#smartvisionglasses

What is unique about the Smart Vision Glasses?

• Indian regional language support in addition to English for the blind in India

• Object detection feature that is not existent with the only other similar product in the world

• Proximity sensor coupled with artificial intelligence for increased safety

• Cost of the product is the most unique feature. It is priced low to facilitate affordability to the visually impaired India

• The only other similar product available is from Israel. However, it does not have the unique features of object detection, Hindi and Indian language support and additional safety offered by Smart Vision.

About Us

We apply technology innovation to problems that have social relevance. Our product SMART VISION GLASSES, a wearable device for the blind/visually impaired using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Vision, and Machine Learning. Our venture is based on life satisfaction approaches based on the number of blind and visually impaired who can benefit from the device that allows them to see virtually. We are passionate about assisting society with our innovative product, which is designed to bring a new companion into the lives of people with vision impairment.

About SMART VISION 

SMART VISION is an innovative, affordable, AI-powered assistive device for the visually impaired to enable them to live a dignified and independent life. The device is a wearable (head-mounted) device that can be attached to the side of a pair of eyeglasses. It is enabled with a camera with flash, Lidar (A remote sensing technology), Bluetooth microphone, and a small speaker. It connects to a smartphone where an AI-based app provides the “intelligence” to help the visually impaired “see” objects around them.

Features

• Plug and play

• Multiple Indian language support

• Audio tutorial (no printed manuals)

• Self-guided tutorial

• Page alignment and position of the document

• Panic button (msg to the loved one, with location, picture of surroundings)

• Currency detection (currently for Indian currencies)

Functions include:

Reading text - reads printed or handwritten text aloud in English and most common Indian languages. With this device, the visually impaired can read books in any language of their choice

Object recognition - Identifies objects and describes them audibly. The device guides them when they are walking in a public place like a neighboring street, way to school/college /work.

Walking assistant - Warns the wearer of obstacles in front of them

 Facial recognition - Describes people’s faces and expressions, and identifies faces previously “saved” by the wearer.

Voice recognition - the wearer can give voice commands to the device

Braille buttons - the wearer can select functions based on touch

It addresses the following uncorrectable visual impairments:

• Blindness from birth (39M)

• Severe Glaucoma (76M)

• Diabetic Retinopathy (146M)

• Age related Macular Degeneration (196M)

• Vision Loss due stroke (20% of stroke sufferers)

• Damage to optical nerves (infection, accidents) (40-48% of head injuries)   

 Product Development

Smart Vision was developed by a joint partnership of Vision-Aid, Aravind Eye Hospitals, and an Indian tech company called Smart Health Global, as a low-cost alternative for people in developing countries.

Affordable Pricing

The most significant aspect of Smart Vision is its affordability. Smart Vision is priced at Rs. 25,000 (approx.. USD $350) which is a fraction (less than 10%) of other similar products in the market today.

Product Roadmap

 There are multiple questions when we use the terminology SMART VISION GLASSES. How can glasses be Smart and have Vision too? Here are a few answers to the questions running through your mind.

 SMART VISION GLASSES is a wearable device for the blind/visually impaired using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Vision, and Machine Learning. The device has an electronic brain (artificial intelligence) that transforms their dark world into a more interactive, interesting, and independent world. They can read their favorite book, catch up with the news in magazines and newspapers, students can write their exams without scribes and so much more.

What does SMART VISION GLASSES mean for me?

Can I see things around me?

Can I read?

Can I recognize the world around me?

Does it help me identify objects and guide me?

If I say, YES. Will you believe me? SHG Technologies has indeed been working on this mission to provide SMART VISION GLASSES to all the people who are either blind/visually impaired. SHG Technologies was determined to provide the most affordable SMART VISION GLASSES that would enable any blind or visually impaired person to meet their basic needs and could reach most of the needy. 

