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Design of Wearable Device for Child Safety

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M.Benisha Thandaiah Prabu R Gowri.M Vishali.K

Department of Electronics Department of Electronics Department of Electronics Department of Electronics
and communication and communication and communication and communication
Engineering, Jeppiaar Engineering, Jeppiaar Engineering, Jeppiaar Engineering, Jeppiaar
Institute of Institute of Institute of Institute of
Technology,Sriperumpudur, Technology,Sriperumpudur, Technology,Sriperumpudur, Technology,Sriperumpudur,
Kunnam, India Kunnam, India Kunnam, India Kunnam, India

Divya Priyadharshini.R M. Anisha Ponmozhi Chezhiyan C. Jim Elliot

Department of Electronics Department of Biomedical Department of Computer Department of Biomedical
and communication Engineering Application Engineering
Engineering, Jeppiaar Kalasalingam Academy of Kalasalingam Academy of Kalasalingam Academy of
Institute of Research and Education, Research and Education, Research and Education,
Technology,Sriperumpudur, Krishnankoil, Virdhunagar, Krishnankoil, Virdhunagar, Krishnankoil, Virdhunagar,
Kunnam, India Tamilnadu, India. Tamilnadu, India. Tamilnadu, India.
[email protected]

Abstract— Now-a-days attacks on children are increasing at The key idea planned in this paper is based on an advanced
an unprecedented rate and the victims are in dangerous technology that offers “Smart Child Safety” to safeguard the
conditions, where they are not allowed to contact the family children and this planned structure will be highly effective
members. The key idea planned in this research work is an
from other existing techniques in helping the victims.
advanced technology that offers “S mart Child S afety” for the
children. Therefore, the awareness of this method is to send an The device obtains IOT monitoring and GSM module
S MS fromchildren’s wear tool to their parent or guardian. In the keeps monitoring the children anytime. The method has
prevailing structure, there is no monitoring method for child, it sensors and interfaced with the processor, which keeps sensing
should create many problems for them and the no protection the vibrant signals such as beat rate, temperature, etc.
mechanism to protect the child from the misbehavior. In whenever some risky conditions be caused by there may be an
addition, there is no aware device for the child’s protection; it indication to parental. When the person crosses the zone (say a
must be completed by hand only. Thus, the planned method will school zone) unfortunately due to some accident, then this
be highly effective when compared to the other existing method automatically sends the information to the parental.
techniques in helping the victims. Moreover, it doesn’t need any
The inspiration for developing the wearable device
manual operation. This paper recommends a newfangled
technology for child protection by using GS M so that the
comes from the improving requirement for protection for
children will not feel abandoned while facing such social small children in recent periods as there can be a condition of
problems. The problems overawed here using Arduino UNO, the kid getting missing in the highly packed zones. In recent
GS M, sensors, MEMS , temperature and panic button by using days, accident happens lot and missing children are rapidly
IOT. In such case, Heartbeat S ensor track the best rate for improving. This paper focuses on helping a lost child with the
children and sends the emergency message by using the GS M to help of proposed wearable device and reunited with the parent.
save contacts. S uch method is actually supportive for children in The protection of children is a concern of largely improving
today’s world. Hence, this provides a security to the children and urgency in India and other countries. Nowadays, even though,
secures the feeling of parents. with technology mounting at a wild pace, computerized
Keywords—Arduino UNO; wearable device; IOT; GSM; GPS
vehicle tracking technique is available and is being used in a
variety of ways to track and display the locations of the
vehicles in instantaneous. In this paper, consumed idea was
I. INT RODUCT ION tracking the child with the help of the wearable device instead
In today’s world, violent act against the children has increased of vehicle.
unprecedently and the victims are found in dangerous The planned wearable is added like a protected
conditions, where they cannot take the cell phone to contact method in case of backup. It is a simple to hold the device
the family members or police. In recent days, children can’t with extra functions and supports. The alternative push button
roam freely due to some type of misuse and a fear of ferocity. is used during emergency. The main resolution of this device
Even though so many safety devices have been offered by the is to inform the parent and police about the current location of
emerging technology and still it is happening in many places. the children if the emergency push button is under use. To
locate the current area GPS method is used and a GSM

