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Evolution of technology has always been endeavored with making daily life simple. With a fast paced life everybody today is harnessing the benefits of technology except some parts of the society. One of them is the visually impaired who have to rely on others for travelling and other activities. This project aims at providing one such practical model which incorporates the latest technology to provide efficient and smart electronic aid to the blind. This project describes about implementation and deployment of system which provides voice assistance to visually challenged people so that they do not rely on others for travelling. This project uses ARM11 based microprocessor for providing voice assistance based on hurdle detected by Ultrasonic Sensors which are embedded on blind stick. Along with voice assistance for travelling, smart blind stick provides an email alert to the registered smart phone when user in panic situation. The objective of email alert is to provide information about location of person to relatives, and to provide GPS Co-ordinates and captured image of the location. For accessing GPS Co-ordinates the system uses GPS module and for capturing image of location camera is used. The complete system uses Raspberry Pi build around using ARM1176JZF-S Microprocessor. This project has interface devices such as camera, Ultrasonic Sensor, GPS, Speakers to microprocessor. This basic goal of the project is to provide a convenient and easy navigation aid for visually challenged person which helps in artificial vision by providing information about static and dynamic object around them.