Beaconless Indoor Navigation

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this Expression of Interest (EOI) is to identify qualified vendors capable of providing and supporting a ready-to-use beaconless indoor navigation solution to improve accessibility, particularly for persons with disabilities. The service provider shall facilitate the navigation of buildings on the UNHQ campus for staff and visitors, and provide the individual with relevant information related to their route by implementing a ready to-use beaconless indoor navigation solution with enough positional accuracy and voice turn-by-turn navigation guidance for the visually impaired. The solution should require no additional hardware or infrastucture (i.e., beacons) except the associated required application servers and the client devices. SCOPE: The way-finding system shall be able to accurately locate a person by locating a user's mobile phone and provide non-visual guidance to a set of possible destinations including nearest bathroom (if the bathrooms are separated by gender it shall navigate to the bathroom of the user’s choice), and to a specific conference room or other specific location. Specific Requirements/Information The solution must support the below technical requirements: Mandatory requirements - Solution works without hardware beacon and/or signal generating devices requirement except a client mobile device - Solution provides mobile applications for both Apple iOS and Google/Android platforms - Solution provided mobile applications must support respective platform’s native accessibility features such as, Talkback for Google/Android and VoiceOver for Apple iOS - Solution provided mobile applications must be available to the respective app store of each platform - Solution provided mobile applications must support latest operating system version along with at least two previous major versions - Solution provides turn-by-turn audio guidance to users Non-mandatory requirements - Solution provides positional accuracy be within 1 meter - Solution provides an interface that UN can dynamically update indoor space information if needed . Command line interface . Graphic user interface . Mobile app interface - Solution detects a user's initial position automatically . A user must input . Automatically with some user input . Automatically with no user input - Solution provides an indoor position SDK/library that can be used for other mobile applications . Apple iOS . Google/Android - List solution provides mobile applications with different graphic interfaces for different user groups For example: . A graphic interface for persons with visual impairment . A graphic interface for persons with mobility impairment - Solution provides mobile applications that support all UN official languages: . Arabic . Chinese . English . French . Russian . Spanish