Open-Source Indoor Navigation System Adapted to Users with Motor Disabilities

This paper describes the development of a mobile indoor navigation system, supported by a GIS and built using only open source tools. For the sake of simplicity a single building was chosen for the tests converting the floors to digital information from paper plans. The rooms geometry was saved on a proper database with all the adjacent information associated, which can in turn be provided to the clients application by APIs and Web Services. The system is able to calculate the most adequate path between any of the rooms taking into account the user profile which is defined by it's degree of mobility (eg. wheelchair). By reading a QR code placed in key places inside the building the user can obtain, on a mobile phone, his current position and receive orientations to any room that he might want to go. The directions hints are complemented with the presentation of real pictures associated to key locations in the path to validate that the correct path is taken by the user.