SmartBlind – The Blind Stick

Problem – (Social Inclusion)

There are over 67,061 deaths every year

due to the accidents of blind people . But
is there anything that can prevent this ?
There is a solution – SmartBlind , a stick
that works like eyes of a blind persons
 Objective
The objective of this project is to assist the blind person with
obstacle free walk when stepping out – be it on roads, malls, or
even elevators.
The features of SmartBlind Stick are –
1. It can detect obstacles in front of it
2. It can detect stairs and elevated surfaces
3. It can also detect if it is day/night , because the risk of
accident is more for a blind person at nights.
4. It also has an emergency button which one pressed gives a
notification to the person’s family if the person is in trouble.
5. Detect humans and prevent from hitting them
 Research
Our team researched a lot while making this project . This is what
we researched
1. Researching for low-cost , high accuracy components.
2. Researching for ideas to make the stick more compact.
3. Reading papers for ways to measure elevation using
ultrasonic sensors .
Components Used
HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor
( To detect obstacles and elevations )
 LDR Module
( To detect day /night depending on the light
intensity )
 HC-05 Bluetooth Module
(Uses Bluetooth -2.0 technology to connect
to a Bluetooth enabled device )
 ISD 1820 Voice Recording Module
( Used to record the voice message which is
played on a speaker )
 Piezo Buzzer Push Button
( Alarm tone if elevation or ( Working as emergency button to
night time is detected ) send panic message to the family )
Arduino Uno
PIR MOTION SENSOR
5 WATT SPEAKER
Resistors and LED’s
 Softwares Used

MIT App Inventor Arduino IDE

Circuit Diagram
Working of the circuit
 Ultrasonic A voice pre-
Sensor 1 and 2 recorded on the
detect obstacles isd1820 is played

Ultrasonic
Piezo buzzer
Sensor 3
buzzes a sharp
detects
elevation tone

LDR Sensor detects The piezo buzzer

light intensity is plays after every 1
low and detects it second
as night
 The other
Bluetooth
app checks
module
The app the
Emergency receives
inserts the database , if
Button is signal and
message into message is
pressed sends a
the database there then
message to
gives a
the app
notification
 PIR SENSOR Arduino
Human is
sends signal to activates 5
detected
arduino watt speaker
 Cost
The prototype (including stick cost)
costs approximately Rs 2900.
An affordable stick as a life saver for
a blind person!
 Cost
The prototype costs around 2200
rupees , and with the stick the cost
is 2500 rupees. With such a minimal
cost anyone can afford it !