Wearable Object Detection System for People with Blindness and IoT Monitoring (#1287)

Authors

Aguilar-Amador, Claudia Stefany

Reyes-Duke, Alicia María

Abstract

As technology advances, a wide variety of devices that aim to help people who suffer from blindness have been developed, since most of the time when this people leave their homes, they tend to be exposed to accidents if they do not have the necessary aid. Therefore, at present, devices have been created either with the objective of leisure such as products that read texts to individuals, also devices made to facilitate the movement of users such as those that make use of sensors or artificial vision and machine learning, even devices that have the objective of monitoring a blind person in case of emergencies, among others. At the same time, the cost of these new technological products is increasing, leading to an increase in the price of the devices used by blind people. This proposed system allows blind people to have access to a portable and affordable device, which informs them by vibrations if there are obstacles in front using ultrasonic sensors. Through a Wi-Fi module and making use of the IoT, acquaintances of the disabled person will be able to monitor their surroundings in live stream or through pictures.