DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SMART STICK AID FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE USING YOLO V3 ALGORITHM

This paper proposes Raspberry Pi based Smart Stick Aid for visually-impaired people, which helps a person by detecting the obstacles using different sensors and Raspberry Pi. Using speaker, the blind person knows about the circumstances & present condition of the path where they are walking. The issues of blind people can be addressed with the intervention of technology. The methodology employs the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm to provide a medium between the blind and the environment. It uses sensor like ultrasonic sensor and moisture sensor to detect obstacles in front of a person. It is based on ultrasonic sensor for distance measurement. Also, there is voice playback which helps to mention a direction of obstacles around a visually Impaired person by the help of sensors. We have used WiFi in stick to locate the visually Impaired people.