San Francisco has taken IoT to a new level of track and trace in the fact they have enabled the blind to track where they want to go with their mobile apps.
If you're a rider of San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART), you may be relying on a new technology produced by LightHouse for the Blind and developed by The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute and Joshua Miele. The audio navigation technology is called CHECK, and is currently being tested on the BART.
Listening to the takeaway I heard Bryan Bashin, CEO of the San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind, explain that the technology needed for systems like CHECK to work are already in place in a number of areas, but they're not targeting themselves to the blind. In addition to the CHECK system, used by BART, Apple has been leading the charge to provide proximity information for retailers with iBeacon.
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