Assistive Helmet for Visually Impaired Human Beings

The presence of visually impaired people around the globe has greatly increased due to many factors that affects the overall health of a person. In such way, this article reviews the current state of technology and aims a new way to help the people in question. It presents an assistive helmet that incorporates three essential features for the blind people to regain their selfconfidence through independent mobility and with all these, maintaining a low cost making it affordable for the majority. The features early mentioned are Obstacle Avoidance which will guide the person without being hurt by any sudden obstacles, Fall Detection which will produce a strident sound and light signals in order the person to be helped and, lastly, Track Monitoring which is responsible to record the path the user took.