Smart Supervisory Stick for Blind Using Raspberry Pi

Blindness is one the issues over which humans still have no control. It takes away the very right of the person to witness the everlasting visual beauty of the world from one’s life. But on the other side, the worries are even more worse, the endless problems faced by them during performing even the simplest of the tasks in day to day life hinders their existence. Being independent is the very right that everyone is born with, which is to live and lead life without being controlled by any action, or acumen from any external factors is rightfully termed as being independent. Traveling is the most dominant problem for people with blindness, for instance during finding a transport, crossing roads, travelling through trains or bus, and it becomes an impossible task to commute through public places. These issues lead to their lack of confidence and even deteriorate their health. With the present technology driven era solution lies in developing a smart stick which enables the people with blindness to ease their problems and help them in carrying out daily tasks. Thus the proposed work presents a smart stick for the people with blindness. It is developed and designed using Ultrasonic sensors, GPS module and has the ability to provide voice command to people through headsets. There by helping the people with blindness to safely navigate through public places independently and helping in carrying out daily tasks.