Vehicle Locator with Blind Assistance

This is a novel solution for tracking the location of a vehicle and availability of seats in real time (for public transport vehicles) using mobile application which also has a blind assist mode that helps blind people to use the app by voice commands. Two modes of operation are normal mode and blind assist mode which can be launched either by clicking on app icon or by shaking the device when it is in blind mode. The system tracks the location of the vehicle using a GPS and the longitude and latitude addresses are fetched and stored in a web server through a Wi-Fi module from the controller. The seat availability is determined from the output of two IR transmitter-receiver pairs which identifies whether a person is entering or exiting from the vehicle. These obtained information are made available at the user end through a mobile application which runs on android platform. The system is built on Arduino and ESP8266 is used to connect to the remote server. This system can not only be used to track public transport vehicles but can also be made use to find lost vehicles also.