Smart Stick

Smart Walking Stick for Visually Impaired

In order to help the visually challenged people, a study that helps those people to walk more confidently is proposed. The study hypothesizes a smart walking stick that alerts visually-impaired people over obstacles, pit and water in front could help them in walking with less accident. It outlines a better navigational tool for the visually impaired. It consists of a simple walking stick equipp...

Password Protected Smart Card and Memory Stick Authentication against Off-Line Dictionary Attacks

We study the security requirements for remote authentication with password protected smart card. In recent years, several protocols for password-based authenticated key exchange have been proposed. These protocols are used for the protection of password based authentication between a client and a remote server. In this paper, we will focus on the password based authentication between a smart ca...

Design and Implementation of SEE-Phone in SEES (Smart Environment Explorer Stick)

The mobility is a complex, yet not well understood, human cognitive process; it subtends several different tasks such as walking and orientation. The visually impaired people (VIP) mobility heavily depends on the white stick (or white cane) which however does not provide an efficient support for walking and orientation. Indeed, these two later functions implementation requires the usage of high...

Cocktail stick injuries--the dangers of half a stick.

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