A LOW COST UNIVERSAL HAND HELD DEVICE TO ENHANCE LIVES

EMPOWERING THE 165 MILLION INDIAN POPULATION OF VISUALLY CHALLENGED AND ELDERLY

Vision Improve the quality of life of the Visually challenged and the elderly (over 60 years

of age) and empower them to lead an independent life.

Objective

Build a low cost universal mobile phone assistive technology device catering to the Visually challenged and elderly.

Build a sustainable ecosystem of service providers and consumers around the mobile phone assistive technology device including the back-end support systems.

Target Users Visually challenged and elderly

Unique Value Proposition 1.Low cost device for better quality life2.Simple and easy to use3.Customized for Indian needs (language, locations, lifestyle etc.)4.Supporting eco-system of telephone based support, applications etc.

Proposed price point Rs. 3000 – 4000

Addressable market for differently-abled users

75 million

Addressable market for elderly users 90 million

Total addressable market 165 million

User Activity Device feature to support the user activity

Communication

Multi-lingual speech recognition

Gesture based user friendly interfaces

6 basic keys for Dial/Answer, Disconnect, GPS, Proximity sensor, Text to speech, Speech recognition

Display screen friendly for low vision users

Talking Accessible keypad with large alphabets and numerals

Information, Transactions, Lifestyle, Productivity

Text to speech support for local languages

Applications such as Banking, Retail, Insurance, Health Management, Emergency guidance, Weather, Community connect, Contextual alerts and reminders, Office suite

FM radio for local news, entertainment, alerts

OCR for object detection

Mobility, Location & Orientation

Global Positioning System based navigational help for directions

Proximity sensor to detect nearby objects

Digital compass (magnetometer), to detect direction

Gyroscope to measure acceleration, shake, vibration shock, or fall

SupportPeer to peer support

Call center support

Visual representation of the Mobile Phone Assistive Technology device and its features

• Low cost Open source text to speech software

• Low cost Open source text to speech software

• Display screen friendly for low vision users

• Display screen friendly for low vision users

• Global Positioning System for directions

• Global Positioning System for directions

• Proximity sensor to detect nearby objects

• Proximity sensor to detect nearby objects

• Open source multi-lingual speech recognition software

• Display screen friendly for low vision users and to browse the Internet

• Open source multi-lingual speech recognition software

• Display screen friendly for low vision users and to browse the Internet

• Applications such as Banking, Retail, Health, Emergency guidance, Learning, Weather, Scanning, Office suite

• Applications such as Banking, Retail, Health, Emergency guidance, Learning, Weather, Scanning, Office suite

• Application for contextual alerts and reminders

• Application for contextual alerts and reminders

• Application for community connect

• Application for community connect

• Talking Accessible keypad with large alphabets and numerals

• Talking Accessible keypad with large alphabets and numerals

• 6 basic keys for Dial/Answer, Disconnect, GPS, Proximity sensor, Text to speech, Speech recognition

• 6 basic keys for Dial/Answer, Disconnect, GPS, Proximity sensor, Text to speech, Speech recognition

• FM radio for local news, entertainment, alerts

• FM radio for local news, entertainment, alerts

• Gesture recognition• Gesture recognition

• Gyroscope to measure acceleration, shakes, vibration shock, or fall

• Gyroscope to measure acceleration, shakes, vibration shock, or fall

• Digital compass (magnetometer), to detect direction

• Digital compass (magnetometer), to detect direction

Visual representation of Mobile Phone Assistive Technology device eco-system

App store: Differently-abled and Elderly support

Social Network (Community connect )

Differently-abled users

Elderly Users

24X7 Support

TEAM• Sunil J Mathew ( Social Entrepreneur) – The idea and concept came to Sunil through his experience of having worked with visually

challenged youth through the past 10 years . Having started the charitable org SRVC (www.visuallychallenged.com) to having an full fledged world class orchestra comprising of visually challenged artistes and musicians, to the latest project being a training centre offering computer training, personality development, communication skills and mobility sessions for the past 2.5 years ( www.rcg-srvc.info) , Sunil is the driver of this idea and wants to ensure that this takes off the ground and the device ultimately can be used by the target audience its developed for. Sunil and his team at Systica are all set to start work with the prototype once the deserving first level of funding / incubation for the project is possible.

• Remesh Govind ( Technologist) - With the experience of having worked with multiple corporations for 15 years Remesh

Govind, shares the same passion with Sunil on the idea and brings to the table his analytical and application development skills and is set to lead the device coding team to make this project a reality.

• Jijesh A ( Management Student/ Inspiration) - Having come up the hard way and mastering skills of computing to a MBA from an US

University, being probably one of the most successful visually challenged young person - is the fire behind the concept and an inspiration to the whole team. Jijesh is partnering many organisations on several technology related open source projects and has found several scholarships and awards.