Wearable IoT Technology: Unveiling the Smart Hat

Nowadays, a lot of peoples are having disorder known as visual impairment in which eyes cannot see objects in normal view. According to WHO, at least 2.2 billion peoples are suffering from the visual impairment and more than 30 million are permanently blind. Due to which they need guidance to travel somewhere otherwise they can't walk. Risky conditions arise when visually challenged people need to identify the items in front of them while crossing the roads. However, the technology gets advanced rapidly in the past few years but there is no budget-friendly way to improve the visual defect for the blind people. The development of smart hat is the primary goal of the project to help the blind people. In this project, ultrasonic sensors serve as the input device and buzzers as the output as the feedback to the user. Smart Blind walking hat has potential to enhance the lifestyle of the visually impaired persons in the society.