Patent ID: 8581747

Claim:
A pedestrian support system that supports the movement of a pedestrian using tags, comprising: a plurality of tags having an information storage unit and that are placed on cables that extend over a path being traveled; a guide device, having an ID by which a central control device (terms described below) can uniquely identify the guide device, that is held by a pedestrian and is capable of non-contact communication with said tags; an input device that inputs a starting location and a destination location: and a central control device that includes a database in which correspondence between the location of each of the tags and tag ID of the tag is recorded, a database in which tag map information is recorded so that the path information from the starting location to the destination location is created using the tag IDs, and a processing unit that uses the correspondence when the starting location and the destination location are input, to obtain the tag IDs of the starting location and the destination location and uses the obtained tag IDs and the tag map information to create the path information having tag IDs that are arranged in the order of tags that are along a path from the starting location to the destination location and directly or indirectly sets that path information in said guide device; wherein each of said tag IDs in the path information includes the direction of travel to the destination location, and said guide device reads tag IDs from said tags and compares those tag IDs with the tag IDs in said path information in order to identify where on the path the pedestrian is moving, then provides information to support the movement of the pedestrian based on that path information.