Developing the world's most accurate and inclusive personal navigation app

Waymap的愿景是开发世界上最准确和最具包容性的个人导航手机应用程序。Waymap诞生于皇家盲人儿童协会的要求。通过几个焦点小组，这家总部位于伦敦的慈善机构将独立的城市导航确定为视障儿童的关键问题，并委托Waymap开发一种高科技解决方案，使他们能够像没有残疾一样在城市中导航。因此，Waymap开发了世界领先的核心技术和手机应用程序，可以定位和导航用户，精度高达1米和10度航向。所有这些都是在没有物理基础设施和外部信号的情况下完成的，这意味着导航应用程序可以在室内和室外工作。这就是Waymap的主张真正具有创新性的原因--市场上没有其他个人导航应用程序能够充分解决室内的问题，这是个人导航的一个重要机会。而不是一个导航应用程序路由你只是一个火车站，想象一下，它路由你通过建筑物，地下到你的平台，上你的火车，下车，一直到你的目的地。Waymap相信我们可以将这些真正的端到端旅程变为现实。Innovate UK提供的资金将使我们能够扩展核心定位算法的功能，称为TRACE，以确保它在手机以普通通勤者携带手机的所有方式进行时有效运行。此外，这笔资金将使Waymap能够将我们的应用程序开发到一个水平，使应用程序中包含的功能适合市场使用，并与目前市场上其他个人导航应用程序所期望和提供的功能相当。这包括诸如实时运输数据馈送集成（例如，公共汽车、火车和轮渡路线和时间），替代交通方式的整合（例如，租赁自行车、汽车共享服务和电动踏板车）、第三方乘车服务的集成、频繁访问位置的识别和保存以及旅行定价。

Waymap's vision is to develop the world's most accurate and inclusive personal navigation cell phone app. Waymap was born out of requirements identified by the Royal Society for Blind Children. Through several focus groups, this London-based charity identified independent city navigation as a key issue for visually impaired children and tasked Waymap to develop a high-tech solution that would allow them to navigate cities as if they had no disability. As a result of this Waymap has developed world-leading core technology and a cell phone app that locates and navigates users to an accuracy of up to 1m and 10 degrees heading. All of this is done with no physical infrastructure and no external signal required, meaning that the navigation app can work both indoors and outdoors. This is what makes Waymap's proposition truly innovative -- no other personal navigation app on the market has adequately addressed the great indoors, which represents a major opportunity for personal navigation. Rather than a navigation app routing you just to a train station, imagine that it routed you through the building, underground to your platform, on to your train, off your train and all the way to your destination. These are the truly end-to-end journeys that Waymap believe we can make a reality.The funding provided by Innovate UK will allow us to extend the functionality of our core location algorithm, known as TRACE, to ensure that it operates effectively while the cell phone is carried in all the manners that a usual commuter would carry their cell phone in.In addition, this funding will allow Waymap to develop our app to a level whereby the features included in the app are fit for market use and equivalent to those that are expected and offered by the other personal navigation apps that are currently on the market. This includes features such as live transport data feed integration (e.g., bus, train and ferry routes and timings), integration of alternative transport methods (e.g., for-hire bicycles, car-sharing services, and electric scooters), integration of 3rd party ride-hailing services, recognition and saving of frequently visited locations and trip pricing.