International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research ISSN 2351-8014 Vol. 22 No. 2 Apr. 2016, pp. 425-430 © 2015 Innovative Space of Scientific Research Journals http://www.ijisr.issr-journals.org/ Corresponding Author: S. Lokesh 425 RFID Based Blind People Navigation for Easy Transportation S. Lokesh 1 , M. Anto Bennet 2 , N.S. Abisha 3 , K. Archana 3 , M. Manickavalli 3 , and D. Abirami 3 1 Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, VELTECH, Chennai-600062, India 2 Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, VELTECH, Chennai-600062, India 3 UG Student, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, VELTECH, Chennai-600062, India Copyright © 2016 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT: Unfortunately, public transportation is not an easy mean to use and access by blind people in many countries. In case of buses, blind people have difficulty in recognizing and estimating the arrival of buses at the bus stations. In this paper a bus system using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is used. The blind people in the bus station are provided with the RFID reader which is recognized by the RFID tag in the bus. Then the blind people get the information about the arrival of the bus. The indication is made in the bus that the blind people is present in the station to the driver with the help of RF transmitter and RF receiver. So the bus stops at the particular station. KEYWORDS: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), RF transmitter and RF receiver, RFID reader, RFID tag. 1 INTRODUCTION According to the report of World Health Organization about 285 million are estimated to be visually impaired worldwide published in 2014, there are about 39 million people blind and 249 million people have low vision. About 95% of the visually impaired people live in the developing countries. Each visually impaired people face many problems according to their levels of vision. With the support of various organizations, more visually impaired people have been given opportunity to education and many other mean. But still the issues of navigation for the blind are very complex and troublesome especially during public transportation. For the blind people it is difficult to read the traffic signal and street signs. In order to overcome these difficulties a visually impaired person might use cane, guide dog. As these alternatives are also helpful to the blind person as assistive devices but it is not so effective. Eventhough guide dogs and walking cane are also helpful but they are restricted to certain environment. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a feasible, cost effective and emerging technology in recent years. The application of RFID technology has been numerous and the usage of this technology has led to many applications that are being used today in many applications. RFID technology has been widely used in logistics, manufacturing, environment, agriculture, retail aviation and information technology [2]. It is method of storing and remotely retrieving data via radio frequency transmission by using devices called RFID tag and RFID reader. The software part is Embedded C with Keil for programming the controller.Keil software is the leading vendor for 8/16- bit development tools (ranked at first position in the 2004 Embedded Market Study of the Embedded Systems and EE Times magazine). 2 PROPOSED SYSTEM The RFID technology is used to identify the buses for the blind people. Each buses have individual tag for individual route. When the tag is read by the reader then the intimation voice will be sent to the blind people through headphone. And also