Bus Navigation System for Visually Impaired People

In today’s date various devices are useful in navigation for the visually impaired people, but there is no such device which helps the VIP’s (Visually Impaired People) in travelling. The presented project includes an app entitled as BUS FYNDER app, which can assist them for safe and secured travelling. Even though various attempts are made to help the visually impaired people to commute to various places with the help of devices like guide canes, talking signs and echolocations in navigating to reach their destination, but the main intent is not accomplished, that is it fails to join them with public transport. In this project we propose a route navigation system using B4A, PHP, CSS, HTML and SQL. The app is divided into two parts that are user side and driver side. In the driver side category, the driver sets the bus route, bus number and direction which are then registered into the database. Updated information is embedded into user side through cloud computing. In user side when user opens the app the current location is automatically fed into the app through GPS. After entering the destination into the app, the app helps the VIP to reach its nearest bus stop and required destination in secured manner through Google maps. This all will be done through voice messages. For this in every device we need to install talkback feature to provide text to speech function which makes this app more user friendly. There are certain features in driver app such as telling the VIP whether the bus is crowded or not, which is updated by the driver and then a voice message is delivered to the user through app, that the bus is crowded. The app contains a very simple GUI so that the VIPs can easily operate the app. This project is also aimed at helping the visually impaired people for independent navigation of bus.