Creators

Kwong Hau Shing, Owen Department of Electronic Engineering

Lam Nga Wai, Chole Department of Electronic Engineering 

Lau Kam Hon, Kelvin Department of Electronic Engineering 

Chung Wing Lam, Olive Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering 

Asad Raza Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering 

About the Work

Visually impaired people (VIP) keep a lot of cards in their wallets. They cannot identify and tell them apart easily, so it takes them a while to pick the right one. To cope with this situation, we built a device to help them to identify those cards more easily. Apart from the device we built, we also designed a card holder which allows VIPs to keep those cards organised. The design of the cardholder provides a convenient way to the users to identify cards with our device.

Mechanism

Our design revolves around developing a card identification device which uses an NFC scanner to read the passive NFC tag on each card, and then compares the data with the database. Once a matching record is found, the pre-recorded sound track will play to let the user know which card they are holding. If there are no matching records, the device will tell the user that there is no match. In that particular case, the device will prompt the user to record a new sound track and add it as a new card in the database.

Awards

Hong Kong ICT Awards (HKICTA) 2019: The Student Innovation Grand Award and the Student Innovation (Post-Secondary and Undergraduate) Gold Award