Safety Road Crossing System For Blind People

Final Year Project Presentation By M.H.I.M Aththanayke IESL Part III-C Supervisor: Mr.Dhammika Perera
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Background of the project Introduction(Why,How) System Design Onsite Installation System Testing Cost Analysis Conclusion and Further Developments Acknowledgement

Background of the project

If a visually impaired person chooses to walk, even crossing the road is a big challenge, Most of our traffic lights are not visually-impaired friendly. Modifying the existing traffic lights to emit audio signals to help the visually impaired is prohibitively expensive. Solution is to device an attachment to be mounted on the existing traffic lights to give signals to visually impaired people will be feasible one. Sri Lankan government come up with new idea to make the government facilities accessible for the disabled cause disabilities of the war heroes.
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Introduction
Sri Lanka's blind population is estimated to be between 92920 and 150000 Thousands of them are facing enormous number of issues when they are crossing road Providing an safety device for above mentioned portion of people in the society is an vital requirement
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Why?
Commercially launched such devices are rare to find and those are so expensive Munivo is one of the product, but it is only for object detecting and more expensive as well. Current Road Crossing system not support to the blinds.

How?
created a cost effective & Reliability device that will allow people with vision disabilities to cross the street safely The devise will not be a sign of blinds like a white cane. The idea behind this project is to provide more cost effective efficient and accurate device for the blind people that would help them a lot.
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System layout
Transmitter Freq:50KHz Transmitter Freq:50KHz Transmitter Freq:25KHz

Transmitter Freq:25KHz

Transmitter Freq:25KHz

Transmitter Freq:25KHz

Transmitter Freq:50KHz

Transmitter Freq:50KHz

System Design
Transmitting Unit Power Source

Safety Road Crossing System

Transmitting Unit

Receiving Unit
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Transmitting unit Power Source

Transmitter unit

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Transmitting unit consist of two devices basically:
RF signal Transmitter unit. WALK signal detection unit (Using LM741)

The walk signal triggers the LDR circuit at the begin The LDR gives 5V as its output to the microcontroller input pins.(Two inputs from two) Microcontroller identify which transmitter have to be trigger according to the received input signal. Hence transmitter is transferring the RF signals in exact frequency (25kHz,50kHz)
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Walk signal
There are two types of lights that are using in all the city signals:

Tungsten bulbs LEDs

+5V R2 LDR R3 1K 3 2 R5 1K +5V

+5V R1 1M

U1 R4 6 LM741 1K Sen_SigDetect

+ -

R6 POT

4 5 1

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Receiving unit

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There are three main devices exist in to the receiver unit:

RF signal receiver unit Vibration motor Dry cell power supply

Receiver unit is check for the signal from three possible directions It is sent out the direction for the user when the walk signals are on
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Receiver Block Diagrame

Three antennas, Microcontroller and M: Middle Receiver antenna to detect the Vibrator signal coming from the Front
L: Left Receiver antenna to detect the signal coming from the Left R: Right Receiver antenna to detect the signal coming from the Right
Power Unit Microcontroller Vibrator

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State diagram for the microcontroller of the receiver

Receiver antennas directions truth table
Reset
L M R

Receive signals from the antennas

0
0 0

0
0 1 1 0 0 1 1

0
1 0 1 0 1 0 1

X
NF F B NF NF B B

000

Check Signals
001 100 101 011 110 111

0 1 1 1 1

010

NF

Vibration
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Vibration Patterns
If only the street was safe, the motor would vibrate in short pulses on right, left, front or both If only the person near the safe blind crossing system with no WALK signal its vibrate with continuous vibration with no buzzer If there is no safety system nearby then the three directional vibrations would be continuously vibrate with buzzer
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View of the transmitters and Receiver together

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Onsite installation
Transmitter unit can be install into the existing traffic light system box this also added advantage to the system(8*8*3) Receiver unit is feasible enough for mobility. it is handy enough to use as a medium size key tag

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Installation image

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System testing
Checked the operating vibration patterns
Test Checked the operating vibration patterns Transmitter on 100kHz 25kHz 50kHz Results Long vibration with the buzzer

Buzzer off & long vibration Idle state Vibration Vibration

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Directivity and range of Transmitter Antennas

Tested values showed that its having approximate 20 degree bandwidth value when transmitting 40m maximum transmission range increases the accuracy of the system. Needs to use small metal disks to guide RF main globe and avoid Omni directional transmission.

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Transmitter frequency Checking

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Transmitter when WALK signal is on

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Transmitter when WALK signal is off

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Receiver without receiving RF signal

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Receiver receives from right side

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Cost analysis
Item Quantity Part Unit Price Price

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1000uf(25V) 100nf 220uf 0.1uf 15pf 1N4007 Connector LED Buzzer 470K 1K 20K Preset 10K 330 LM317 LM7805 PIC16F877A 4Mz 1M LDR 1K POT LM741 40 Pin IC Base 400mA Transformer AC Code PCB Tx Unit Rx Unit
12v 3W solar panel

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15.00 1.50 8.00 1.50 1.00 3.00 16.00 2.00 45.00 0.25 0.25 5.00 0.25 0.25 20.00 18.00 400.00 22.00 0.25 19.00 0.25 5.00 18.00 20.00 140.00 45.00 450.00 750.00 750.00
1800.00 TOTAL

30.00 1.50 8.00 1.50 2.00 15.00 32.00 8.00 45.00 0.75 0.50 10.00 0.25 0.25 20.00 18.00 800.00 22.00 0.25 19.00 0.75 5.00 18.00 20.00 140 45.00 450.00 750.00 750.00
1800.00 5012.75

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Conclusion and further development

Restructuring the empowering unit to be more cost efficient, using less space, and preventing interference from other devices Creating the Buzzer warning alarm for low battery state will increase the system reliability Adding a narrow beam antenna to transmitter for avoid Omni directional transmission
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Need to use advanced PCB mounting techniques to minimize the receiver dimension such as double side surface mounting Need to mount the receiver unit microprocessor on vibration free surface for durability

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Acknowledgement
Project Supervisor: Mr.Dhammika Perera Deputy General manager Data & Access network operations SLT Head Office Colombo-02

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Q&A
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THANK YOU!

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