Smart Walking Stick for Visually Impaired Person

Authors

  • Digvijay Singh Hada  Department of Electrical Engineering, SKIT M& G, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
  • Himanshu Gautam  Department of Electrical Engineering, SKIT M& G, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
  • Jitendra Rathore  Department of Electrical Engineering, SKIT M& G, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
  • Kamal Bhopani  Department of Electrical Engineering, SKIT M& G, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
  • Lakshita Vishnoi  Department of Electrical Engineering, SKIT M& G, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
  • Sarfaraz Nawaz  Department of Electrical Engineering, SKIT M& G, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Keywords:

Ultrasonic Sensors, Visually impaired Person

Abstract

In this world everyone is in a race of achieving success, so for the betterment and welfare of blind persons, many gadgets are invented, similarly our paper also describe a gadget which will improve the navigation of the person and will help in walking safely on the roads, by making him aware of the obstacle ahead in his path. And this would help such person to cope up with other. The paper describes a stick which is integrated with ultrasonic sensor and water sensors. The ultrasonic sensors detect obstacle ahead using ultrasonic waves and passes this data to microcontroller. The microcontroller then processes this data and calculates if the obstacle is close enough or not. And if it is close then it aware him via headphone giving him the knowledge of distance. It also senses pot holes filled with water and alerts the user by a different buzzer, making him aware that there is water in his path ahead. And it has the ability of detecting the live wire in the path. The system has one more advanced feature integrated to help the blind find their stick if they forget where they kept it. A wireless RF based remote is used for this purpose. Pressing the remote button sounds a buzzer on the stick which helps the blind person to find their stick. Thus, this system allows for obstacle detection as well as finding stick if misplaced by visually disabled people.

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2018-04-30

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Volume 4, Issue 5, March-April-2018

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Digvijay Singh Hada, Himanshu Gautam, Jitendra Rathore, Kamal Bhopani, Lakshita Vishnoi, Sarfaraz Nawaz, " Smart Walking Stick for Visually Impaired Person, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Volume 4, Issue 5, pp.1451-1457, March-April-2018.