AUDIO

GUIDANCE FOR
BLINDS
Under the Guidance of :
HEMA. S.R
Project associates:
Ashish S R
Deepak B
Raksha R S
Rashmi A M
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OVERVIEW

Introduction
Existing solutions
Objective
Working principle
Block diagram
Hardware components
Software components
Result
conclusion

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INTRODUCTION

There are approximately 12 million blind or visually impaired

people in the India alone.

Currently most blind people rely on other people, dogs, and their
canes to find their way in buildings.

Many disabled people prefer to do things independently rather

than rely on others.

The Audio Guidance For Blinds can provide a solution to this

problem

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EXISTING SOLUTIONS

Smart Canes provide obstacle detection.

Sonar vision glasses also may provide obstacle detection.

GPS navigation systems provide directions, but not reliable or

accurate enough for use in buildings.

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OBJECTIVE

The main goal of the project is to provide a cost- effective

solution to allow blind people to navigate within building.

The Audio Guidance System hopes to allow visually impaired

users to simply speak the desired destination, and be guided there
with the use of audio instructions.

The system hopes to provide a portable unit that can easily be

carried and operated by a visually impaired user. It could easily be
incorporated into a walking cane.
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WORKING PRINCIPLE

The technique is used to determine the destination location by

using RFID.

In this technique unique RFID tag is assigned to each of the

locations inside the buildings such as steps, rooms, elevator, rest
room etc.

RFID reader continuously scans the tag and if the destination

code matches with that of present RFID code then the person has
reached his desired location.

If the code does not matches then the system has to guide him to
his destination location.
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WORKING FLOW

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BLOCK DIAGRAM

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COMPONENTS

HM-2007 Speech recognition kit

P89V51RD2 Micro controller

APR9600 module

EM-18 RFID Reader and Tags

Speaker or Headphone

LCD

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SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM

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HM2007 SPEECH RECOGNITION

MODULE

HM2007 is programmable, in the sense that programmer train the

words (or vocal utterances) as programmer want the circuit to
recognize.

In our project we are using HM2007 module to convert the voice

input given by the blind into binary codes which is required by
the micro-controller to scan the tags.

This module is connected to PORT 0 of microcontroller.

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HM-2007 SPEECH RECOGNITION

MODULE (CONTD..)
Specifications

Input Voltage - 9 to 15 V DC
Use a commonly available 12V
500ma DC Adapter.

Output Data - 8 bits at 5V

Logic Level.

Interface-Any microcontroller
like 8051, PIC or AVR can be
interfaced

to

data

port

interpret.
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P89V51RD2
MICROCONTROLLER
Features

80C51

CPU

with

5V

operating voltage from 0 to

40 MHz.

64 kB of on-chip flash user

code memory.

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Four 8-bit I/O ports.

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P89V51RD2
MICROCONTROLLER(CONTD..)

Three 16-bit timers/counters.

Programmable watchdog timer.

Eight interrupt sources with four priority levels.

Two DPTR register.

TTL- and CMOS-compatible logic levels.

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P89V51RD2
MICROCONTROLLER BLOCK
DIAGRAM

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LCD
Features :

JHD162A is the LCD

It has a Panel with 2 rows

and 16 columns.

Supply voltage Vdd = 5 v

Operating voltage

=1.5mA
Input voltage = 2.2 v
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Idd

APR 9600 MODULE FOR VOICE OUTPUT

Single-chip, high-quality voice recording & playback solution.

Non-volatile Flash memory technology

User-Selectable messaging options

User-friendly, easy-to-use operation.

Low power consumption.

Operating current: 25 mA typical
Standby current: 1 uA typical
Automatic power-down

Chip Enable pin for simple message expansion

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APR 9600 MODULE(CONTD..)

The APR9600 device offers

true

single-chip

recording,

voice

non-volatile

storage,

and

capability

for

playback
40

to

60

seconds.

The device supports both

random and sequential access
of multiple messages.
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Pin diagram
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APR 9600 MODULE

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RFID READER & TAGS

A basic RFID system consists of three components:

An antenna or coil.

A transceiver (with decoder).

A transponder (RF tag)

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RFID READER & TAGS

(CONTD..)

RFID Reader
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RFID READER &

TAGS(CONTD..)
ADVANTAGES OF RFID

No line of sight requirements

RFID tags can be read through materials without line of sight.

More automated reading and allowing more proactive, real-time

tracking.

Improved read rates

Greater data capacity

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SPEAKER

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SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION

Microcontroller needs to support all hardware components so to

make it supportive we use Keil software.

Keil provides the ease of writing the code in either C or

ASSEMBLY language.

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KEIL UVISION 2
This is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that
helps programmer to write, compile, and debug embedded
programs. It encapsulates the following components:

A project manager.

Tool conguration.

Editor.
A powerful debugger.
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CREATION OF NEW PROJECT

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SELECTING THE DEVICE

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CONFIGURING THE ESSENTIALS

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ADDITION OF FILES IN SOURCE

GROUP

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RUNNING THE PROGRAM

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CODE FLOW

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CODE FLOW (CONTD..)

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ADVANTAGES

As mentioned previously with 12 million visually impaired people in

INDIA alone,it would be smart for businesses to cater to their needs.

The use of RFID technology can help to do this at a lower cost than most
other technologies on the market today.

This system would give the visually impaired an opportunity to integrate

with society more easily. These people would have a greater sense of
independence.

The entire system can be miniaturized so that it will be easy to carry .

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DISADVANTAGES

Long range readers require more power and cost and RFID tag
reads and read ranges may be inconsistent.

Speech recognition may be problematic due to unwanted noise

and false reads.

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RESULT

Snap shot of prototype

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Blind person carrying final model

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CONCLUSION

The project clearly gives a good solution in the indoor environment

for blinds which is completely controlled by the microcontroller using
RFID technology.

This unit is user friendly and cost effective, thus the system urges on
non dependence of blinds on other people.

Hence the system could be implemented in blind schools and building

where blind people work, allowing the blinds for safe navigation .

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FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS

By making use of more sophisticated RFID tags with larger range

in the future an effective guidance system for blind can be
implemented.

Inside an organization the system can be implemented and

developed

so that

the central administrator can be able to

monitor the navigation of blind and can gain continuous access to

his location via LAN, GSM,etc.
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REFERENCES

The 8051 Microcontroller Architecture, Programming &

Applications, 2e Kenneth J.Ayala;,Penram International, 1996 /
Thomson Learning 2005.
The 8051 Microcontroller and Embedded Systems Using
Assembly and C, 2e,Muhammad Ali Mazidi, Janice Gillispie
Mazidi, Rolin Mckinaly.
files.spogel.com./abstracts/p-0212audio guidance for blind.pdf
http://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/embedded
systems/8051
microcontroller
http://en.mwikipedia.org/wiki/radio-frequency identification

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THANK YOU

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