Blinds Eye

Project Title

Blinds Eye

Project Area of Specialization Artificial IntelligenceProject Summary

The project “Smart Stick for Blind is designed to create a system using Ultrasonic sensors, GPS module and providing Voice command through headphone to the blind people. It would help a visually impaired person navigate through a public place independently. The proposed system tries to eliminate the faults in the previous system. It aims to solve the problems faced by the blind people in their daily life. The system also takes measures to ensure their safety. The design Smart Stick for Blind using ultrasonic sensors and GPS with voice output is of great benefit to blind people when it comes to independent mobility. The advantage of the system lies in the fact that it can prove to be very low-cost solution to millions of blind person worldwide. The proposed combination of Ultrasonic Sensor and GPS makes a real-time system that monitors position of the user and provides feedback making navigation more safe   and secure. We are using Espeak text to speech conversion to provide voice command as output. Blind person can easily navigate from one place to another as we are providing voice message. The prototype of Smart Stick for Blind is able to detect obstacles in front of the user. And, it is therefore capable of guiding a visually impaired person for navigating his environment.

Project Objectives

The main objective of our project is to provide a voice-based assistance to blind people. We will develop an intelligent system that helps blind person to travel independently and works efficiently. Current navigation device for the visually impair focus on travelling from one location to another. Our project focuses on designing a device for blind people that help them to travel independently and it must be comfortable to use. The proposed device is used for guiding individuals who are blind or partially sighted. The device is used to help blind people to move with the same ease and confidence as a sighted people.

Project Implementation Method

The proposed system has been divided into two parts. The first part was about designing the smart stick .The first phase was designing every part alone. Then, the second phase was to assemble the parts together.The second part was the electronic system. The electronic system has been controlled using raspberry pi . When the switch on the top of the stick; the Ultrasonic is immediately sending the signal from the transmitter. However, when the signal impacts the level surface it reflects back to the sensor`s receiver. Therefore, the raspberry pi  will send a pulse to the actuators (in this case, the vibrating motor and the buzzer) to work as the uploaded code.The distance and object regination will be informed by text to speech converter.

Benefits of the Project

Eyesight plays a major role in collecting most of the information from the real world and that information will be processed by brain, visually impaired people suffer inconveniences in their daily and social life. Blindness or visual impairment is a condition that affects many people around the world. This condition leads to the loss of the valuable sense of vision. Worldwide there are millions of people who are visually impaired, where many of them are blind. The need for assistive devices was and will be continuous. There is a wide range of navigation systems and tools existing for visually impaired individuals. The blind person truly requires an identifying object.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

The end product of our project will be a smart stick that has above mentioned specifications to help visually impaired people.

Final Deliverable of the Project HW/SW integrated systemCore Industry ITOther IndustriesCore Technology Artificial Intelligence(AI)Other TechnologiesSustainable Development GoalsRequired Resources

Item Name	Type	No. of Units	Per Unit Cost (in Rs)	Total (in Rs)
			Total in (Rs)	68200
raspberry pi 4	Equipment	1	14700	14700
Ultrasonic	Equipment	2	200	400
Speaker	Equipment	1	1000	1000
Vibrating Motor	Equipment	1	100	100
Nevigation Sensor	Equipment	1	37000	37000
Gyroscope	Equipment	1	300	300
Other	Miscellaneous	1	10000	10000
Camera Module	Equipment	1	4500	4500
Mic	Equipment	1	200	200