Bus Identification Device for Blind People using Arduino

K. Arun Kumar; P. Sreekanth; P. Rajashekar Reddy

K. Arun Kumar Asst. Professor, CVR College of Engineering/ECE Department, Hyderabad, India
P. Sreekanth Asst. Professor, CVR College of Engineering/ECE Department, Hyderabad, India
P. Rajashekar Reddy Asst. Professor, CVR College of Engineering/ECE Department, Hyderabad, India

Abstract

Generally, journey in bus is a safe and comfort factor, but due to increase in number of buses and passengers it’s going to be tougher now-a-days and it will be even more difficult for blind people to travel in bus. This paper presents a low cost and easy to build and use system for blind people to identify which bus is approaching the bus stop. The main purpose is to provide a bus detection system for blind people by assigning different tags to different buses with the help of
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. In the experiment set-up, Arduino, RFID reader and tags, bluetooth module for voice announcement and Mobile phone with Serial Monitor App which gives voice commands are used. Whenever the bus comes to the stop, the RFID reader will be reading the
tag (which is given to every bus for particular route) depending upon the tag it will give voice intimation so that blind people can know the bus number and related information about bus.