Real Time Assistive Shoe for Visually Impaired People using IoT

Assistive technology has not yet reached an acceptable level of success in addressing the needs of visually impaired to navigate safely, comfortably, and independently. The proposed work addresses a prototype, real time assistive shoe designed and developed to facilitate safe navigation and mobility of visually impaired individuals. The prototype has been mounted with three pairs of ultrasonic sensors, PIR sensors and Infrared sensors, a moist sensor attached to bottom of the shoe that predicts the presence of water nearby, also detects objects at head level. The corresponding tactile outputs are provided by the buzzer with different type of sound and duration that is embedded in the shoe. It detects fall of the person as well and sends message along with location to the emergency contact. The developed shoe has been controlled by battery operation, cloud storage and involves use of IoT automation features too. The prototype helps in providing best offered track to the user within the kind of buzzer sound as an alert. The sensors square measure integrated with the shoe so the visually impaired cannot solely sight obstacles ahead of however, conjointly sight the presence of any major pits on the move. The proposed work results in enhancing the understanding of the issues faced by visually impaired in day-to-day basis that facilitates to move freelance in their daily lives.