Smart Stick Research Articles

Smart Walking Stick for Blind People

Human beings are having five basic senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste. When an object comes in contact with any sensing organ an information signal is sent to the brain. The brain processes the signal and helps us to understand and perceive our surroundings. Sight is very important of the five senses. Low vision or blindness has a long lasting effect on all aspects of an individual’s life. Visually impaired person find it difficult detecting obstacles in front of them, during walking within the road, which makes it dangerous. The smart stick is a proposed solution to help enable them to identify the world around. In this paper we propose an answer, represented during a smart persist with infrared sensor to detect stair-cases and pair of ultrasonic sensors to detect the other obstacles in front of the user. Moreover, a sensor at the bottom of the stick is provided for the sake of avoiding puddles. The smart stick will be of low cost, fast response, low power consumption and light weight.

Performance Analysis of Smart Stick Designed for Visually Impaired People Using GSM and GPS

Visual impairment burdens the people heavily in today’s fast-moving culture. Although there are several measures for this impairment, many people skip such chances in fear of their economic condition. In view of helping those people, a sophisticated stick is designed using sensors like ultrasonic sensor, IR sensor and Arduino ICs. Electronically designed walking stick helps to trace the locations using GPS module and to avoid collisions through detection of objects at a certain range of distance from the person in all directions. Sensor placed beneath the bottom of the stick enables the identification of pits/hindrances on the ground. The visually impaired person will be alerted with a voice message generated using the voice recorder which records the response of all the sensors operating in different tracks. In this paper, GSM and sensors together have initiated the role of smart walking stick in the life of several human kinds.

WITHDRAWN: RFID Based Smart-Cart system with automated billing and assistance for visually impaired

Nowadays in shopping complexes and departmental stores, we use trolleys to collect things and get it billed in the billing counter. By doing so there exists an inordinate delay when the products are individually checked and billed. This delay may lead to long queues in the billing counter. Especially during rush hours, this wastes our valuable time as well as create discomfort. In the existing system, the shop owners need to monitor customer activities and maintain staff for manual checking of every commodity and its billing. Further, manual stock maintenance is performed. In order to overcome the above issues, we have proposed an advanced retail system using RFID enabled smart-cart with automated billing system. RFID readers are used to read the product tag while dropping into the trolley and taking out of the trolley. When the product is dropped inside the trolley a reader sends an appropriate product ID, quantity and price to the microcontroller. At the same time the updated bill amount will be displayed in the cart LCD. Similarly, when the product is taken out of the trolley another RF reader sends the product ID which is removed from the bill and the updated bill amount is displayed in the LCD. During both events the product and billing details are sent to the remote PC along with cart ID. When the customer finished the purchase, final bill is generated for the cart and the bill amount is displayed to the customer. This system also updates the stock of the product after every billing session. It also contains a smart stick that identifies the object using the same RFID technology for the blind people. Whenever, the stick is kept near the product, the information is announced through voice IC and speaker. Thus the proposed system avoids queuing, and gives us a pleasant shopping experience. In the shop owner’s view, this system reduces the need for surveillance and the manpower.

Mobile Based IoT Solution for Helping Visual Impairment Users

Blind people have many tasks to do in their lives. However, blindness generates challenges for them to perform their tasks. Many blind persons use a traditional stick to move around and to perform their tasks. But the obstacles are not detected in traditional stick, it is ineffective for visually impaired people. The blind person has no idea what kind of objects or obstacles are in front of him/her. The blind person has no idea what size the object is or how far away he or she is from it. It is difficult for a blind person to get around. To assist people with vision impairment by making many of their daily tasks simple, comfortable, and organized, they will be able to recognize anything (an obstacle for blind people). A smart stick with mobile application can be used. One of the solutions is a mobile-based Internet of Things solution, which is a stick intended to assist visually impaired people to navigate more easily. It enables blindness and low vision people to navigate and carry out their daily tasks with ease and comfort. A technologically advanced blind stick that enables visually impaired people to move with ease. This paper proposes a system of software and hardware that helps visually impairment people to find their ways in an easy and comfortable way. The proposed system uses smart stick and mobile application to help blind and visually impaired people to identify objects (such as walls, tables, vehicles, people, etc.) in their ways, this can enable them to avoid these objects. In addition, as a result, the system will notify the user through sound from the smartphone. Finally, if he/she gets lost, he will be able to send an SMS with his/her GPS location.

