LOCATION

FINDING FOR
BLIND PEOPLE
USING SMART
NAVIGATION
STICK
Current Problem
■ Over 285 million people are visually impaired worldwide: 39
million of them being blind and 246 million have low vision.

■ About 90% of the world’s visually impaired live in

developing countries.

■ The blind traveler should depend on any other guide like

blind cane, people information, trained dogs, etc.
Introduction

■ The system facilitates blind people to navigate independently

without any external help by means of talkative assistance.

■ The system is linked with a GSM-GPS module to pin-point the

location of the blind person and to establish a two-way
communication path in a wireless fashion.

■ The system is equipped with obstacle sensors such as SONAR and

Infrared sensor to alert the blind person.
Existing System
■ Blind Cane
– Awkwardness.
– Recognition of obstacles up to knee level.
– Does not protect from obstacles at torso and face level.
– Prone to injuries.
■ Trained Guide Dogs
– Expensive to Train Dogs (40 –60K).
– Training period on an average 6 months.
– Difficulty in dog up-keeping costs and lifestyle changes.
■ Human Guide
– Dependency.
– Feeling of being a burden.
Proposed System
■ The main components of the smart navigation stick are:
1. GPS
2. GPRS
3. Microcontroller – ESP32 (Onboard BLE & WiFi)
4. Obstacle Sensors:
a) 3 * Ultrasonic Sensor
b) 2 * IR Sensor
c) Panic Switch
5. Smartphone Application
Proposed Architecture

CLOUD

Mobile Network

Medical Emergency
Service
Block Diagram
Cloud

GPRS

3 * Sonar
Sensors
OLED
SCREEN
2 * Infrared Dashboard
Microcontroller/
Microprocessor OLED
Panic Switch SCREEN

GPS
Project Features

■ Accurate detection of obstacles of Left, Right & Front side.

■ BLE and Wi-Fi Connectivity
■ Low Powered and Battery operated
■ Remote monitoring
■ Low Cost
Hardware required

■ ESP32/ CC3300
■ Sonar sensor, Infrared Sensor, GPS, GPRS
■ OLED Display
■ Panic Switch
■ Power Supply (5V DC) / Battery
Software required

■ Programming language – C / Python

■ Tool – Keil, Proteus, EasyEDA
■ Protocol – MQTT / HTTP
■ Cloud – Amazon AWS / Google Firebase
■ Web – HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap
Advantages

■ Auto Detection & Auto Alarming

■ Very Low Powered Consumption
■ Low Cost
■ Detection of Ground Level
■ High Performance
Disadvantages

■ Security and privacy

■ Risk of failure
■ Not Waterproof
■ No Recognition of Object
Conclusion

This system is smart navigation system for visually impaired

person. This will help user for outdoor navigation using GPS
receiver, obstacle detection by ultrasonic sensor. This system will
work according to map of location. It will be used specially in big
industries, offices, shopping mall or college campus which is
unknown to Visually Impaired Person.
References
■ Ultrasonic Blind Stick for Completely Blind People to Avoid Any Kind of Obstacles Arnesh Sen ; Kaustav Sen ; Jayoti Das 2018 IEEE
SENSORS Year: 2018 | Conference Paper | Publisher: IEEE

■ Ultrasonic Sensor Based Smart Blind Stick Naiwrita Dey ; Ankita Paul ; Pritha Ghosh ; Chandrama Mukherjee ; Rahul De ; Sohini Dey
2018 International Conference on Current Trends towards Converging Technologies (ICCTCT) Year: 2018 | Conference Paper |
Publisher: IEEE

■ Smart Walking Stick for Blind Integrated with SOS Navigation System Saurav Mohapatra ; Subham Rout ; Varun Tripathi ; Tanish
Saxena ; Yepuganti Karuna 2018 2nd International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Informatics (ICOEI) Year: 2018 |
Conference Paper | Publisher: IEEE

