Intelligent cane for assistant to blind and visual impairment people

Abstract

Everyone wants freedom in their life to go anywhere and everywhere, but some cannot have due to their compromised vision. Electronic mobility aid has been proposed in this paper to help them make their life easier and more convenient. The National Institutes of Health of the United States published an article on NCBI reporting problems faced by blind people in navigating and obstacle detection. To overcome these for a visually impaired person by using technologies and the Internet of Things (IoT) platforms like the Thingspeak and IFTTT server. This mobility aid will help their guardian or family member to navigate them. In addition to this, if a person tumbles, then an alert message is sent to their closed ones so help can reach them. The current system becomes bulky so to overcome their restrictions this device contains all the components befitted within this stick.