IoT based Wearable Glasses for Visually Impaired Users

The human eye is an organ that gives us the sense of sight. Visual impairment is one of the important issues to consider in the current environmental situation, as it has a major effect on human health. There are currently 39 million visually impaired people in the world. Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed devices into remote monitoring in the healthcare sector around the clock. An assistive technology involves the development of devices to meet the needs of people suffering with different disabilities. The prototype presented in this paper is an IoT-based wearable glasses for visually impaired users, which is developed to assist them to read the text from the picture available in front of them at a certain distance and converts it into audio, enabling the users to hear through earphones connected to the glasses. This prototype can also translate the English text captured from the image into another language of the user's choice. The proposed wearable glasses are equipped with a panic button to allow the visually impaired person to inform care providers about the location of the person in an emergency.