ISeePlus : A cost effective smart assistance archetype based on deep learning model for visually impaired

In this paper, a unique smart assistance aid, iSeePlus, for visually impaired people is presented. iSeePlus, as a prototype product, is equipped with smart glasses (iSee Glasses), a smart stick (iStick) and an android application which will be initially used to set up the device. The smart glasses are trained on proposed deep learning models to provide features like face detection and recognition, emotion detection and image captioning with a click of a specifically placed buttons on the device. The proposed prototype product also supports reading texts from images via Google Cloud Vision API and allows the user to send alert texts with his current location to the saved emergency contacts. The iStick is an integrated accessory that comes with iSeePlus which creates vibrations to alert the user of any incoming obstacle within the range of 25 cm. The android application will be used to set up the device at initial stages as it helps to add a database of known people and the emergency contacts. Presently, iSeePlus, has an accuracy of 98.03% on face detection and recognition model, FDREnet, 68.5% on emotion detection with ExpressNet and 65.7% on image captioning with CaptionMeNet BLUE-1: 65.7). With the help of iSeePlus, people suffering from visual impairment will now be able to do their day-to-day chores independently up to a significant degree.

Smart Stick for Blinds with advanced Face Recognition and Vehicle Detection using Machine Learning

Smart Stick for Blinds with advanced Face Recognition and Vehicle Detection using Machine Learning

A Survey of Smart Stick for Visually Impaired People

A Survey of Smart Stick for Visually Impaired People

A Smart Stick with Keypad for Dual Sensory Impaired

A Smart Stick with Keypad for Dual Sensory Impaired

“Smart Stick for Blind People”

“Smart Stick for Blind People”

Design of smart stick for visually impaired people using Arduino

Nowadays, blind or impaired people are facing a lot of problems in their daily life since it is not easy for them to move, which is very dangerous. There are about 37 million visually impaired people across the globe according to the World Health Organization. People with these problems mostly depend on others, for example, a friend, or their trained dog while movıng outside. Thus, we were motivated to develop a smart stick to solve this problem. The smart stick, integrated with an ultrasonic sensor, buzzer and vibrator, can detect obstacles in the path of the blind people. The buzzer and vibration motor are activated when any obstacle is detected to alert the blind person. This work proposes a low-cost ultrasonic smart blind stick for blind people so that they can move from one place to another in an easy, safe and independent manner. The system was designed and programmed using C language.
 Keywords: Arduino Uno, Arduino IDE, ultrasonic sensor, buzzer, motor.

Intelligent Companion for Blind: Smart Stick

Blindness is a state of lacking the visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors. According to World Health Organization, approximately 1.3 billion people live with some form of visual impairment with 36 million people being completely blind. These people face great difficulty in independent and safe mobility. Almost 89% of such people live in low and middle income countries, and are unable to afford existing mobility aid devices. Addressing these difficulties, the proposed research aims to design a low-cost and user- friendly guidance system “Smart Stick” which serves as an Electronic travel Aid and as a Position Locator Device. It helps to improve the mobility of both blind and visually impaired people, enabling them to navigate safely by avoiding any obstacles that may encounter and providing facility to communicate its current location to any of his/her relative. This device is tested under natural environmental conditions, and has performed excellent under low and high light environments too. The proposed design achieves reduction in cost by 44% in comparison to existing devices

