Challenges Of Blindness

Description of the situation at hand

Around 285 million people in this world are deprived of the gift of sight. It is hard to even imagine the plight of these individuals who find it extremely difficult to cope with simple everyday tasks. These people are quite dependent on others to fulfill their needs and many of them have to spend their lives in special care facilities. Currently, certain devices and tools are available which help make their lives slightly easier. These include; the walking stick (cane), which helps them navigate around and braille, which is a tactile writing and reading system used by people who are blind and low vision. While these tools do help ease their burden they have a lot of shortcomings.

Identification of the

People with complete blindness or low vision often have a difficult time self-navigating outside well-known environments. In fact, physical movement is one of the biggest challenges for blind people, explains World Access for the Blind. Traveling or simply walking down a crowded street may pose great difficulty. Blindness causes considerable social challenges, usually in relation to the activities in which a blind person cannot participate. All too frequently, blindness affects a person 's ability to perform many job duties, which severely limits their employment opportunities, explains the World Health Organization. This may not only affect a person 's finances, but also their self-esteem. A common device used for navigation such as a walking cane is simply not enough to tackle this issue. The main problem that we are hoping to find a solution to is the integration of key electronic mobility aids into a single device that will not break the bank of a person and would also be relatively user

In addition, they will use their knowledge in chemistry to design efficient batteries which extend the usage of the device.

The industrial engineering contributions that will be implemented in this project is what type of material in the manufacturing process that would be most efficient to use as well holds the least costs. In addition using the methods, approaches, and skills learned to analyze and forecast the production systems of this product.

As for the Electrical Engineering discipline, electrical engineers will be responsible for the actual internal architecture of the device. Electrical engineers are responsible for the embedded motherboard to be used, and the installation of all the sensors to be used in the device itself. They will also use their knowledge of electronic circuitry to ensure that the right amount of voltages and currents are flowing through the resistors and other components to make sure that the device is safe and secure for daily