To date 17 industrial responded to calls for tender

"Develop treatments able to cure diseases of the vision will take time, explains Emmanuel Gutman, responsible for industrial partnerships at the Institute of vision." However, he, says new technologies can now make considerable improvements to the visually impaired in their daily lives. Hence the idea of the Institute of the vision to encourage companies specialized in information technologies and sciences for the engineer to focus on the issues of the visually impaired.

In return, the l' institut Institute offers space for experimentation, and a label if the developed products are assessed positively by panels of visually impaired accompanied by psychologists, occupational therapists, orthoptists and clinicians.

Urban experimental zone

Very active support of the Institute of vision from the outset, the city of Paris is committed to his side project Panammes (development projects to improve the accessibility of the visually impaired, deaf and deaf), whose purpose was to install a zone of urban experimentation around the Institute. And the RATP, in the wake of the municipality, is also linked "that is ensured a continuity between the city and transport", in the words of the head of the project to the RATP, Betty Chappe. Subway station Ledru-Rollin who was chosen in preference to the Bastille station, too complex.

Mark Panammes, filed by the city of Paris and transferred to the Institute of vision, will come labéliser services and products distinguished. To date, 17 industrial responded to calls for tender. With the exception of JCDecaux, the project is to test a tactile interactive screens in bus shelters (information on the city and the transportation plan of the district), other companies such as OS, Easymove, Esium or Orange offer all in one form or another, and localization services remotely or via a mobile phone or a small terminal information, communicating with terminals located at strategic locations. Two of these technologies, developed by the companies Lumiplan and Phitec, have already been tested successfully and garden.

"But we want to go even further, explains Emmanuel Gutman, offering companies the more stringent conditions of tests scientifically." We are currently working with the city, region and State a financing plan for the construction on 120 metres square laboratory, named "streetlab", which would allow testing in a controlled environment urban lighting devices, GPS or signage. "It would be the equivalent, for the urban environment, HomeLab, apartment control for visually impaired just be completed on the premises of the Institute.

Improve the quality of life

With this apartment, the goal is again to test new developments, products or services likely to improve self-sufficiency, safety and the quality of life for the visually impaired, this time at their home. Icade (real estate), Descourt and Cabaud (industry) and Orange are already partners in the project. It is the company Hager (electrical equipment) who realized the Automation side. "Beyond the showcase appearance, this apartment we can validate systems adapted to the needs of the visually impaired, says Jérôme Lunati, responsible for the communication of Hager." Build a House is a heavy project. It must be the evolve over time, including if the aging comes with disabilities. But the extra cost is low if is expected as early as the design and we insist on the scalability of our systems.

In addition to home automation, the focus has been in the apartment on the ease of access and movement, the ergonomics of the furniture, the contrasts of colors and materials. It should help to define new standards taking into account the specific needs of the visually impaired with the industrial.