Smart White Cane for Visually Impaired People for Hearing Recreation in Tourist Environment

Abstract

The tourist cities apply technologies to strengthen and facilitate the communication of the tourists with the sporting, cultural, scientific and other aspects of a city. Smart tourism is the innovation and the adoption of information and communication technologies in tourism. The Smart white cane gives smart tourism to Blind people. The smart white cane is a white cane for blind people supplemented with Electronic Travel Aids, Electronic Orientation Aids, and Position Locator Devices. This paper proposes a smart white cane for visually impaired people for hearing recreation in tourist environments (smart tourist white cane or Smart White Cane for Smart Tourism).