The Oxford College of Engineering

Department of ISE.

Seminar on:
“Location Finding for Blind People
Using Voice Navigation Stick”

Presented By:
SANJANA V
1OX12IS115
 AGENDA

 INTRODUCTION
 PROBLEM STATEMENT
 EXISTING METHODS
 PROPOSED SYSTEM
 BLOCK DIAGRAM
 BENEFITS & LIMITATIONS
 REFERENCES
 INTRODUCTION

 The system facilitates blind people to navigate independently

without any external help by means of talkative assistance.
 The system is linked with a GSM-GPS module to pin-point the
location of the blind person and to establish a two way
communication path in a wireless fashion.
 The system is equipped with obstacle sensors such as
ULTRASONIC and IR sensor to alert the blind person.
 PROBLEM STATEMENT

 Over 285 million people are visually impaired worldwide: 39

million of them being blind and 246 million have low vision.
 About 90% of the world’s visually impaired live in developing
countries.
 The blind traveller should depend on any other guide like blind
cane, people information, trained dogs, etc.
 Existing Methods &
Disadvantages
 Blind Cane
• Awkwardness.
• Recognition of obstacles up to knee level.
• Does not protect from obstacles at torso and face level.
• Prone to injuries.
 Trained Guide Dogs
• 1% usage.
• Expensive to Train Dogs ( $40k in USA).
• Training period on an average 6 months.
• Difficulty in dog up-keeping costs and lifestyle changes.
 Human Guide
• Dependency.
• Feeling of being a burden.
 PROPOSED SYSTEM
The main objective of the voice navigation stick are:
1. GPS
2. GSM
3. Obstacle Sensors:
 Ultrasonic Sensor
 IR Sensor
 GPS & GSM
GPS

 GPS: Features the 16 channels. This completely enabled GPS

receiver provides high position, velocity and time accuracy
performances as well as high sensitivity and tracking
capabilities.
 GSM: (Global System for Mobile communication) is a digital
mobile telephony system. GSM uses a variation of time
division multiple access (TDMA). GSM digitizes and
compresses data, then sends it down a channel with two other
streams of user data, each in its own time slot.
 ULTRASONIC
SENSOR
 Ultrasonic sensors are used to
measure distances between the
obstacle/object and sensor.
 Consists of ultrasonic
transmitter and receiver.
 Transmitter transmits signal in
one direction, transmitted
signal is reflected back by
obstacle and received by
receiver.
-Working of Ultrasonic Sensor
BLOCK DIAGRAM
BENEFITS & LIMITATION
Benefits Limitations
Accurate detection of obstacles of Recognition of objects.
left, right and front side.

Very convenient for the users- Not water proof.

Independency and Confidence.

Detection of ground level to head

level.

Low cost.(Rs. 3000 approx.)

Very low power consumption.

High Performance.

Auto detection and auto alarming.

 REFERENCES
 S. Sai Santhosh, T. Sasiprabha, R. Jeberson,. "BLI – NAV Embedded
Navigation System for Blind People." IEEE, 277-282, 2010:.
 A. R. García, R. Fonseca. A. Durán. "Electronic long cane for locomotion
improving on visual impaired people." IEEE, pp.58-61, 2011
 Alshbatat, Abdel Ilah Nour. "Automated Mobility and Orientation System for
Blind or Partially." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON SMART SENSING
AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, 568-582, 2013.
 Mahdi Safaa A., Muhsin Asaad H. and Al-Mosawi Ali I. "Using Ultrasonic
Sensor for Blind and Deaf persons Combines Voice." International Science
Congress Association, 50-52, 2012
 Harshad Girish Lele, Viten Vilas Lonkar, Varun Vasant Marathe, Mrunmayi
Mohan Modak. "electronic path guidance for visually impaired people." The
International Journal Of Engineering And Science (IJES), 09-14, 2013.
 K. Steed-Terry, “Integrating GIS and the Global Positioning System,” 2nd ed.
ESRI inc. pp.1–12, 2001.
 A. Hub and B. Schmitz, “Addition of RFID-Based Initialization and Object
Recognition to the Navigation System TANIA,” Visualization and Interactive
Systems Group, Stuttgart, 2009.
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