ABSTRACT
Nowadays, the technology and science are advancing at rapid rate. The advancing or smart technology is ‘augmenting’ the way of living of a person in a society. People need ‘smart’ solutions to their problems. So, in this paper, we would like to introduce a paradigm of smart technology, Gesture-based wheelchair using Arduino UNO. The ideology is to introduce a wheelchair where a physically challenged, deaf and mute or old age people, can control the wheelchair, send an emergency message or SOS using GSM module and a nearby person can see the emergency message on the LCD. The above-mentioned tasks can be performed using hand gestures. This makes the needy person to drive the wheelchair and move from one place to another with more efficiency. Arduino UNO is the microcontroller which interfaces the components and performs tasks, Flux sensors detect the hand gestures, MEMS sensor which is used to convert digital signals into mechanical tasks, Motor IC drives the motors and GSM module sends the message to the responsible person.
