The award winning project aims to develop a system that enables blind and visually impaired persons to read by means of a mobile device. The device reads out various information displays for everyday use such as microwave, advertising or transport information.

The panel of experts, on judging the ‘ONCE International R&D Award’, underlined that the project aimed to meet an important need for visually impaired persons, namely, easy access to information. Experts felt that the novel device can become a highly useful tool in daily life.

The award is a biennial one and with a prize of 240,000.00 € (approximately Rupees 1,20,00,000). It is aimed at fomenting technological developments that substantially contributes to easing the integration and mainstreaming of blind and visually impaired persons.

Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles (O.N.C.E.) or the Spanish National Organisation of the Blind is based in Madrid, Spain. It was founded on 13 December 1938.