Provision of Wayfinding Technology in UNHQ

The United Nations Secretariat is working toward improving the accessibility of its premises and services and to leverage innovative technologies to achieve this goal. An essential part of this goal is to facilitate the navigation of the buildings on the UNHQ campus for both visitors and staff as well as to provide the individual with relevant information related to their route. An initial proof of concept (POC) will be designed to test the technical feasibility of using wayfinding technologies together with a mobile phone to support navigation inside UN buildings.

The Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) will execute a POC to test the use of wayfinding technology together with a mobile phone application to navigate a defined and limited route within the General Assembly building. The way-finding system shall be able to accurately locate a person by locating her/his mobile phone and provide non-visual guidance to a set of possible destinations including nearest exit, 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. The system shall also be able to help a person navigate a preset path such as a path of a tour of the GA building that visitors take and should provide location -based information appropriate to the person’s location, such as a pre-recorded audio describing an exhibit.

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