Digital analysis of surface characteristics to support wheelchair users
The equal participation of people with disabilities in social life is a fundamental human right. The “BaAn-Frei” project aims to identify the barriers that people who are dependent on a wheelchair face in everyday life. The aim is to design a tracking system and to process and analyse the data using an AI-based analysis method so that the surface characteristics of individual locations can be determined. The results of the analysis are processed digitally and made available via appropriate interfaces. Wheelchair users will be able to digitally inspect the accessibility and condition of individual streets and locations and record them independently using simple technologies. Once the project results have been passed on to the relevant local authorities, they will serve as a basis for planning and further developing urban and rural infrastructure and can therefore contribute to increasing the accessibility and inclusion of individual locations.