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modem is helping to share the information via SMS message stand-in on body segments. The frontal effect with a several
to the predefined numbers and the nearest police stations. impact speeds were analyzed. For all tested configurations a
Proposed model uses MEMS accelerometer to reduce the risk higher risk of serious damage to the skull and neckline was
of abuse by sending SMS but in the is provided, if dangerous spotted for a forward-facing child seat.
condition be caused, notifies to parent. Thus, by overcoming A system was designed to track [6] the school going
the drawbacks of the existing method the innovative approach children. This method guarantees that a child is safe while
is undertaken. travelling from their house to school or vice versa. Parents will
Recently, all over the social order crime against be intimated when the kid passes in and leaves school. This
children is improving at higher rates and it is high time to over data is also stored in the school’s database. At any given time,
protection support method for the children coming and going the parent can check the location of the kid using GPS on the
to school. Planned method is a try to provide child protection android application and if any misuse they will get intimated.
by enabling them to place an emergency service to the An idea of a wearable smart device for little children
registered contacts quick, discreet way. The use of the claim is was presented in [7]. The major advantage of this device is
divided into three methods first is based on Electronic kit that that it can be used on any mobile phone and doesn't essent ially
is GPS for child protection, second is IOT for child protection want an exclusive mobile phone to operate. Therefore, the
and final is SMS for child protection, with SMS to emergency focus of this work is to have an SMS text conversation
contacts and web portal. between the child's wearable and the parent as the
This manuscript is systematized as follows; Section II environment for GSM mobile communication is almost
summarizes the related works; Section III presents the existing universally.
proposed method and section IV details about the results and Security method children planned in [8] allow instant answers
discussion. Finally, Section V concludes the manuscript. in any harassment in public places, societies, etc. It is not
advisable to keep children unattended at a social event or
outdoor. This method resolves both the problems by using
II. RELATED WORKS GSM and GPS. A model has been planned at [9] helps to
As a part of this work, fair and comprehensive related works ensure the protection of children. Since the emergency person
are referred to and presented here. In [1] the author in danger can’t be able to respond proficiently in dangerous
investigated the safety and secrecy of Internet-connected conditions, an emergency device is required, which gets
children smart toys through case studies of three available information in case of emergency. The aim of the
commercially-obtainable products. Static and dynamic device is to help parent locate their children with ease. This
analysis techniques are conducted including application also provides an SMS enabled communication medium
network observing. These susceptibilities, especially safety between children and parent GSM mobile. More real time
defects in network communications with first-party attendants, precise location of the child upon selecting will afford
are revealing of a detach between many IoT toy designers and direction to the child’s location, so the parent can keep track.
safety and secrecy best practices despite bigger attention to To antedate the existence of crime against children a
Internet related toy hacking dangers. Through a grouping of model is planned in [10]. A person detector method that using
static and dynamic analysis, several formerly undisclosed GPS Module, GSM Shield, and the Arduino can provide a
exposures were exposed, including ignored encryption and solution for monitoring children. The test results showed that
authentication, POST token reuse, sensitive user information GPS Module, GSM Shield, and Arduino were capable to effort
in crash reports, and secret keys in source code. This steady to notice the position of the children and able to
defenselessness violates the toys’ individual secrecy policies monitor the crusade of children by limiting certain areas as the
as well as federal COPPA regulations for handling children’ boundary of the allowed movement of children.
data. A method described in [11] consists of a nursing device,
In [2-4], they discussed the idea of a tidy wearable which gets stimulated when the device is tapped upon then the
method for little children. The intention of the device is to text and voice message is received by the received contact.
benefit parent to track down the children easily. The device Supplementary, the person who receives the notices can find
tracks the day-to-day action of children and also helps to find and track the location without the interaction of the victim’s
the child using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The wearable device is application at each and every day. This framework can be
able to act as a small IOT device. It offers parents with real carried out at any place effortlessly and exploited at whatever
time updated data, nearby temperature, UV radiation and SOS time without much client association and with best operations.
light along with suffering alarm buzzer for their child’s On reviewing the existing approaches, they are promising and
environments and place their kid to rescue the child. accessible devices, but still require an advanced device with
In [5] investigated the habit of rear-facing child cool features.
restraint methods for transporting children and toddlers are a
standard in some countries. During an anterior collision, if III. METHODOLOGY
RFCRS is used, the impact loads are spread over the back of Schematic representation of the proposed approach is
the head, neck, torso and pelvis of the kid. The distribution of specified in Fig 1. Arduino UNO – Atmega 328p
impact loads on a larger area results in lower values of forces microcontroller performance like an entrenched calculating