Imagine a world of a blind person when he/she is wearing the SMART VISION GLASSES and experiences all kinds of objects in front of the device identified. A few objects are around us Outdoor - roads, lamp posts, zebra crossing, trees, and Indoors objects like windows, curtains, tables, laptops, mobiles, and bottles. The user gets familiar with their surroundings. A world that is very similar to the Common person. This is not a fantasy anymore with technology. Today, you have the opportunity to view the world as real as possible with technology.

That is not limited, further, it is possible to read. Unlike the bygone ages, you don’t need anyone to read your favorite newspapers. SMART VISION GLASSES is your Reading Assistance. It helps in reading text/manuscripts like printed books, handwritten, etc. Users can pause to understand the text, resume back to continue reading, and finally stop the flow of reading. You are now smarter than a normal person as this device supports English, Hindi & all Indian regional languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, and Gujarati. Reading assistance is accurate and reliable. 

Now that when you can recognize the objects around you and able to read with your SMART VISION GLASSES, we can think of more. Can you guess? 

What would happen when a blind/visually impaired person is walking? He can use his stick and put the steps very carefully. Imagine if some friend walks with you and guides you, won’t you be confident to put your footsteps more confident? confident That’s exactly what we wanted to fulfill and help you understand, that SMART VISION GLASSES from SHG TECHNOLOGIES is your best friend, and wanted to work your path by providing Walking Assistance

Safety is our number one priority. Walking Assistance simply detects if any obstacle is in front of the user by a method of measuring distance and hindrance. Timely voice alerts are given to the user's precaution.

While you started walking on your own, you can also greet your friends if they cross over using our features Facial Recognition. Not only does calling someone by their name connect you better with that person, but it also increases accountability, trust, empathy, and positive communication. Here we have Facial storage and Face recognition for the visually impaired. A facial recognition system is a technology capable of matching a human face from a stored facial database of faces. This is possible as we always believe in giving you the best. Technology has enabled us to give you the real world as much as possible.

Why should someone not talk about Technology, when it comes to seeing the world without anyone's support? SHG Technologies works with Visually Impaired People to understand their difficulties and come up with solutions to make them less dependent on anyone.

Recently there was a very small incident, that inspires me to pen down the #SMART#VISION #GLASSES, developed by SHG Technologies.  For the Blind, the only hope is to see the world with their eyes. Eyes could be given physically or with AI. Today AI has been making wonders. It can replace normalcy with data. Artificial Intelligence(AI) could be the best dude for any kind of disability. 

SHG Technologies are the only company in India that provides SMARTVISION GLASSES, using Artificial Intelligence(AI). It has step-by-step guiding tutors to make any Visually Impaired person to read, walk, recognize and guide them. A guiding voice that processes very quickly to help the Visually challenged people to act immediately or recognize the objects as early as possible. 

There are many firms, foundations, and CSR activities, that help Visually Impaired or Blind people for getting back their vision. SHG Technologies' main objective is to reach such organizations to enable their services. It is always not possible to find eyes for blind or Visually impaired people or partially challenged Vision. But, you could always depend on the technology that is tested on MILLIONS of Visually challenged people and helped them to meet their requirements. The SMART VISION GLASSES has improved over some time and commits to keeping improving till all the challenges of a Visually Impaired person are met. 

You can buy the SMART VISION GLASSES from many outlets or call for help on SHG Technologies PVT LTD. We always have a support team who would walk-in into your location and give you entire training on the usage of SMART VISION GLASSES. You don’t have to wait for any more to see the world … We are here to help you and show the world with TECHNOLOGY!

