Mobility Safety and SOS Assistive Device for the Visually Impaired
Mobility Safety and SOS Assistive Device for the Visually Impaired is an open-source smart personal safety alarm designed to ensure the safe mobility of individuals who experience walking difficulties, such as the visually impaired, the elderly, and other physical minorities. It was developed to improve upon the passive response and poor usability for people with disabilities found in conventional safety alarms, allowing users to request help easily and quickly.The assistive device consists of hardware (the alarm unit) and software (the mobile application). Designed to resemble a keycap accessory on the outside, the device can be discreetly carried as an everyday personal safety item without looking like a traditional self-defense tool. Users can press the keycap switch to respond flexibly to different situations: pressing it briefly triggers a "general assistance request" to notify those nearby when help is needed without urgency, while pressing and holding the switch for 2 seconds or longer during an emergency activates a continuous alarm for 3 minutes and sends the user's current GPS location along with an emergency rescue message to a pre-configured number via the application. Additionally, false alarms can be easily managed by pressing and holding the switch for 5 seconds or more to cancel the alert.
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