Blaze Averter – A Cooking Sustenant for Visually Challenged People

Abstract

Simple daily activities like cooking, walking etc., are major problems for visually challenged people because of their problem with ‘vision’. Though challenged by vision, they would like to lead their life independently. However, tasks like cooking food on their own may be hazardous for them as touching hot utensils or touching a lit stove burner may burn their skin. This project ‘BLAZE AVERTER’ aims at helping the visually challenged people in cooking their food without burning their body. A proximity temperature sensor would be used to sense the temperature of the surrounding and a flame sensor would be used to detect any flame in the kitchen. A threshold is set which distinguishes high temperature and presence of flame. Any change in set threshold will be identified and transmitted to the speaker to alert the user and protects them from getting burns.