A digital health company that enlists Google Glass to provide navigation assistance to the visually impaired is expanding to non-U.S. markets in Canada, Australia, and the UK. The moves come a little more than one year after Aira began working with AT&T to scale its technology offering through the telecommunication company’s wireless network.
Aira developed a dashboard that connects Google Glass sp that trained navigation agents can gain the visual perspective of smartglass users. The dashboard provides live data streams from cameras, GPS, and other sensor systems. Navigators provide audio instructions to guide them to their destination. Airports have widely adopted the technology in the U.S. to help visually impaired individuals navigate these busy, sprawling places.
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In addition to airports, the company’s technology has been used to help individuals navigate college campuses, such as OSU and UCLA, train stations, and city centers.
The business offers monthly plans to individuals that give them access to navigation agents for varying amounts of time between 7 am to 1 am, along with smart glasses and a training session.
Aira was also the first companies to come out of the AT&T Foundry for Connected Health, which officially opened in June 2016.
Aira’s success with Google Glass is particularly interesting because its application for the visually impaired fills a niche between the consumer market, where the technology proved underwhelming, and business sectors that are well-served by it.
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