Abstract
People with challenged vision (both permanent and temporary) face several difficulties in their everyday life. A person having visual impairment may not differentiate between colors, which is an essential part of work in several industries such as Ready Made Garments (RMG) sector where sorting cloths based on color is essential. This work represents a more improved version of our previous work which was a demonstration of a talking color detecting device for blind people. Obstacle facing and fall occurrence are very important issues for visually challenged person that are addressed in this chapter. The proposed device uses the latest hardware components including upgraded Central Processing Unit (CPU) and sensors for IoT and cloud-based architecture that can detect color and obstacle efficiently. Moreover it gives notification regarding color and obstacle in multiple languages to visually challenged person. The device also sends fall notification through internet to the caretaker of the visually impaired user in case of fall detection, which is an added key feature of this work.
Keywords
- Alert generation
- Cloud server
- Color detection
- Disability
- Fall detection
- IoT Assistive Device
- Multilingual
- Obstacle avoidance
- Ready Made Garments (RMG)
- Vision impairment
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Rashid, H. et al. (2022). Assistive Technology Strategy: Wearable Multi-Lingual Blind Technology for Persons with Impairment and Eye-Sight Disability Based on IoT and Cloud. In: Pathan, AS.K. (eds) Towards a Wireless Connected World: Achievements and New Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04321-5_6
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