SmartON — AI Smart Glasses for the Blind

SmartON is a pair of AI smart glasses plus a companion app designed for people who are blind or have low vision. Point your face at a page and it reads the printed text aloud. Hold up a note and it tells you the denomination. Ask what is in front of you and it describes the scene. Everything works by voice, in 50+ languages, so the device fits how people actually talk — not the other way around.

The product lives at getsmartonai.com, and it is not a prototype or a lab demo. It ships, it gets daily use, and its users are the harshest and most valuable QA team any product could ask for.

SmartON was created by Deep Parmar and the team at Sunbots Innovations LLP, an AI product company in Ahmedabad, India. Deep is Sunbots' CTO and co-founder and has been building AI products since 2019; SmartON is the one closest to his reason for doing this work — putting the power of AI directly in people's hands, starting with the people who benefit from it most.

A blind user cannot browse a menu of AI features, so SmartON does not have one. Instead, every spoken request goes to MIRA, SmartON's multilingual assistant, which decides what the request actually needs and routes it to the right capability:

• OCR / text reading — printed text, labels, documents, and signboards read aloud.
• Object detection — including currency identification, one of the most-requested features from users.
• Scene understanding — a spoken description of what is in front of the wearer.
• Document search — asking questions about a document instead of listening to all of it.

The user just talks. MIRA handles intent, language, and routing, and answers by voice in the language it was asked in. I have written up the routing architecture in detail in MIRA: an AI router deep dive, and what voice-first design means when your users cannot see the screen in voice-first UX for blind users.

More than 17,000 blind and visually-impaired people use SmartON today. That number grew the unglamorous way: shipping, listening, and fixing. Early versions taught the team lessons no spec document could — that latency is an accessibility feature, that a wrong currency reading destroys trust faster than any crash, and that supporting 50+ languages is not a checkbox but a daily commitment when your users span India's linguistic map.

The full build story — what worked, what failed, and what changed after real users got involved — is in Building SmartON: assistive AI in production.

Imported assistive smart glasses are typically priced for Western markets — often running into lakhs of rupees once they reach India — which puts them out of reach for most of the people who need them here. SmartON was designed from day one to invert that: build in India, engineer the cost down, and price for Indian households rather than importing a premium product and adding a margin. Accessibility hardware that most blind users cannot afford is not really accessible.

Current pricing and availability are on the official site, getsmartonai.com. For where the wearable AI category is heading, see smart glasses and wearable AI in 2026.