It is an indescribable feeling of freedom to be able to run by myself as a blind person, something I have longed for all my life!
Ida Östlund
Would you like to try out digital guidance in a specific activity or maybe try out a whole set of activities for a few days? We organise one-day events and multi-day camps where visually impaired people can try our system in the activity of choice. Kayaking, hiking in the mountains, skating on a lake or cross-country skiing/alpine skiing in the north, it’s up to you!
Over the past year we have been invited to various events in Sweden where we have demonstrated our system to the visually impaired. Now we offer you to book us for events in more natural settings, where we can arrange activities to suit your needs!
Welcome to cross-country skiing in classic style and you can choose to ski between 1 and 5 laps on a 1.5 km course. You can borrow one of our digital guides and you will also have an guide throughout the race for added safety. If you want to come the day before and test the course, we can help with accommodation at the ski stadium and transport (e.g. from Norrköping station). Read more at Kimstad GoIF.
Here you have the opportunity to take part in an athletics competition with digital guidance. You can choose to run 100 and/or 3000 meters on a 400 meters outdoor arena. You don’t have to worry about collisions, as there is also the option of a guide to accompany you for extra security. Accommodation and local transport can be arranged. Read more at Linköping Friidrott and contact Frida at LGIF if you have any questions, phone 0702 290 054.
Radiosporten (junior) – Sveriges Radio visited us in Linköping and tested our digital guide system. A 100 meter track with start- and finished signal was prepared. In this reportage you follow Loke (8 year & blind) together with LGIF
While following a pre-recorded digital path, you hear infrequent signals in both ears. If you stray off the path, the side facing the center turns silent, while the signal gets increasingly frequent in the ear furthest away from center. This makes it easy to keep in the center while moving along a digital path.
A digital guide system that enables people with impaired vision to enjoy sports and everyday trips without being accompanied by a guide. Popular activities are for example running, cross-country skiing, alpine skiing, long jump, skating, kayaking and hiking. The digital guide is also convenient in your everyday life, for walking to school, the grocery store, the gym etc. without a companion.
Wireless earphones and the Nordic Evolution guidance module which is 14 cm high, weighs about 100 grams and is worn with a custom headband. The system requires a WIFI-network which can be generated by a smartphone.
First you create the digital path you would like to follow, or you use the user-generated paths in our database. You can record a path by moving the module over the ground, but you can also design the path on a map in our computer interface.
Then you design the type of audio signals that you would like as a guide along the path. Besides GPS navigation you can set distance marks, information about slopes or other places of interest, it’s up to you!
The compact Nordic Evolution guidance module includes a high-precision GPS that connects to several satellite systems and with a unique series of sensors, the system offers an average position accuracy of 10 cm in the majority of Sweden. In optimal environments, the system can reach an accuracy of 1 cm. This precision, combined with a sophisticated and intuitive computer interface, enables users to easily create and follow their own paths, as well as sharing them with other users. As of today, the Nordic Evolution guidance system is solely adapted to the local network conditions in Sweden, so please contact us for use in other countries.
Do you want to make your sports club available for visually impaired athletes? Enable them to run, jump etc. on their own without the need of available companions? We want as many people as possible to benefit from our digital guides and sharing a system is a great way to increase accessibility.
We always deliver our systems with training but we also offer to set up the paths you want around your sporting grounds. For athletics, this could for example be a digital path for the long jump, the 100 meter sprint and along a lap around the arena, that also could be used for warm ups before other sports. In this way, your visually impaired athletes could enjoy some of the exercises without being dependent on a companion.
Contact us to discuss how we can supply a digital guide with custom paths to the visually impaired athletes in your sports club.
Our digital guidance system is used for cross-country skiing at Kimstad GoIF Skidcenter
Our digital guidance system is used for running at Råslätts IP
