Destine - Gps Guided Shoes For Blind: Sumanth G. Rao

DESTINE – GPS GUIDED SHOES FOR BLIND
Sumanth G. Rao1
ECE Dept., YIT,
Moodbidri, India1
Dharmesh Nayak2
ECE Dept., YIT,
Moodbidri, India2
Sharath M.3
ECE Dept., YIT,
Moodbidri, India2
Pradeep M. K.4
ECE Dept., YIT,
Moodbidri, India4
Abstract— this paper presents a prototype model of a shoe and traditional mobility aids for persons with visual
pair, which works on GPS and RFID technology to provide impairments are the walking cane (also called white cane or
assistance to the blind people. Blindness, low vision, visual stick) and guide dogs. The drawbacks of these aids are range
impairment and vision loss have dramatic impacts on individuals of motion and very little Information conveyed. With the rapid
experiencing such disabilities. This blindness affects their advances of modern technology, both in hardware and
Activities of Daily Living and navigation. This prototype will software front have brought potential to provide intelligent
guide the blinds to reach their destination safely. And they can navigation capabilities. Recently there has been a lot of
become more self-reliant. Electronic Travel Aids (ETA) designed and devised to help
the blind people to navigate safely and independently. Also
Keywords—RFID Technology; GPS; Blind pearson; shoes; high-end technological solutions have been introduced
navigation. recently to help blind persons navigate independently. The IR
sensor and buzzer will not give accurate result to the blind
I. INTRODUCTION people, this is the main drawback of previous project, in
previous project IR sensor are the object detecting sensor, the
Blindness, low vision, visual impairment and vision
problem associated with these reasons and less efficiency and
loss have dramatic impacts on individuals experiencing such
loss the accuracy to detect object and one more problem is it
disabilities. These carry with them physiological,
will not provide clean information to blind people.
psychological, social, and economic outcomes, hence
impacting the quality of life and depriving such individuals
from performing many of the Activities of Daily Living III. METHODOLOGY
(ADL), the most crucial of which is navigation and mobility.
This project presents a prototype model and a system
Blindness is a qualitative term that describes the
concept to provide a smart electronic aid for blind people. This
clinical condition whereby individuals have no light
system is intended to provide overall measures object
perception as a result of total vision loss. Blindness also refers
detection, and real-time Assistance via Global Positioning
to those who have so little vision that they have to rely
System. The system consists of microcontroller, ultrasonic
predominantly on other senses as vision substitution skills. On
sensor, RFID, GPS and vibratory circuit. This project aims at
the other hand, visual impairments is a qualitative term used
the development of an Electronic Travelling Aid (ETA) kit to
when the condition of vision loss is characterized by a loss of
help the blind people to find obstacle free path. This ETA is
visual functions at the organ level, such as the loss of visual
fixed to the shoe. When the object is detected near to the shoe
acuity or the loss of visual field.
and if any person coming in front it alerts them with the help
II. PROBLEM STATEMENT AND FORMULATION of vibratory circuit and also in advancement with help of
speakers or head phones that is voice command.
Artificial Vision is the most important part of human
physiology as 83% of information human being gets from the
environment is via sight. The statistics by the World Health
Organization (WHO) in 2014 estimates that there are 285
billion people in world with visual impairment, 39 billion of
people which are blind and 246 with low vision. The oldest
IV. SYSTEM DESIGN V. ADVANTAGES
 By implementing the proposed system all the blind

A. Working Mechanism
people will have benefit of this.
This project is intended to be developed as tool or aid  By using this system the dependency on others is
that will help blind people in moving or travelling. The reduced and the blind people can become more self-
dependency on others is reduced and these people can become reliant.
More self-reliant. The project is built around ARDUINO  Proposed system will help the blind people for their
Lilypad controller. guidance in absence of other people in need.
 This can be done in cost efficient and provides quick
response to the person who is wearing.
VI. CONCLUSION
We would like to conclude that the proposed system
completed successfully. As we stated earlier in a problem
statement, the previous problem like a less information
conveyed, poor efficiency of IR sensor and dependency on
stick are overcome and successfully implemented with
efficiency of object detection and with clear information to a
blind people for their guidelines. Would like to conclude that
the proposed system completed successfully. As we stated
earlier in a problem statement, the previous problem like a less
information conveyed, poor efficiency of IR sensor and
Fig1: Block diagram of GPS Guided Blind Shoes dependency on stick are overcome and successfully
implemented with efficiency of object detection and with clear
The project has features to detect obstacles using
information to a blind people for their guidelines.
ultrasonic module. These sensors are mounted on the shoes of
the blind person. The person is alerted and will information on
the surroundings. Vibration is used to alert the blind person if VII. FUTURE SCOPE
there are any obstacles in his path. RFID and GPS are used to  Future work will be focused on enhancing the
get the location information. performance of the system and reducing the load on
the user by adding the camera to guide the blind
B. Process Flow exactly.
The system uses ATMega328p microcontroller,  Images acquired by using web camera and NI-smart
where it contains the predefined coordinates. Once the system cameras helps in identification of objects as well as
is on, the following process takes place. scan the entire instances for the presence of number
The process is processed as shown in the below of objects in the path of the blind person.
flowchart figure 2. After turning on the system or the ETA kit,  It can also detect the material and shape of the object.
all the modules get turned on. The ultrasonic sensor senses for  Matching percentage has to be nearly all the time
obstacles, concurrently GPS provides coordinates, if it correct as there no chance for correction for a blind
matches with the database stored in the microcontroller person if it is to be trusted and reliable one.
produces a voice reply. If any RFID tag found also provides a  The principles of mono pulse radar can be utilized for
voice reply. determining long range target objects. The other
scope may include a new concept of optimum and
safe path detection based on neural networks for a
blind person.
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[1] S.Gangwar (2013) designed a smart stick for blind which

can give early warning of an obstacle using Infrared (IR)
sensors, “A Smart Infrared Microcontroller-Based Blind
Guidance System”, Hindawi Transactions on Active and
Passive Electronic Components,Vol.3, No.2, pp.1-7, June
2013.
[2] S.Chew (2012) proposed the smart white cane, called
Blind spot that combines GPS technology, “Electronic
Path Guidance for Visually Impaired People”, The
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Fig 2: Flowchart of GPS Guided Shoes Vol.2, No.4, pp.9-12, April 2012
[3] Benjamin etal (2014), Mrs. Shimi S. L. and Dr. [4] Central Michigan University (2009) developed an
S.Chatterji, “Design of microcontroller based Virtual Eye electronic cane for blind people “A Review on Obstacle
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 By implementing the proposed system all the blind

[1] S.Gangwar (2013) designed a smart stick for blind which

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