Scientists in the third week of Nov 2016 developed a new smart cane to help transform the lives of the blind and visually impaired by enabling them to sense obstacles beyond the physical length of their walking stick
Smart cane is named
“mySmartCane”.
Inventor: Vasileios Tsormpatzoudis.
It works as a common car parking sensor.
The ultrasonic ball in the cane wirelessly measures the distance towards the approaching objects. It converts this data into an audio signal.
Visually impaired users can assess the distance of the object from the frequency of the sound before the cane reaches an object.
It is fixed with 3D printing and cheap sensors.
An ultrasonic sensory ball is attached to the bottom of the most existing white canes.
