Digital Forensics and Internet of Things

3Design of Gesture-Based Hand Gloves Using Arduino UNO: A Grace to Abled Mankind

Harpreet Singh Bedi*, Dekkapati Vinit Raju, Nandyala Meghanath Reddy C. Partha Sai Kumar and Mandla Ravi Varma

SEEE, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India

Abstract

Nowadays, technology and science are advancing at a rapid pace. The advancing or smart technology is “augmenting” the way of living in society. People need “smart” solutions to their problems. So, in this chapter, we would like to introduce a paradigm of smart technology, gesture-based wheelchair using Arduino UNO. The ideology is to introduce a wheelchair where physically challenged, deaf and mute or elderly people, can control the wheelchair and send an emergency message or SOS using GSM module, and a nearby person can see the emergency message on the LCD. The abovementioned tasks can be performed using hand gestures. This enables the disabled person to drive the wheelchair and move from one place to another with more efficiency. The proposed idea is to be comprised with comfort and mobility to the person in the wheelchair. Arduino UNO is the microcontroller which interfaces the components and performs tasks; flux sensors detect the hand gestures; MEMS sensor is used to convert digital signals into mechanical tasks; motor IC drives the motors; and GSM module sends the message to the responsible person. This makes our idea to be cost efficient compared to the joystick-controlled or voice-controlled wheelchair.

Keywords: Arduino, ...