Today's ESA TV Exchange features a prototype satellite receiver that is accurate enough to guide a pedestrian through busy city streets.
The system is not just a GPS receiver with built-in maps but a navigation unit with a voice synthesizer developed to prove that satellite navigation could increase autonomy of blind citizens. Such system will not replace white canes or guide dogs but complement them with an ëaudible mapí.
Without Egnos, Europe;s own overlay for GPS, the system were impossible. Egnos provides the 1-metre accuracy and more importantly, the safety features that make the difference between being on the path or in the road.

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VNR : Mobile orientation for blind people

10:00:40 A common street scene in Madrid: but surprise, surprise, itís a blind man whoíll give the taxi driver the directions! This is a demonstration of a project developed by the European Space Agency. The blind person is guided by satellite and receives the directions in his earplug through a new generation mobile phone!
10:01:04 Ruben Dominguez ""It can be a good complement to a dog or a white cane. Itís a good way to know which street to take, how to go to certain places or do certain things without having to ask people in the street... and when we take a car or a taxi we can guide the driver and tell him the way! There are a wealth of new possibilities which can be very useful for handicapped people.""
10:01:42 This guidance is achieved thanks to EGNOS, the European