Dubai, Sep 12 (TIWN) Two UAE-based Indian nationals developed a smartphone app that can help visually impaired people.

The project which has two parts, the smartphone app and a special glove, was one of the winning projects in the Ma'an Social Incubator programme of Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, that aims to support people of determination.  "Ioptyc utilises the power of Google Tensorflow Lite for visual recognition of objects in front of the user, who may be visually impaired," Prathap told Khaleej Times.  "Once the object in front of the person is detected, the app sends an alert and announces the name of the object over the user's headphone, with the help of Google natural languages package," he explained.  The glove, on the other hand, notifies the user through vibrations from the buzzer.   "The glove's sensors are capable of detecting objects as far as two metres away, and the intensity of vibrations varies depending on how far the object is from the user."