Horus Technology is an Italian start-up from Genoa that develops innovative solutions for sight impairment. The start up was founded two years ago by a multi-disciplinary team of three young university students:
Benedetta Magri, Luca Nardelli e Saverio Murgia.
For the first time at the RomeCup (March 25-27, 2015), the Horus team will showcase an innovative device to improve the quality of live of blind and sight-impaired individuals. Horus monitors the area around a person and provides audio feedback via headphones.
Benedetta is in contact with various no-profit organisations helping blind and sight-impaired individuals in Italy and the United Kingdom. She is studying Enterprise Economics at the University of Genoa and developing Horus’ business plan.
In the audio clip, Benedetta explains how she fell in love with Luca and Saverio’s business idea, an idea that was conceived per chance at a traffic light to help out a blind pedestrian.
Luca Nardelli, CTO and founder, is currently attending a Masters Programme in Bioengineering, after having graduated in Bio-medical Engineering at the University of Genoa (Issuge Honours Programme). Luca has experience in computer vision and GPU programming on CUDA frameworks.
Saverio Murgia, CEO and founder, is studying for a European Masters Degree in Advanced Robotics (EMARO) and also holds Bio-medical Engineering at the University of Genoa (Issuge Honours Programme). He has worked with computer vision, embedded systems programming and Unix-based operative systems. He is co-author of a paper on computer vision published by the International Visigrapp Conferencee.
In the audio clip, Saverio explains the characteristics of the wearable device that will be presented at the RomeCup 2015. The device recognisees pedestrian crossings, reads text and also has facial recognition and vocal interaction features.
