Wayfinding, indoor navigation solution for visually impaired
Buyer: United Nations Procurement Division (globally)
Closing Date for Receipt of RFI: 15 November 2024
OBJECTIVE:
The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to provide the Office of Information and Communication
Technology (OICT) with information from the market to identify potential vendors that have the capability to
implement the goal of improving accessibility, particularly for persons with disabilities as well as to know its
implementation and maintenance budgetary cost with the aim of launching a formal solicitation in the near
future. The service provider shall facilitate the navigation of buildings on the UNHQ campus for staff and
visitors, and provide the individual with relevant information related to their route by implementing a readyto-
use beaconless indoor navigation solution with enough positional accuracy and voice turn-by-turn
navigation guidance for the visually impaired. The solution should provide enough positional accuracy for
indoor navigation by the visually impaired and should require no additional hardware or infrastucture (i.e.,
beacons) except the associated required application servers and the client devices.
SCOPE:
The way-finding system shall be able to accurately locate a person by locating her/his mobile phone and
provide non-visual guidance to a set of possible destinations including nearest bathroom (if the bathrooms
are separated by gender it shall navigate to the bathroom of the user’s choice), and to a specific conference
room or other specific location. The system shall also be able to help a person navigate a preset path such
as a path of a tour of the GA building that visitors take and should provide location-based information
appropriate to the person’s location, such as a pre-recorded audio describing an exhibit.
The solution must support the below technical requirements:
Mandatory requirements
- Solution works without hardware beacon and/or signal generating devices requirement except a client
mobile device - Solution provides mobile applications for both Apple iOS and Google/Android platforms
- Solution provided mobile applications must support respective platform’s native accessibility features such
as, Talkback for Google/Android and VoiceOver for Apple iOS - Solution provided mobile applications must be available to the respective app store of each platform
- Solution provided mobile applications must support latest operating system version along with at least two
previous major versions - Solution provides turn-by-turn audio guidance to users
Non-mandatory requirements - Solution provides positional accuracy be within 1 meter
- Solution provides an interface that UN can dynamically update indoor space information if needed
. Command line interface
. Graphic user interface
. Mobile app interface - Solution detects a user’s initial position automatically
. A user must input
. Automatically with some user input
. Automatically with no user input - Solution provides an indoor position SDK/library that can be used for other mobile applications
. Apple iOS
. Google/Android - List solution provides mobile applications with different graphic interfaces for different user groups
For example:
. A graphic interface for persons with visual impairment
. A graphic interface for persons with mobility impairment - Solution provides mobile applications that support all UN official languages: . Arabic . Chinese . English . French . Russian . Spanish
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