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A Smart Shoe for Visually Impaired People

Prasanna Devi*, Mohana Priya K. **, Meenakkshi Palanisamy ***, Priya S. ****, Pruthvi Raj R. *****

*-***** Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Dr. NGP Institute of Technology, Coimbatore., Tamilnadu, India.

Periodicity:January - June'2021
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jes.9.2.18146

Abstract

Blindness is a very common and intolerable disability compared to other disabilities. The smart shoe comes as a proposed solution to enable them to walk around the world. In this paper, we propose a solution based on the design of a smart shoe system to help visually impaired people. The proposed visually impaired (VI) system is developed to assist the visually impaired people with three modules (i). obstacle detection and recognition, (ii). tracking and, (iii). real time location sharing. The system is based on a Raspberry pi with synthesized speech output. This aid is portable and provides information to the user about step-by-step walking routes to the destination. The proposed system uses camera to detect and identify the obstacle and send the audio output to the user. This system also includes GPS module to track the visually impaired people with the help of accelerometer and send the alert message and real time location sharing to the caretaker if there is an emergency. Due to the piezoelectric effect, the LED can glow to indicate another person to avoid accidents during nighttime.

Keywords

Raspberry Pi, GPS Module, Web Camera, Wireless Headphones, Visually Impaired.

How to Cite this Article?

Devi, P., Priya, M. K., Palanisamy, M., Priya, S., and Raj, P. R. (2021). A Smart Shoe for Visually Impaired People. i-manager's Journal on Embedded Systems, 9(2), 29-35. https://doi.org/10.26634/jes.9.2.18146

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