Design a Smart Cane for Visually Impaired Individuals’ Assistance

Abstract

Recent years have seen the raise of new technologies to assist physically challenged people. Blind individuals’ assistance is constantly improving thanks to scientists’ and engineers’ efforts to suit the users’ needs. The new technologies comprise different gadget, software and prototypes, some of which are available on the market or still in research and development process. This paper explores some of the technologies available to this date with their features and proposes a new solution.