A unexampled smartphone app and Bluetooth beacon system is currently being trialled at Pimlico Station on the London Underground , and could revolutionise the room blind and part sighted people navigate the UK capital ’s Tube system .
Born from the Royal London Society for Blind People ’s Youth Forum , the Wayfindr organisation offers independence to those that would otherwise need assistance to get around the public transferral hub .
It fix role of signals transmitted by Bluetooth pharos , which are then picked up by a smartphone and cross referenced with ustwo ’s indoor positioning instructions . pair with a solidification of off-white conductivity earphones , the user can then be eat navigation and focusing instructions , without overleap out on the vital ambient sound at the station .
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