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Obstacle tracer for visually impared

Author:B.Persis Urbana Ivy and S.Babu

Abstract:
Being future technocrats we tossed this idea with an aim to provide service to the society. Providing an overture for the visually impaired, to make them feel self-reliant and thus raise their status in the society is the ultimate aim of our project. The proposed concept consists of a smart stick that generates voice output using the voice arrays and pre programmed microcontrollers. This tool encompasses five constructive features. The pre-eminent feature is the Obstacle Tracer which uses ultrasonic sensors to detect the obstacles on the person?s way and redirects them appropriately using voice commands. Area Detector uses the GPS module to figure out the location and gives the output as voice stream. Destination alerter generates a voice alert to the person on reaching a landmark (such as bus stop, bank, post office etc?.) In addition to these our contrivance also has the Onboard Alerter module that informs the person when a bus enters the boarding area. This uses the transmitters in the bus and receivers in the contrivance. The Off Board Alerter specifies the subsequent bus stops as soon as the person boards on the bus. Thus our appliance will help the visually impaired person to be independent in his own path.