■ Autonomous walking stick for the blind using echolocation and image processing Akhilesh Krishnan ; G Deepakraj ; N Nishanth ; K.
M. Anandkumar 2016 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Computing and Informatics (IC3I) Year: 2016 | Conference
Paper | Publisher: IEEE

■ https://circuitdigest.com/microcontroller-projects/arduino-smart-blind-stick

■ https://www.tomsonelectronics.com/products/buy-smart-blind-stick-using-arduino-diy-kit-online-india
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 IOT BASED ELECTRICAL
DEVICE SURVEILLANCE AND
CONTROL SYSTEM
Content

■ Introduction
■ Literature Survey
■ Block Diagram
■ Methodology
■ Hardware Required
■ Software Required
■ Advantages and Disadvantages
■ Conclusion
■ References
Introduction
with every enhancement in Internet in terms of speed and bandwidth, IOT
(Internet Of things) is taking the market on a new node and knocking the
door with new opportunities of inventions. This paper talks about an
energy saving electrical device Surveillance and Control system based on
IOT.A large amount of energy is consumed by lighting appliances, so
making improved efficiency and quick fault detection is a significant
challenge. In this work, two different model approaches is followed
depending on the nature of application. For small areas or confined
premises IEEE 802.11 wireless technology is used where all the
appliances is connected to a common Wi-Fi network. In the second model
like street lamp pole where number of appliances grows only in one
direction, wired configuration is used to avoid range issue.
Literature Survey
■ Majority of the street lamps have used LDR based control
system [6] which turns on the street lights in night and turns off
the street lights in day. Street lamp or the on premise light system
still consumes lotof electricity when there are few vehicles
around or no people in the office, as the new design is better in
providing the option to manually monitor and control through
mobile or web based portal. Simultaneously, providing feedback
of the faulty devices through sensors to the concerned authority
to quickly fix the issue may be convenient to the end user.
Block Diagram Cloud

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Current Sensor LCD Display Dashbaord

Voltage Sensor
Microcontroller

Device with
Modbus
Methodology

■ As mentioned earlier the whole system is divided in two categories.

• On premise System - It consists of street lamps, sensors to detect flow of current,
relay to control the on/off of the device and a 5 v power supply converter and
node MCU at the slave end (electrical device). Sensors are used to control
electrical appliance and send the analog signal of the environment to the system
and perform the related task.
• One directional - This is the case of traffic street lamps [11] which grow in
number in one direction. So this is different from the on premise as here we have
challenge of communication range. As wireless connection range (router or Node
MCU) is in meters, so it is not possible to use in cases where Wi Fi connection is
require in Kilometers.
Hardware Required

 ESP8266
 ACS712
 Voltage sensor
 LCD – 16 x 2
 Device with Modbus connectivity
Software Required

 Arduino IDE
 Arduino C Language
 Protocol – HTTP and MQTT
 ThingSpeak cloud
 Web - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap
Advantages

 Reduced Errors
 Decreased costs
 Remote monitoring & remote Controlling
Disadvantages

 Security & Privacy.

 Internet connectivity Required.
 System can be hack by Hacker
Conclusion

■ This IOT based device surveillance and control system is exclusively used to
keep surveillance on the electrical devices working condition and also to
control the on/off functionality from a central remote location. The designed
system works efficiently for both indoor and outdoor lighting. On the one
hand it improves efficiency of the system by sending alert signal in case of
any defect and on the other hand it drastically reduces the electric energy
consumption by providing central control over the appliances. The graphical
App based mobile controlling gives a user friendly and easily accessible
platform to the user. This system can be installed as energy efficient system to
control street lamp that requires a lot of energy and needs manual intervene.
References

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Jaypee University of Information Technology .Himachal Pradesh, 3.
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Body Sensor Network” IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 16, no. 5, March 1, 2016,IEEE 1558-1748 © 2015 IEEE.
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