Camera control software for the visually impaired
Assistive technology innovator
Sight Enhancement Systems (SES) designs and manufactures high-quality, highly innovative and competitively priced assistive devices for people with low vision.
The company’s products include specialized cameras, calculators, and portable electronic magnifiers, which can be used at home, school and work.
“I was impressed with the amount of effort the NetFore team put in at the start of the project to make sure they understood our requirements before moving ahead with the implementation.”
Rob Hilkes
President, Sight Enhancement Systems
Challenge
Sight Enhancement Systems’ SceneEye 500 is a highly-specialized camera that helps people with low vision participate more fully in everyday activities. The SceneEye 500 enables them to perform tasks that normally would require full vision, such as reading a book, watching a presentation, or reading the blackboard at school.
Before going to market with SceneEye, SES needed to develop a web-based application that would allow users to view the camera images in a web browser running on a tablet or laptop.
Solution
SceneEye web application
Sight Enhancement Systems selected NetFore to build a web application that allows users to operate the SceneEye camera to view objects close up and at a distance, depending on their needs.
After conducting an in-depth analysis of the requirements, the NetFore team defined the application architecture and completed the detailed design in close consultation with Sight Enhancement Systems.
The resulting application, which was designed, built and tested by NetFore, makes it simple for users to view the image produced by the camera in real-time. It also gives them the ability to fine tune various settings such as contrast and magnification level to optimize the image to meet their individual needs.