Smart Shoes with Embedded Sensors Created Obstacles in the Path

Smart Shoes with Embedded Sensors Created Obstacles in the Path

Assistive Technology, Europe, May 18 2021

Austria: Shoes with sensors embedded in them have been created to alert blind and visually impaired people to obstacles in their path.

Developed by Austria’s Tec-Innovation company in collaboration with the Graz University of Technology, the intelligent shoes can increase the safety of visually impaired and blind people in their everyday life.

The warning system includes an ultra-bright LED and two sensors placed at the front of each shoe.

The sensors detect obstacles and notify the wearer through vibration feedback in the shoe or sound warning signals via a smartphone.

The device can warn of potential obstacles located up to four meters ahead, but the user can control the detection range with buttons on the shoe itself or through a mobile application.

“The alerts work like those of cars, the closer you get to the object, the faster the sound or vibrations,” Tec-Innovation CEO Kevin Pajestka tells Spanish newsagency Efe.

“If the right shoe detects the obstacle, you hear the sound through the right earphone or you feel the vibration in that foot, which means that [...]

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