Research Article
Design and Development of an Autonomous Smart Stick Framework for Assisting Visually Impaired People
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-93709-6_40, author={Tesfahunegn Minwuyelet Mengistu and Ayalew Belay Habtie and Fikreselam Gared Mengistu}, title={Design and Development of an Autonomous Smart Stick Framework for Assisting Visually Impaired People}, proceedings={Advances of Science and Technology. 9th EAI International Conference, ICAST 2021, Hybrid Event, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, August 27--29, 2021, Proceedings, Part I}, proceedings_a={ICAST}, year={2022}, month={1}, keywords={GPS GPRS GSM Navigation Smart stick VIP}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-93709-6_40} }- Tesfahunegn Minwuyelet Mengistu
Ayalew Belay Habtie
Fikreselam Gared Mengistu
Year: 2022
Design and Development of an Autonomous Smart Stick Framework for Assisting Visually Impaired People
ICAST
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-93709-6_40
Abstract
Visually Impaired People(VIP) face numerous obstacles and troubles like physiological, psychological, social, and economic outcomes in their daily life. This work brings an intelligent and comprehensive stick framework aimed to assist VIP and navigate where to go. To increase sensing mechanisms wireless network is used to communicate between system components, enhance battery life. Global Positioning System (GPS) with General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)/Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) plays a vital role to get the location of visually impaired people with a short message service to rescuer them and adding buzzer timer to activate a buzzer in a specific duration with control buttons. It has a high range of obstacle detection, meticulous information conveyed, endowed sensor alert notification, sustainable power supply, short and multimedia messaging service (MMS), face and voice recognition, wireless system component connection, and its foldability gave the smart stick easy to keep and comfort for the VIP when they hold in addition to its robustness.