The Statistics presented by Research Gate on the Estimation of blindness in India from 2000 through 2020:

We used these population-based data to estimate blindness in India in 2000 and project the possible scenarios of blindness through 2020 with different emphases on the blindness control policy in India. Recent population-based data on the age-, sex- and cause-specific blindness rates from the Andhra Pradesh Eye Disease Study for the entire age range were applied to the population distribution of India to estimate the number of blind persons in 2000. The age-, sex- and cause-specific rates of blindness were then applied to the estimated age, sex, and urban-rural population distribution of India in 2010 and 2020 to project the number of persons blind (from various causes) and the blind person-years that would be suffered under varying degrees of emphasis in the policy to control blindness due to particular diseases. For these projections, blindness was defined as a presenting distance visual acuity of < 6/60 or a central visual field < 200 in the better eye. The number of blind persons in India in 2000 was estimated to be 18.7 million (95% confidence interval [CI]: 15.2-22.3), of which 9.5 million were cataract-related and 3 million refractive error-related. If there is no change in the current trend of blindness, the number of blind persons in India would increase to 24.1 million (95% CI: 19.7-28.4) in 2010, and to 31.6 million (95% Cl: 26.4-36.9) in 2020. If effective strategies are put in place to eliminate 95% of blindness due to cataracts by 2020, blindness in 15.6 million persons would be prevented who would otherwise be blind in 2020 if the current trend continues, and 78 million blind person-years would be prevented in these persons. Similarly, if effective strategies are also implemented to eliminate 95% of the refractive error blindness by 2020, another 4.2 million persons would be prevented from being blind in 2020, and 82 million blind person-years would be prevented. In addition, if strategies to prevent 90% of the preventable blindness due to corneal disease and glaucoma are successful by 2020, blindness in an additional 3.6 million persons in 2020 and 29 million blind person-years would be prevented. The planning of blindness control in India should take into account recent population-based data for the entire age range, which suggest that the number of blind persons in India is currently over 18 million. This estimate is 50% more than the figure of 12 million from a decade ago that is still quoted widely in the blindness control policy documents. If avoidable blindness is to be substantially reduced in India by 2020, effective strategies against blindness due to cataracts and refractive error are needed urgently as both these conditions are relatively easy to treat. Also, strategies against preventable corneal and glaucoma blindness need to be strengthened soon for them to show an impact over the next two decades.

Locomotion is also one of the defining features of living. Blind people can move but can’t do it independently. The need for the perpetual control of locomotion starts early in life, and there is a risk of blind children being retarded in many aspects of their development if locomotion is not developed properly. They may need special help to start their spontaneous exploration of the environment.

Blind being a special group in society, the need for this society to give them more care and respect is a must, so that they are better able to live independently. However, walking is the biggest problem. Traditional navigation devices mostly blind cane, blind by tapping the ground or walking around the object to determine the direction, the structure is simple single function easy to use but the secondary effect is not very obvious in fact, villain counter many problems when using the blind cane suggest such as poor road conditions, uneven hangings in front of obstacles, the ordinary cane cannot be proven accurate. such a serious impact on the safety of blind travelers.

 Smart ultrasonic glasses for blind people compressors offer pair of wearable glasses, ultrasonic sensors for detection of obstacles in the way of blind man, and a buzzer to give the sound as per the direction of obstacles from the man, which can be used for locomotion purpose. SMART VISION GLASSES can be us.

Recognition and ultrasonic obstacles perception Is used as audio assistance for blind people.

These SMART VISION GLASSES might be the solution for the bofd people to walk safely by detecting obstacles and generating corresponding alert signals according to the distance of the obstacles.

SIGNAL:

As the blind man goes closer to the obstacle, the distance sent by the sensors to the central unit will decrease. Hence the beeping of the buzzer will take shorter intervals and hence the beeping will be faster but as the man will go far away the beeping will take long intervals.

An ultrasonic sensor is a fixed perpendicular to the glasses. Ultrasonic glasses are very cheap resulting in the affordability of the device.

At present many navigation devices use seeing-eye – guide dogs. But it has limitations like training them for two years in the life span of dogs. Hence, it would be better to use SMART VISION GLASSES as a guide. It’s even easier to carry.

There is still much to be jailed to make the locomotion without vision or reduced vision safe and effective.

