vehicles These automobiles particularly depend on safe and highly reliable actuators such as steering functions That s why Schaeffler in 2018 entered into a joint venture with Paravan in order to be able to use this technology in its small and agile Schaeffler Mover vehicle concept among other things The technology also makes everyday life easier for Christian Bayerlein from Koblenz Germany His arm and hand functions are severely impaired and he uses an electric wheelchair The IT professional has person ally optimized or simply modified many of his technical aids By means of a mini joystick he operates his smart phone via a Bluetooth mouse module that s integrated in his wheelchair In addition he has integrated a wired receiver with a web interface into his system It often happens that I d like to solve a problem and then take a look at what s possible with technology The front door of his house is opened by a smartlock called Nuki for which he has written a web interface so that he can open the door from his PC using voice recognition All the smarthome technology has its origins in the disabil ity sector and has now been modified for the mass mar ket says Bayerlein Even so Bayerlein doesn t feel that technology is a cure all Better technology must not keep society from creating accessibility he says He views nurse ro bots and so called exoskeletons designed to enable par alyzed people to walk with skepticism as well In some cases it takes my personal assistants years to learn how to effectively help me without causing me pain and to seat me in stable and comfortable ways he explains An assistant needs to know exactly how to handle him for instance when lifting him into a wheelchair I also feel that the human factor is important I d miss that in a nurse robot Exoskeletons he feels are a hype For Challenged people have covered more than a billion kilometers using Paravan s drive by wire system In a joint venture with Schaeffler the technology is now making its way into autonomous vehicles Seeing AI a vision aid based on the smartphone Since it was invented the smart phone has become the number one aid for blind people With its See ing AI app Microsoft has created kind of a Swiss Army Knife for blind and low vision users The app uses artificial intelligence to read signs or documents It recognizes bar codes and persons if they ve previ ously been stored in it It s able to classify money and describe scenes in photographs In addition it serves as a color recognition system and is able to convert light intensi ties into sound the brighter the en vironment the higher the pitch The app is able to issue all this informa tion within a matter of milliseconds and as a result has become an important tool for visually impaired people in everyday life Aira the airport navigator Visually impaired people having to find their way around airports used to practically always require on site assistance in order to find their de parture gates or the security check points The app Aira uses artificial intelligence AI and remote assis tance RA to help visually impaired people to orient themselves in places like airports or with other challeng ing everyday situations Users are connected to specially trained staff who via the smartphone camera or a set of camera glasses are able to see what s happening around the user They can point out the way or assist with other problems APPS FOR THE BLIND Artificial eye the Seeing AI app translates images into speech 72 73

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