The Free Mobility Assistance Project

The core idea of YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory 's "Kobe Free Mobility Assistance Project" is to implant RFID tags in streets, Braille pavement blocks and other urban objects and use them to help people get around in a city and receive shop information.

Pedestrians would use handheld devices to get voice and visual information from the so-called ucode tags, such as "You are at XXX in YYY town" "If you turn right, there'll be a train station" ...

A pilot test of the project will start in April in Kobe.

Via RFID in Japan. More images. PDF of the project.