Smart Stick and Helmet for Blind People

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that there are 285 million visuallyimpaired people in the world. Among these individuals, there are 39 million who are fully blind. There have been several systems designed to help visually-impaired people and to improve the quality of their lives. Unfortunately, most of these systems are confined in their capabilities. In this paper, we present a comparative observation of the wearable and portable assistive devices for visually-impaired people in order to show the progress in assistive technology for this group of people. They cannot do any movement outside or inside independently. They have just about one helping hand which is stick. But sometimes this stick cannot save the man from danger. By watching this matter here comes an idea to give a smart life to a blind person. A stick and a smart helmet that can detect obstacle in front of a person. This paper proposes a prototype, Smart Helmet, for helping visually impaired to identify common real life object such as a person, car, cat, dog, bottle, etc. Our system use Object Detection of Computer Vision to identify objects and will give an audio output about object is in front of the user. The main objective of this project is to help user identify the object on real-time. So comparably this stick can be more useful and can make a blind person's life easier.