ORIENTOMA: A novel platform for autonomous and safe navigation for blind and visually impaired

This work addresses the challenge behind the Orientoma project. Final aim of this project is to design and develop an effective, reliable and low-cost navigation system for blind and visually impaired people. The basic principle is to create a wearable system that acquires information from the context in which the user is, leveraging on modern smartphones and others smart devices and transmitting such information in a way that is understandable for the blind. Achieving this goal would be a significant improvement in the state of the art and would allow a better integration of the blind in active society. In this work we present the first outcomes of the project as well as the first prototype that has been implemented.