Smart Blind Stick

The Project

A smart blind stick is an innovative device designed to assist visually impaired individuals in navigating their surroundings more safely. The primary objective of a smart blind stick is to enhance the independence and safety of blind people while walking. It incorporates various features to achieve this goal. 1)Obstacle detection: The stick uses sensors (such as ultrasonic or laser sensors) to detect obstacles in the user's path. 2)Navigation assistance: It provides real-time feedback to guide the user around obstacles by the beep sound. in this project we have used few components here are few examples of smart blind stick project is, Microcontroller (Arduino Uno) Based smart blind stick. components are Arduino Uno, Ultrasonic sensor, Buzzer, 9volts battery, jumper wires. Let's discuss how it is going to work: the ultrasonic sensor scan's the path in front of the stick when an obstacle is detected, the buzzer beeps and the user can hear the buzzer and change their direction accordingly. the future scope of a smart blind stick project involves exploring additional enhancements and functionalities to improve its effectiveness and usability. Here are some ideas for future development. 1) detecting manholes ,2) GPS integration, 3) advance object recognition 3) neighborhood-specific adaptation, 4)Face detection. The main purpose behind selecting this project is to make a positive difference in the lives of visually impaired individuals.

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Team Comments

Blind peoples have to face many challenges in their life, one of them is finding their way on the streets. On the streets, there are so many vehicles and obstacles that may block their way and also may injure them So keeping this problem in the mind we developed a Smart blind stick.

we find difficulties while working with the code that how much distance should we have to give for detecting obstacles and we worked with it for many times by changing the distance and later we came to point that to take less than 25cm.

yes. If we had more time and components with us than we may develop it to detect more advanced object recognition like manholes, gps integration. And also, we may create a model in an attractive way like small and low white which is easy to carry for blind people.