IOT enabled Smart Blind Stick and Spectacles Mountable Eye-Piece equipped with Camera for Visually Challenged People

Environmental awareness and navigating to places are the daunting problems faced by the visually challenged people (VCPs). There exists technology to aid them with specific activities. The solution proposed in this paper will aid them in mobility - a blind walking stick along with a first person perspective live stream system using a camera enabled eye-piece. This eye-piece is mounted on the spectacles of the visually challenged person(user). Obstacles are identified by sensors, and the alerts are given to the user via vibrations, and an audio feedback using object detection algorithm on live feed from the eye-piece. The GPS enabled stick discerns the user's current location in form of global co-ordinates which is published and visualized using a website. With the assistance of this portable technology, an attempt to improve VCP's quality of life by helping them in escalating environmental awareness is made, which ultimately boosts their level of confidence in unfamiliar areas.