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device and it reins the actions of all the subsystems. It is being through GSM as SMS. For example, the heart beat sensor
interfaced with all the other modules of the device such as tracks the pulse rate for respective child & sends emergency
Heartbeat and a temperature sensor, MEMS accelerometer, message using IOT to cloud & police control room if there is a
GPS and GSM Module and also with IoT Module. The considerable gap between threshold and sensed value. The
number of times the heart beats per minute (BPM), is referred method has proven that it is providing complete security to
as heart beat rate and the beat of the heart that can be sensed in child’s wherever they are using it. In this method, GPS
any artery that deceits close to the skin is the pulse, and is module also have been introduced and it will track the location
determined by heartbeat sensor. MEMS devices are, becoming and all the sensor values are recorded in IOT.
more popular because of its smaller size, less mass and Few parameters have interfaced, hence when those
volume, very less power intake, less cost, easy to integrate into parameters crossed threshold value, these values are recorded
systems or modify, small thermal constant, can be highly in IOT. Thus, the child will be feels like safe and protected.
strong to vibration, shock and radiation, can be fabricated in No manual operation is needed in this method. The user might
large arrays, improved thermal expansion tolerance have better protection than the existing method in case of
and parallelism. GPS stands for "Global Positioning System." emergency. Though there are multiple applications are
GPS is a satellite navigation system used to locate the position available to reduce the risk of abuse by sending SMS but in
of any location. IoT devices are realized with both hardware this model MEMS accelerometer is provided, if any dangerous
and software modules. Particular hardware components are condition that can also be notified to parents. Thus, by
used to appliance the interface with the physical world, and in overcoming the disadvantages of the current method the new
turn it performs tasks which are more computationally planned method is developed and demonstrated in this paper.
complex.
The Proposed device is connected with server via
internet, which helps to real time tracking of their children. IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The intended solution proceeds the advantage of finding the The obtained results are discussed in this section. In most of
absolute location of the kid by GPS service and the the literature, the proposed module is provided with some
information is updated to the end user, i.e their parent or LCD Display and the information is shared through SMS. In
relatives of the children through the mobile application and the proposed prototype, the end user terminal is equipped with
also through SMS. a mobile application, that can be accessed by authorized
people with login credentials and the location and emergency
information also shared through SMS to the registered mobile
numbers and nearby police station through GPS and GSM.
Fig 2, shows the end user login page of the device IOT
application. This allows only the authorized registered persons
to enter and view the details about the children.

Fig.1. Block Diagram of proposed method

It is a reliable and secure method for the protection of

children. Here a device is introduced which ensures the
protection of children as mentioned before. When the children
wearing this device, the various sensors such as Heart beat
sensor, MEMS, Temperature and Humidity sensor will sense
the respective values and give it to the microcontroller. Based
on the threshold values of heart beat rate, surrounding Fig 2. Login page
temperature and humidity, the controller will compare and real
values. And by using IOT the same will be updated in the Once the user has entered into the login page, they will be
cloud server in return to the mobile application. In case of shown with the information page, which will show the Login
absence of the internet services the information will be shared

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date & time, surrounding temperature of the child wearing the

device, status of MEMS accelerometer as DETECTED/NOT,
Location details such as latitude and longitude of the location
where the child is and the status of Panic button as
DETECTED/NOT. The same information also shared through
SMS to the registered mobile numbers at every 30 minutes
starting from the kid is more than 1KM away from the parent
or guardian. If any emergency situation is sensed, the message
will be sent to nearby police station control room with the help
of GPS and GSM services. Fig 3 shows the alert message from
user by using cloud without using any signal. Therefore,
parent or guards will know the information about their
children.

Fig 4. Information Message

Fig 4. represents the messages from user. If children are in

dangerous condition, the messages automatically sent to the
parent or guards via SMS.

V. CONCLUSION
The planned mechanism provides a better
methodology to view & track the location of the children in
Fig 3. Information Page
terms of latitude and longitude which can additionally track
using Google maps. This way benefits to decrease the
misconduct against child being safe and secure is the mandate
of the day. The major work behind this project is to design and
formulate a gadget which is so condensed in itself that provide
the advantages of the own safety method specially for the
children. This design is proposed to solve most of the
dangerous disputes challenged with child and will help them
to be protected. It is used to locate the lost children in any time
with the real time location and also send the notification to
their parent or guard. It is used by the Arduino module to
overcome GSM by using IT to better Communication and
heartbeat sensor and MEMS accelerator is also added. If an
accident happens, message with location sends instantly to the
registered contacts and also to the nearest police stations and
rescue the children.

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