Smart Stick for Hurdle Detection and Location Tracking for Blinds

Smart Stick for Hurdle Detection and Location Tracking for Blinds

A Design review of Smart Stick for the Blind Equipped with Obstacle Detection and Identification using Artificial Intelligence

A Design review of Smart Stick for the Blind Equipped with Obstacle Detection and Identification using Artificial Intelligence

Smart Stick For Visually Challenged People

Smart Stick For Visually Challenged People

Smart Stick for Blind People Using Ultrasonic Waves

The life of visually impaired people is very difficult. They face many problems to cross the road. Many a times they get hit by the objects on road which may led to serious injuries. The paper represents an approach to overcome this problem by using a smart stick for improved navigation. Many a times the stick is not very useful for blind people, using smart stick visually impaired people are able to detect the obstacles at a distance of four meters using ultrasonic sensors and if they are lost, using wireless radio frequency remote they are able to locate the stick with the help of buzzer sound if misplaced.

IoT Based Route Assistance for Visually Challenged

In this convenient and fashionable era, navigation technology has advanced enormously from late man followed by North star till today’s Google maps. This has brought up an intelligent device for visually challenged people who can hardly use any of this invented technology. Evidently, they are the ones who need assistance and routing in daily life. The current proposed system comprises of Radio frequency identification, electronic aid software system and an exclusively implied ultrasonic sensor module. To guarantee that the visually impaired individual reaches the destination properly, one can also implement a Arduino Uno with GPS routing also in order to avoid obstacles and also see to that they reach safe and securely. The device must also have good performance ensuring some of the factors like cost efficient, persistent response, use of adequate power supply and weights low. A device proposed may be a smart stick with and without voice module, a smart cane, Braille smart device.

Blind's Mate - A Navigation System for Blind People

Visually challenged people rely on companions around them on daily basis. Basic chores of day to day life pose a challenge for people with impaired vision. Walking on streets while dodging obstacles and navigating through roads to reach desired destination independently is one such challenge. Proposed system 'Blind's Mate' is a combination of software and hardware technology that can be used to improve the walking experience of blind people. Blind’s Mate is a combination of smart stick and a mobile app that can alert people of impending obstacles and water pits while providing audio feed to the users about obstacles encountered during walking. This stick is embedded with ultrasonic sensor to detect any obstacles in front of the user. The app gives live feed to the user continuously via earphones. Speech warning messages are activated when any obstacle is detected. The proposed stick is of low cost, has fast response, low power consumption, light weight and an effective means to help blind people finding their way on streets with ease.

Novel Design the: -Real-time Assistance of Smart Stick for the Blind

Novel Design the: -Real-time Assistance of Smart Stick for the Blind

EMBEDDED ASSISTIVE STICK FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE

Today's technology is improved to a greater extent for the betterment of people, but there are some people with disabilities like blindness. In order to overcome their problem a smart stick is designed with GPS-GSM module, ultrasonic sensor that would help them in their way to identify obstacle. Ultrasonic sensors calculate the distance of the obstacles around the visually impaired person to guide the user towards the necessary path. This paper describes about how each components would help them. This also helps to find the stick if it is lost. The tool says that, the smart walking stick that alerts visually-impaired persons over obstacles, fire, and water and could help them in walking with less accident.

Smart Walking Stick for Visually Impaired People

In this paper, we introduce a smart stick system for assisting blind people. The smart stick comes as a proposed solution to enable visually impaired people to find difficulties in detecting obstacles and dangers in front of them during walking and to identify the world around. The system is designed to act like an artificial vision and alarm unit.The system consists of five components: ultrasonic sensor, Vibrator motor, water sensor, light (LDR) sensor, microcontroller (Arduino Uno R3) to receive the sensor signals and process them to short pulses to the Arduino pins where buzzers, vibrator and voice alarms are connected. GPS navigation in the Mobile can be used to guide the blind for new places and unfamiliar places. We seek in our project to provide a smart stick affordable and suitable for most blind people, and also it is light in weight. It can be made available to all segments of the society and their families who need them.