International Conference on Innovative Computing And Communication (ICICC-2020)

IoT Based Shoe Eye Strewing New–fangled Vision for Visually Impaired
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Dr. Rajdeep Chowdhury 1, Sukhwant Kumar 2, Shubham Suman 3 and Anupama Manna 4

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Academician and Author, Chinsurah, Hooghly–712101, West Bengal, India
* Corresponding Author Email – dujon18@yahoo.co.in
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Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani, Nadia–741235, West Bengal, India

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Student, School of Computer Science Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Deemed to be University, Odisha, India

Abstract:
Civilization is having hasty progression amid technical accentuation and is certainly altering the duds into the potentials. Copious trials and

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predicament at bay, were supposed to be static, but contemporary investigators have ensured simplification with utmost ease. The formulated
work epitomizes the technological surety for barrier break of prior challenges. IoT is imminent and has immense authority to unravel numerous
societal problems. The formulated work intends to exhibit the manner in which IoT could aid visually impaired people to alter their sustenance
and overwhelm unwanted adversities.
The work emphases on designing a device for visually impaired people that would assist them to traverse autonomously, with effortlessness.
Being unaware of information about alignment and positioning with respect to impediment on the way, internally as well as externally, the IoT
Based Shoe Eye would ensure vigilance for the visually impaired people and would be attentive in ensuring the same.
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The shoe has been designed with precision for visually impaired people. The shoe comes with an assortment of ultrasonic sensors, water sensors,
lights, speaker and GPS module. The shoe performs as a guide for the blind people.
It would preserve the person from impediments on way and would declare an alert voice output through the speaker. The GPS kit would aid the
family members of the visually impaired person to keep track over him. Hence, in the comparable manner, IoT could be a technological modus
operandi that could alter the lifespan of a visually impaired person with utmost ease and strew happiness all the way, ensuring societal impact in
the long way.
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Keywords:

Shoe Eye, IoT, GPS, Water Sensors, Ultrasonic Sensors, Visually Impaired Person.
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1. Introduction Jiffy of hardware or element framework, irrespective of whether obtained

industrially, reformed or utilized to augment, keep up or expand applied
Abundant individuals experience the unkind bearing of candid visual capacities of individual with incapacities.
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incapacities, which preserve them from exploring effortlessly. Identically,
they need to employ an extensive opportunity of apparatuses and trials to
assist them in their resourcefulness. The mounting numeral of visually
impaired people attracts the progression of plentiful assistive gadgets
around the orb [1, 2, 3, 4].
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Perhaps the utmost thoughtful matter the visual incapacitated individuals
face is while journeying, inwards and outwards. The novelty employed in
the formulated work furnishes a response for externally debilitated
individuals. The job is accomplished by the aid of IoT which encompasses
the shoes fitted with ultrasonic sensors that alarm externally debilitated

In India, 8 out of 39 million people are visually impaired. Besides, in a
million, 53,000 individuals are externally impeded, 46,000 individuals
have less vision and 6800 individuals have total vision misfortune, that is,
visually impaired [1, 4].
Likewise, according to the current dimension, just 5% of them approach
any kind of assistive innovation. "Assistive Innovation" alludes to
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individuals over obstacles and hindrances, separating their ways and assist
them in strolling with diminishing misfortunes. Moreover, the shoe is able
to trace the existing location of the concerned individual [5, 6].
The work in concern would endow with optimum solutions for the
individuals who feel awkward in strolling around on interpretation of the
dread they have had while strolling prior because of interruptions and

anything. hindrances they might have come across.

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3. Proposed Work
2. Literature Review

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3.1 Hardware Requirement
The section deals with the essence of the preceding findings related to the
formulated work and comprehensive analysis of the same for prospective
upshot. 1. Arduino Uno

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2. GPS Module
3. Water Sensor
2.1 Ultrasonic Sensor Based Smart Blind Stick 4. Ultrasonic Sensor
5. Speaker
The paper emphases on design of an ultrasonic sensor–based walking 6. Battery
stick. It is principally for visually impaired person. It could be employed 7. Connecting Wire
as a navigation tool for blind individual. The applied structure could sense
any obstacle within the range of 5 to 35 cm. Nevertheless, on identifying

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an obstacle in the path, the smart blind stick engenders a buzzer sound
which gives an indication.

2.2 Low Cost Ultrasonic Smart Glasses for Blind

The paper depends on a couple of glasses and an impediment location

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module fitted centrally, a handling unit, an output gadget, that is, a
signalling segment and a power supply. The glass guides the blind people
and aids them to evade impediments. It is realized as an image recognition
where sensor gives information about the object. It aids to make the blind
people conscious about any accident at bay.

2.3. Low Cost Ultrasonic–based Shoe for Visually Impaired People

The paper emphases on incapacitating all the confines of visually

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Fig.1 Proposed Design from Hardware Requirement Perspective
impaired person. The paper principally offers a design of an ultrasonic–
based blind shoe which includes light dependent resistor. It is effective in
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bright as well as dark locations. It comprises of numerous hardware Aforementioned Fig. 1 is the schematic illustration of the shoe heart
components such as Arduino Uno, Ultrasonic Sensor, Light Dependent
which makes the shoe dissimilar from usual shoes. Here, the shoe
Resistor, Voltage Converter, etc. The projected notion overwhelms apiece
comprises of an Arduino Uno, Ultrasonic Sensor, Water Sensor, Speaker,
confines and crafts an exclusive object for the people.
GPS and GSM Kit. Initially, the ultrasonic sensors are mounted on the
shoe, which sends signal and when it discovers any kind of obstacle, it
2.4. Assistance for Visually Impaired People based on Ultrasonic reports to the Arduino board which matches to the code and furnishes a
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Navigation
The paper is based on furnishing an obstacle recognition mode and fixed
path mode for visually impaired people. The information about the
obstacle is directed to the blind person through a voice mode on his
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message accordingly from the speaker to alert the visually impaired
person. Furthermore, there is water sensor embedded in the shoe, which
alerts the person if any water bodies are found on the way. Next are the
GPS and the GSM Kit, which turns out to be the game changer as it traces
the geographical location and sends it to the family members of the

android phone via Bluetooth device. The second mode furnishes an

visually impaired individual. Hence, the shoe has the competence to act as
immobile route to the person from the commencement point to the
culmination point, with aid of GPS. an eye for such especially abled individuals.
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4. Result Analysis
The section comprises of Table 1 demonstrating Parameter Comparison 5. Conclusion
Based on User Survey pertaining to a comprehensive survey followed by

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graphical depiction through User Based Survey Comparison Chart. The aforementioned perception almost thumps apiece restraint that were
visible in prior investigations and researches. The previous issues had
abridged data passed on, deprived proficiency of IR sensor and

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intensifying reliance on stick. Hence, the shoe comes up as a radical and
Table 1. Parameter Comparison Table Based on User Survey accommodating product which could transform the sustenance of
numerous visual impaired people. Subsequently, it tends to infer that the
undertaking could play an unusual assurance to the state of the
workmanship and would assume an implausible job to aid the blind
individuals to walk without any hindrance and mental trauma.
IoT Based Shoe Eye has commenced to strew new–fangled vision for
visually impaired individuals, ensuring societal evolution.

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Fig. 2 User Based Survey Comparison Chart
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This preprint research paper has not been peer reviewed. Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3589970