{"id":2252,"date":"2014-03-11T15:54:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T10:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:54:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T10:24:07","slug":"now-smart-canes-visually-challenged-iit-delhi-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/now-smart-canes-visually-challenged-iit-delhi-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Smart Canes for the Visually Challenged\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dan IIT-Delhi Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"123\"<\/a>Marking a history once again is IIT-Delhi<\/a>, which in association with Chennai-based Phoenix Medical Systems, is all geared up to introduce Smart Cane for the visually challenged in a few months.<\/p>\n

The innovation of Smart Cane comes in the wake of a huge smart-device flood ripping through markets.<\/p>\n

Priced at Rs. 2000, Smart Cane is navigation and mobility aid especially designed for the visually challenged.<\/p>\n

\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cThe smart cane product, conceptualized by IIT-Delhi and being produced by Phoenix, is set to be launched in the market within a month,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d Ted Bianco, Director of Technology Transfer, Wellcome Trust, told\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Business Line<\/i>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0on the sidelines of a medical summit here.<\/p>\n

Smart Cane can easily detect any obstacle up to 3 kilometers away with its ultrasonic sensors. It conveys the range of obstacle using vibrating signals. A user-detachable unit as it is, it is powered by a rechargeable battery.<\/p>\n

This revolutionary product is expected to marketed and developed by Wellcome Trust. It is recognized for its financial support to translational research for affordable healthcare in India.<\/p>\n

\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cOur design emphasis has been on affordability. We have carried out extensive user trials across multiple locations,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d Shirshendu Mukherjee, Sr Advisor, India Initiative, Wellcome Trust, said.Most smart canes available in India are imported from other countries. They cost about Rs. 20,000 each.<\/p>\n

In another such smart-device revolution is hand-held ophthalmoscope that can detect retinopathy. A Bangalore-based product design and development firm, Remidio, is developing this product. This product is being developed by Remidio under the Wellcome Trust transfer of technology of program.<\/p>\n

\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cThis product will cost less than half of the ophthalmoscopes available in the market, which are also centralised in their availability. Our product is a battery operated one with reflex free retinal imaging. We are also making a mobile platform for the product so that it can transfer the images to doctors located far away for providing the report,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d Mukherjee said.<\/p>\n

This post was published by Rakesh Singh<\/a>, The product head at askIITians <\/a>and an IIT- Delhi<\/a> and IIM-Kozhikode alumni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marking a history once again is IIT-Delhi, which in association with Chennai-based Phoenix Medical Systems, is all geared up to introduce Smart Cane for the visually challenged in a few months. The innovation of Smart Cane comes in the wake of a huge smart-device flood ripping through markets. Priced at Rs. 2000, Smart Cane is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}