Developed with you, for you! Let's make a difference and design the app together! We are currently looking for co-creators who would like to give us valuable feedback.
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We have been awarded the German Mobility Prize 2024. We were finalists in the Health-i Award from Techniker Krankenkasse and Handelsblatt in 2024.
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SmartAIs - Understanding, finding, arriving. Wherever you are!
Outdoors
Destination in sight, GPS inaccurate? We'll take care of the last few meters, whether it's to your front door, house number, bus stop or bus, store entrance, or subway/train station entrance. Wherever you want to go. As long as it's within sight of your smartphone.
Indoors
Whether at home or in public places, we guide you to the train tracks, read out information on display boards, guide you to stairs, room numbers, or a product in the supermarket. As long as it is within sight of your smartphone.
How does SmartAIs App work
Use the SmartAIs app in the way that suits you: hands-free in the chest bag or with the phone in your hand.
Smartphone
The camera sees what’s in front of you.
Chest bag
Hands-free on the go, your phone stays stable and within easy reach.
Bone-conduction headphones
You hear the guidance while still hearing your surroundings.
Features: Understanding, Finding, Arriving
Spatial
scene description
You get a description of your surroundings and answers to questions, e.g., about objects, text, or people.
Find: Where is something?
Ask about any points of interest in your surroundings, SmartAIs tells you where it is and how you can align yourself.
Guide me!
last-meter navigation
SmartAIs guides you to your destination: in hand mode via vibration, hands-free with a chest bag via tones through bone-conduction headphones.
SmartAIs App in action
Experience in the video how SmartAIs supports blind and visually impaired people with spatial environment descriptions and by helping them find points of orientation (e.g., the entrance to a pharmacy).
Karl-Matthias Schäfer, Chair of the BSBH e. V. and personally affected.
“I found the doorbell at the hotel entrance! I also managed to locate a trash bin precisely at Frankfurt Central Station. Before, I always had trouble hitting it accurately, even when I roughly knew where it was. With SmartAIs’ detection and guidance, I was able to dispose of my trash with confidence.”
Gerhard R. personally affected
“At Hanover central station, SmartAIs guided me with pinpoint accuracy to the door of an arriving train. It worked excellently!”
What our users say
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Let's partner up
Rethinking orientation together​
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We believe that good partnerships create accessibility for everyone. SmartAIs develops technologies that describe environments in a context-sensitive way for blind and visually impaired people — for greater participation and inclusion.
Let's talk if you want to make your cultural, care, public, or mobility facility more accessible to blind and visually impaired people.
We are actively looking for partners.​