Freedom of sight must be utilized by everyone. Whether the person is blind or the person had reduced vision, they should not miss any beautiful moments. Our science and technology have gifted us with SMART VISION GLASSES. One of the technologies that are behind this invention is SHG technologies. They have a fine production of SMART VISION GLASSES.

This electronic device is an innovative product to support and help that visually impaired person such to have the confidence to travel independently. In the developed obstacle detection and warning device, the distance measurement sensor is used to detect the obstacles, and headphone is used as the warning device to give the obstacle information to the user. The distance measurement sensor's input is processed via the main controller and gives the warning signal to the headphone.

The power supply comes from the battery and is acquired from alternative energy such as solar energy to charge the battery. The proposed warning system is to combine the vibration method with the audio method. The vibration method is the best solution to warn the visually impaired person because it uses the touch sense of humans when the system is run.

The organization of UN has released the statistic that people with disabilities (PWDs) in the world are ten percent of the total population. Therefore, 80 percent of the disabled are located in developing countries from the calculated number. In addition, instead of Malaysia having a population of about 28 million people, the number of disabled persons in Malaysia is estimated at 2.8 million people. However, the number of people with disabilities registered with the Social Welfare Department is only about 280 thousand people, which is 12 percent of the estimated population of the disabled in our country. This total number does not reflect the real situation of disabled people in this country. Most of the disabled are ignored by the government and need not be considered. The disabled should be given priority, but in the context of Malaysia, disabled people are not advanced, but are often ignored. Malaysia has signed the Convention on the Rights of Disabled Association of the United Nations, but the rights of disabled persons are not granted equally. The convention guarantees that the disabled enjoy equal opportunities with those efforts as well as full and effective participation in society in all aspects of life - accessibility, mobility, health, education, employment, rehabilitation, and participation in the political, economic, and socio-cultural. On the other hand, the disabled person can be categorized in some classes such as deaf, visually impaired, physically disabled, etc.

However, almost of disabilities who are always involved in great danger is visually impaired person. In recent years, almost all visually impaired people normally use a white cane to travel from one place to another place. However, one of the major problems with using a white cane is the difficulty to determine where the locations of the obstacle exist. Additionally, the disadvantage of the white cane is the obstacles can be detected only by contact. This problem will expose the users to dangerous situations when the visually impaired man is very close to obstacles 

Hence, there is a lot of research that has been actively researched as a supporting device for visually impaired people. The machines that have been researched are electronic travel aids (ETAs), and mobile robots. The portability of the guide can type is the main advantage.

However, the decision maker of the system is a controller which controls the motor at the wheel to turn or go straight for researched machines. Consequently, it will give hidden damage to the user’s brain where their brain cannot be actively used as a decision maker. The main requirements of the assistive device for the visually impaired person are safety, practicability, portability, and convenience. Safety is the basic requirement to judge whether an assistive device is reliable or not. The most important task for visually impaired persons is to gain information on the circumstances of the road and the location of the obstacle. By using the collected information, the visually impaired person needs to arrive at their destinations avoiding unexpected obstacles.

 The spectacle type of obstacle detection and warning system to guide and support the visually impaired person. This intelligent travel aid device is called SMART EYE which can replace the eyes of the visually impaired but not the brain. In addition, the warning system will assist them to detect the location of obstacles by using a distance measurement sensor. Then, when the obstacles are detected (by distance sensor), the warning signal will be given immediately to the visually impaired person through a vibrator and sound directly to the user’s skin with suitable strength via a microcontroller. Therefore, it will help the visually impaired person to change the path or direction without colliding with obstacles thus saving time and reducing the risk of accidents. The flat coreless vibrator is used in the developed SMART EYE because it has a small diameter and the operating voltage is suitable for the human being. The microcontroller is used to make complete programming and then is simulated at the Proteus. The best strength of using the vibration and sound is determined by a survey and getting feedback from the user. The project is a low-cost project using cheap but effective components like vibrators and earphones because most visually impaired men belong to the lower income group.