Built with O&Ms since day 1

From the very first sketch, biped involved Orientation and Mobility (O&M) specialists, low vision experts and end-users. biped's team has been actively developing NOA with the Ophthalmic Hospital in Lausanne as well as various centers around the globe.

NOA was designed with communities of Orientation and Mobility trainers. Multiples times per quarter, we focused on hosting demos of our device with O&M centers, occupational therapists and low vision experts to gather feedback on our development, the next features to develop, and how to position NOA as the perfect complement to white canes and guide dogs.

We scheduled 100+ demo sessions with end-users to test NOA, building the largest community possible, and most importantly, collecting data on a wide variety of use-cases: children, elderly, mobility impairements or hearing loss.

2 batteries with magnetic connectors that can be inserted in a NOA device A travel bag holding with a NOA device inside, a charger and batteries.

The mobility app

The hardest, when training someone on a new technology, is to understand the technology first. That's why our team developed a smartphone application that helps O&M specialists during training sessions.

The app connects over Bluetooth to the NOA device of the user and provides a full transparency on what is happening in the device: the GPS that the user should follow, the location of the obstacles and the descriptions that the AI system provided.

The training program

A screenshot of the training template

If you're interested to introduce NOA to a customer, but not sure how to get started, this is your starting point!

We created a full onboarding manual. It's quick to read, helps you become a product expert, and most importantly, it has a full training template that we designed with mobility trainers locally.

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