2016-2017-FAER 2017 PUBLIC VEHICLE ACCESS SYSTEM FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED USING NFC APPLICATION

Winners of FAER – McAfee Scholar Awards Program : 2016-2017

Abstract

In the past there have been similar research efforts to develop embedded systems to alleviate similar problems. The Talking Signs identification system consists of NFC transmitters incorporated in the destination panels of buses that transmit route information. Since, an NFC beam is highly directional, the visually challenged user must point the handheld receiver towards the transmitter. Hence, NFC technology is used. This project demonstrates the concept of bus detection system by the blind people using NFC. In which the blind people having NFC reader with PIC16F887A microcontroller module which gives the voice analyzer sound whenever the specific bus comes, the bus is equipped with NFC tag. Whenever bus comes at bus stop the blind person who is provided with NFC reader get signal as it reads tag. In our proposed project we are using PIC16F887A based microcontroller, which the current dominant microcontroller. NFC reader is connected to microcontroller based embedded board and a program is running which will analyses tag data the bus. The project successfully delivered a functional prototype that uses intuitive hands-free voice recognition technology. In addition, the client server approach enables much of the processing to be undertaken in rather than on the user’s hardware.