As per World Health Organization (WHO), there are 40 million blind and 252 million with low vision or with partial visual impairment. Close to 22% of the impairments cannot be treated or cannot be corrected with glasses, contacts or surgery. These are beyond the medical sciences and are called Uncorrectable Visual Impairments. Blindness from birth, Age related Macular Degeneration (AMD), diabetic retinopathy, severe glaucoma, damage to optical nerve due to infection or head injuries, stroke fall into this category.
SHG Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a Bangalore based company has introduced a wearable device called ‘SMART VISION Glasses’ for the blind/visually impaired. The underlying technologies are Artificial Intelligence, Machine Vision, and Machine Learning. The device does not provide vision. However, would help the visually impaired with reading and walking assistance, help them identify things around them or facial recognition and many more interactive, interesting tasks and help them to lead an independent life.
From personal safety to independence the device is meant to bring a new companion in their life. This has an electronic brain (artificial intelligence) which transforms their dark world into a more interactive, interesting and independent world. They can now read their favourite book, catch up with the news on magazines and newspapers and students can write their exams without scribes. They can cross the road at zebra crossings and are safe on roads. The associated mobile app also enables their near and dear ones to track them. The SOS feature, with a single tap sends the current location of person with a view in front of the camera.
• Things Around You: This feature would help them recognise the object and in front of them, a traffic light, zebra crossing, a tree, or items at home and office like windows, mobile, laptop, or furniture.
• Reading Assistance: This feature would help them to read books, magazines in any languages of their choice. It supports English, Hindi and a few other regional languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and more.
• Walking assistance with obstacle detection: With this feature blind people could walk around safely and simply detect any obstacle in front of them. The built in LIDAR constantly tells them the distance between them and the obstacle.
• Facial recognition: Facial recognition will help them recognise any familiar face from their stored database with the help of their facial features. This will help the visually impaired or the blind recognise any familiar people easily.
• Safety features: With a single tap send the location and the frontal view of the user to their loved ones. The loved ones can also monitor the location of the person.
• Currency detection: The device can recognize the Indian currency
• Language friendly: The device interacts with the user in the language he is familiar with.
About SHG Technologies
SHG Technologies is a global engineering and healthcare brand that invests in building innovative products which have high social relevance. We have a keen interest in helping society with their innovative products. SMART VISION GLASSES is one of it, this wearable device enables and helps the blind/Visually impaired and low vision people with their everyday works with more interactive, interesting and independent world.
So, if you're looking to help low vision or blind people with their everyday life and want to know more request a demo with us today!
If you want to buy or donate Smart Vision Glass, please contact us or mail us at support@smarthealthglobal.in