Design and construction of a smart shoe system for obstacle detection using ultrasonic sensor.

Abstract

Sight is considered to be the most important sense and the blind people are observed upon with pity by others. Technology helps the blind people to communicate with the environment, the communication process and the dissemination of information has become very fast on a wider scale to include all parts of the world that greatly affect the human life thus increasing the ways of entertainment and comfort and reduced suffering and hardship in many things. Technology has to include them too despite the fact that earlier they had been helped by particular hardware devices such as color identification, barcode readers and others. Major challenge experienced was that those hardware devices were expensive and thus few could afford. In this project the main aim is to boost the blind people with a hand, with the aid of this system in order to solve some of their faced problems. The application results enhance the understanding of the problems facing blind people daily, and may help encourage more projects targeted to help blind people to live independent in their daily lives. The system is economic and can be easily accessed by many in need.