Internet of Things (IoT) based Object Recognition Technologies

Over the past years, the Object recognition technologies have matured to a great extent, where it has enabled the development of exciting solutions for visually impaired. A variety of solutions has been proposed using computer vision and object recognition to help the visually impaired with their day-to-day activities. This paper aims at the development of a solution that can be adopted by the visually impaired for identifying and locating household objects in their daily life. The solution includes a wearable device that listens for the user's voice, understands the user's command and locates the object in the surrounding environment. Once the target object is located, it gives user the information about the object and the maximum possible distance of the object from the user. The performance of the device has been increased and the battery consumption has been decreased by adopting an efficient algorithm that makes the device usable in day-to-day life.