Design of Smart Glove for Deaf and Dumb People

Project Title

Design of Smart Glove for Deaf and Dumb People

Project Area of Specialization Wearables and ImplantableProject Summary

Communication plays an important role for human beings. Communication is treated as a life skill. Keeping these important words in mind we present our project to help in improving the communication with the deaf and dumb people using flex sensor technology. Generally dumb people use sign language for communication but they find difficulty in communicating with others who don't understand sign language. This project aims to lower this barrier in communication. A brief description about various gestures and the implementation part is discussed in this project. An electronic device is developed that can translate sign language into speech in order to make the communication take place between speech impaired and paralyzed patients with the general public possible. Gloves is used which is normal cloth driving gloves fitted with flex sensors along the length of each finger and the thumb and to perform hand gesture and it will be converted into speech so that normal people can understand their expression. A gesture in a sign language is a particular movement of the hands with a specific shape made out of them. A sign language usually provides sign for whole words, Flex Sensor plays a very important role in this. Flex sensors are those which change in resistance depending on the amount of bend on the sensor. Sensors in the glove pick up gestures and transmit the data with the help of analog to digital convertor to microcontroller. Converted text data of both will be sent wirelessly through RF transmitter at the sending side. RF receiver at the receiving side converts this text data to speech by the recorder and displayed on the LCD.

Project Objectives

1. The main objective of this project is to design a smart glove that can assist the impaired people to communicate with normal people.
2. To design suitable algorithm for real time implementation of proposed system using AVR microcontroller.
3. To compare the simulation and hardware results for validation of designed model.

Project Implementation Method

Proposed Methodology

1st  STEP

•Study of the characteristics of Flex Sensor & AVR Atmega32a Microcontroller.

2nd  STEP

•Learning the interfacing of flex sensor with AVR Microcontroller (Programming Approach)

3rd  STEP

•Model Design and Simulation using Proteus 8 Software

4th   STEP

•Building up Hardware Model.

5th   STEP

•Verifying Results

Benefits of the Project

The people who cannot speak or have lost their ability to speak in some accident, it becomes difficult for them to convey their message within the society. To overcome this, we have come up with a project called 'Smart Glove'.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Communication plays an important role for human beings. Communication is treated as a life skill. Keeping these important words in mind we present our project to help in improving the communication with the deaf and dumb people using flex sensor technology. Generally dumb people use sign language for communication but they find difficulty in communicating with others who don't understand sign language. This project aims to lower this barrier in communication. A brief description about various gestures and the implementation part is discussed in this project. An electronic device is developed that can translate sign language into speech in order to make the communication take place between speech impaired and paralyzed patients with the general public possible. Gloves is used which is normal cloth driving gloves fitted with flex sensors along the length of each finger and the thumb and to perform hand gesture and it will be converted into speech so that normal people can understand their expression. A gesture in a sign language is a particular movement of the hands with a specific shape made out of them. A sign language usually provides sign for whole words, Flex Sensor plays a very important role in this. Flex sensors are those which change in resistance depending on the amount of bend on the sensor. Sensors in the glove pick up gestures and transmit the data with the help of analog to digital convertor to microcontroller. Converted text data of both will be sent wirelessly through RF transmitter at the sending side. RF receiver at the receiving side converts this text data to speech by the recorder and displayed on the LCD.

Final Deliverable of the Project Hardware SystemType of Industry Education , Health , Telecommunication Technologies Shared Economy, Wearables and Implantables, OthersSustainable Development Goals Good Health and Well-Being for People, Quality EducationRequired Resources

Item Name	Type	No. of Units	Per Unit Cost (in Rs)	Total (in Rs)
			Total in (Rs)	44000
All electronic Components	Equipment	10	3500	35000
Other	Miscellaneous	3	3000	9000