Smart Electronic Guiding Stick

Most human activities are carried on in particular places, and no matter how skillful a person may be in other respects, he or she will be excluded from participation in those activities by the inability to get to where they are carried on". Mobility for the blind is always a great problem. Here a cheap, user friendly, smart blind guidance system is designed and implemented to improve the mobility of both blind and visually impaired people for their routine life. The main concept of the system is to provide a smart electronic aid for blind people. The project is mainly intended to provide overall measures i.e. artificial vision and object detection. The aim of the project is to provide a low cost and efficient navigation aid for blind which gives a sense of artificial vision by providing information about the environmental scenario of static and dynamic objects around them. The significance of this project is to help the visually impaired people with appropriate voice commands that are played through the headphones connected to the device. Ultrasonic sensors are used to calculate distance of the obstacles around the blind person to guide the user towards the available path. An object recognition system can also be included to provide an additional virtual visionary to blind.