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A LOW COST UNIVERSAL HAND HELD DEVICE TO ENHANCE LIVES

A LOW COST UNIVERSAL HAND HELD DEVICE TO ENHANCE LIVES. EMPOWERING THE 165 MILLION INDIAN POPULATION OF VISUALLY CHALLENGED AND ELDERLY. Vision. Improve the quality of life of the Visually challenged and the elderly (over 60 years of age) and empower them to lead an independent life.

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A LOW COST UNIVERSAL HAND HELD DEVICE TO ENHANCE LIVES

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  1. A LOW COST UNIVERSAL HAND HELD DEVICE TO ENHANCE LIVES EMPOWERING THE 165 MILLION INDIAN POPULATION OF VISUALLY CHALLENGED AND ELDERLY

  2. Vision Improve the quality of life of the Visually challenged and the elderly (over 60 years of age) and empower them to lead an independent life. Objective Build a low cost universal mobile phone assistive technology device catering to the Visually challenged and elderly. Build a sustainable ecosystem of service providers and consumers around the mobile phone assistive technology device including the back-end support systems.

  3. Visual representation of the Mobile Phone Assistive Technology device and its features • Global Positioning System for directions • Display screen friendly for low vision users • Proximity sensor to detect nearby objects • Low cost Open source text to speech software • FM radio for local news, entertainment, alerts • Applications such as Banking, Retail, Health, Emergency guidance, Learning, Weather, Scanning, Office suite • 6 basic keys for Dial/Answer, Disconnect, GPS, Proximity sensor, Text to speech, Speech recognition • Open source multi-lingual speech recognition software • Display screen friendly for low vision users and to browse the Internet • Gyroscope to measure acceleration, shakes, vibration shock, or fall • Application for community connect • Digital compass (magnetometer), to detect direction • Application for contextual alerts and reminders • Talking Accessible keypad with large alphabets and numerals • Gesture recognition

  4. Visual representation of Mobile Phone Assistive Technology device eco-system Differently-abled users App store: Differently-abled and Elderly support Elderly Users Social Network (Community connect ) 24X7 Support

  5. TEAM • Sunil J Mathew ( Social Entrepreneur) – The idea and concept came to Sunil through his experience of having worked with visually challenged youth through the past 10 years . Having started the charitable org SRVC (www.visuallychallenged.com) to having an full fledged world class orchestra comprising of visually challenged artistes and musicians, to the latest project being a training centre offering computer training, personality development, communication skills and mobility sessions for the past 2.5 years ( www.rcg-srvc.info) , Sunil is the driver of this idea and wants to ensure that this takes off the ground and the device ultimately can be used by the target audience its developed for. Sunil and his team at Systica are all set to start work with the prototype once the deserving first level of funding / incubation for the project is possible. • Remesh Govind ( Technologist) - With the experience of having worked with multiple corporations for 15 years Remesh Govind, shares the same passion with Sunil on the idea and brings to the table his analytical and application development skills and is set to lead the device coding team to make this project a reality. • Jijesh A ( Management Student/ Inspiration) - Having come up the hard way and mastering skills of computing to a MBA from an US University, being probably one of the most successful visually challenged young person - is the fire behind the concept and an inspiration to the whole team. Jijesh is partnering many organisations on several technology related open source projects and has found several scholarships and awards.

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