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Follow on Google News | European Space Agency Awards Wearable Computing Company SensovoSensovo, a young startup from Germany won the European Space Agency (ESA) Innovation Prize 2013 in the European Satellite Navigation Competition with the project which introduces a vibrating belt for the navigation purposes.
By: Sensovo Many people can benefit from this innovative way of navigation, such as tourists, emergency services, cyclists, motorcyclists, and the visually impaired. ‘The range of applications that can be implemented with tactile navigation is limited by imagination only’, says head of communication at Sensovo, Manuel Salvador. The young startup plans to enter the market by optimizing their system for the geocacher communitiy (www.geocaching.com) The product that Sensovo developed is a technical intersection of geolocation (GNSS), navigation, wearable technologies, tactile or haptic feedback, and ubiquitous computing, It can be used for navigation without distracting audio-visual senses. A mobile phone application allows defining landmarks or sightseeing points which are sent via Bluetooth to the navigation belt. The device then uses vibration motors to indicate the direction of the preset target destinations. Those vibration motors, similar to the ones in a mobile phone, are built into a belt that can be comfortably worn around the waist under normal clothes and invisible from the outside. For more information about tactile navigation please visit: www.sensovo.com Email: jan.walter.schroeder@ Web: www.sensovo.com End
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