RaahDarshani

Description

Problem

People who are visually impaired face no shortage of problems in India. Blind people use canes, but the traditional cane can't detect objects higher than the waist.

Solution

An IoT based solution to detect the proximity as well as the type of hurdle. The person while holding his mobile device records a video. It detects objects in real time and uses an IR sensor to detect the distance of the object. The application, according to this input, warns the user of the obstacle.

Tech Stack

• nodejs
• Arduino
• C++

APIs Used

• IBM Watson for object detection
• (say) for text-to-speech

Progress

• Right now we were able to implement the hardware solution. Our system is detecting that there is a obstacle in its path. Also our image detection is working properly. now we just need to take input for object detection and implement these two features together.