COMPAGNO – the personalized companion
The COMPAGNO research project was developed as part of the “Mobile into old age – seamless mobility chains for removing, circumventing and overcoming barriers” funding measure from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). COMPAGNO is a mobility support service (MuD) that primarily serves as a navigation aid for people with limited mobility in the form of a mobile application.
The special feature of the app is that users can specify their individual handicaps and have the routing displayed accordingly. For example, it is possible to avoid stairs and choose wheelchair-accessible routes. If data is available, local public transport connections can also be taken into account and included in the routing. The user therefore specifies a starting point and a destination and is navigated to the destination via the safest route based on their individual restrictions and options – based on the OpenStreetMap geoinformation system.
Special features of the app include an additional “out-of-home emergency call function” with the option of localization and a weather forecast. In this way, COMPAGNO aims to give people with limited mobility the opportunity to participate in social life.
The project is one of fourteen joint projects in the funding priority AAL (age-appropriate assistance systems for a self-determined life) – seamless mobility. The aim of all projects is to create MuDs that assist people with their mobility into old age.
The COMPAGNO project came to an end in June 2015 with the submission of the final report to the project sponsor.
COMPAGNO at a glance:
Initiator: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Project duration: three years, start: spring 2012
Project partners:
TUP GmbH & Co. KG
Development and implementation of the mobility assistant
Caritasverband Singen-Hegau e.V.
Project coordinator, conception, development and introduction of the mobility support service, exemplary testing
netzfactor GmbH
Development and implementation of the personalized companion
minos GmbH
Development, operation and service for NFC technology based on RFID components
Institute for Automation and Quality Assurance e.V. (iAQ)
Collection of barrier data, creation of the personalized profile
Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE)
Social and transportation science surveys, collaboration on the urban planning inventory
You can find more information on this topic at“Compagno: individual navigation with a future perspective”
Image source: © COMPAGNO