robustness, etc., the participants are more critical and consider that they themselves would only use a more optimised version of the system evaluated (bug correction). More particularly, for the ANGEO-1 version, the participants consider that the calibration and route search phases are too tedious and should therefore be shortened with regard to ANGEO-S, the robustness of the guidance was considered insufficient to give them confidence during their travels. To date, the product is not yet considered "turnkey". A list of recommendations has been proposed in order to solve the various difficulties observed during these evaluations.
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