The Regina Pacis secondary school students in Anambra state, has invented smart sticks that can detect obstacles not less than 120 centimetres away from a blind person.
The school had once built a mobile application called the Fake Drug (FD) detector to help in tackling fake pharmaceutical products in Nigeria.
The feat then earned the students the 2018 Junior Gold Awards in the World Technovation Challenge in the United States of America.
Recently school has gone a notch higher in their robotics and coding skills, the female pupils from the school have now developed a smart stick for the blind.
While speaking at the launching ceremony on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, the Nigeria Association of the Blind (NAB), youth coordinator, Anambra State, Chibuzor Obierika, claimed the product has improved from its first test.
He said:
“After building this project, we noticed it could only sense obstacles horizontally in front of the blind man, so we decided to advance this project. The Smart Sticks can now sense objects from an angle of elevation and an angle of depression.”
“The Smart Sticks are designed with an input ultrasonic sensor that alerts a blind person of an obstacle not less than 120 centimetres ahead of him or her.’
The Smart Sticks were also reviewed by some visually impaired persons at the event and some of them expressed their joy over the innovation.
A member said:
“I feel very much elated. In today’s society, visually impaired people have gone past the era of being perceived as being incapable of contributing to societal development.
These Smart Sticks would go a long way in helping them live a life of independence.”
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