Researchers at Finland's
VTT
organisation have created a system to help visually impaired people find out
about the products on offer in a shop.
The Seeingeyephone project is aimed at customers who are unable to read
product information in retail environments.
The system uses an RFID reader and tag emulation technology to allow handheld
devices, such as mobile phones, to gather information from tagged objects.
Seeingeyephone uses an embedded Near Field Communication (NFC) chip along
with a Topaz tag made by British company
Innovision.
The tag contains an ID and address with product-specific data, such as price,
use-by date and nutritional values, and is attached to the shelf next to each
product.
When the customer holds the Seeingeyephone unit up to the tag, the
information is retrieved and the phone's text-to-speech synthesiser feeds the
information directly to the user in their chosen language.
The invention won 'Most Innovative NFC Proposal of the Year 2007' at the
first European
NFC
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