Smart glove with gesture recognition ability for the hearing and speech impaired

With the advent of wearable technology, it is now possible to implement numerous and extremely creative ideas to serve humanity in unprecedented ways. Thus inspired, we have developed a smart system which would be able to serve as best friend to the hearing and speech impaired person. The primary goal of this paper is to design and implement a low cost wired interactive glove, interfaced with a computer running MATLAB or Octave, with a high degree of accuracy for gesture recognition. The glove maps the orientation of the hand and fingers with the help of bend sensors, Hall Effect sensors and an accelerometer. The data is then transmitted to a computer using automatic repeat request (ARQ) as an error controlling scheme. The system is modeled for the differently abled section of the society to help convert sign language to a more human understandable form such as textual messages.