PARTHA: A Visually Impaired Assistance System

Blindness is very common and unendurable disability among many disabilities. According to the World Health Organization(WHO), there are 285 million visually impaired people [1]. The proposed VI (Visually Impaired) Assistant System is developed to assist the visually impaired people have four modules which are obstacle recognition, obstacle avoidance, indoor and outdoor navigation, and real-time location sharing. The proposed system is a combination of smart glove and smart-phone application which works fine in the low light level also. The smart glove as a part of the proposed solution is used to detect and avoid obstacles and to enable visually impaired people to identify the world around them. The smart-phone-based obstacle and object detection is used to detect various objects in the surrounding. The system also provides seamless indoor navigation implemented using available Wi-Fi access points. The system also provides security to the blind via real-time location sharing in an outdoor environment. Our proposed system is reliable, affordable, practical and feasible.