Smart Cane: Assistive Cane for Visually-impaired People

TL;DR

This paper presents the development and testing of a Smart Cane that assists visually-impaired individuals by providing voice and vibration alerts about obstacles, aiming to improve walking confidence and safety.

Contribution

It introduces a novel assistive cane with integrated coding and physical components that effectively alerts users to obstacles through voice and vibration signals.

Findings

Smart Cane successfully alerts users about obstacles

The device functions as intended in tests

It enhances walking confidence for visually-impaired users

Abstract

This paper reports on a study that helps visually-impaired people to walk more confidently. The study hypothesizes that a smart cane that alerts visually-impaired people over obstacles in front could help them in walking with less accident. The aim of the paper is to address the development work of a cane that could communicate with the users through voice alert and vibration, which is named Smart Cane. T he development work involves coding and physical installation. A series of tests have been carried out on the smart cane and the results are discussed. This study found that the Smart Cane functions well as intended, in alerting users about the obstacles in front