Author : Rupali Kale and A. P. Phatale

Till date blind people struggle a lot to live their miserable life. Their problems have made them to lose their hope to live in this competing society. They seek help from others to guide them whole day. This project aims to make the blind person fully independent in all aspects. The proposed system is based on Global Positioning System (GPS) and Obstacle detection and object avoidance technologies .The aim of the overall system is to provide a low cost and efficient navigation aid for blind which gives a sense of artificial vision by providing information about the environment scenario of static and dynamic object around them.

Keywords: GPS module, Microcontroller, GSM module, Speech IC, Ultrasonic sensors.

Article published in International Journal of Current  Engineering  and Technology, Vol.4,No.3 (June- 2014)