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CHILD DIGITAL MONITORING AND

CONTROLLING SYSTEM
[1]
Mrs. Saranya M,[2] Devaram S,[3] Sudharshan D,[4] Vigneshkumar V, [5] Vimanthan M
[1]
AP/IT,, Department of Information Technology Hindusthan institute of Technology.
[2][3][4][5]
Final year, Department of Information Technology Hindusthan institute of Technology.

Abstract: The world is changing rapidly due to information technology, and all the people around the world are busy with their jobs, and
business, adjusting to this race. Now, parents are giving more time at their business, office, and jobs,instead of passing the time at home, but
they always get worried and scared about their children due to abuse of Information Technology and the country'slaw and order situation. So,
parents are wanted to track and monitor their child's activities and location from anywhere to resolve their pressure. But is not possible for every
parent to monitor their child physically due to many reasons. This paper presents a system that will help parents monitor their childactivities
from anywhere using a mobile phone to solve the problem. This android app uses global positioning system (GPS) and mobile services to findthe
child location and secretly stored all the call logs, hort message service (SMS) logs, contact lists, and accurate locations without knowing the
children.Children assume that they are using Facebook, browsing the net or watching videos from youtube.
It will not hamper any activities of the child. Parents cancheck all the activities of children using this app.

1. INTRODUCTION

Due to the rapid development of cities and growing industries in almost all the countries worldwide, more people live in the city rather
than in the village. Parents keep their children with them due to many urban areas like better school, health care facilities, baby care
centres, and parents. As per the United Nations (U.N.) World Urbanization report, more people living in urban areas than rural areas.
According to the report, in 2017,
4.1 billion people lived in urban areas, which indicates that more than 55% of people are residing in cities [1]. The statistic report
published by S. O'Dea, February 28, 2020, shows the predicated quantity of mobile users worldwide from 2019 to 2023.
By 2020, mobile users worldwide are predicted to rise to 6.95 billion, increasing to 7.33 billion in 2023 [2]. Another report on
smartphone users showed that the number of users in 2019 was 3.2 billion worldwide and is forecast to grow by several hundred million
in the next few years, which would be 3.8 billionin 2021. The top smartphone users belong to China, India, and the United States, easily
exceeding the 100 million user mark [3]. Many children are also using the smartphone in the world; they use the mobile to access the
internet and play games. The United States of America USA's report says that more than half of children use a mobile phone, which is
approximately 53% by 11 and 84% now have their smartphones [4]. Another survey report on U.K. children who belong to the age of
5-16 has shown that 53 per cent of youngstersowned mobile phones by around the age of seven. It also said that 90% of children have
their device by the ageof 11, and owning a smartphone is "almost universal" once children are in secondary school [5]. Another
reportbased on four countries like Japan, India, Egypt, and Paraguay has been shown that Egypt has 94%, followed by Paraguay with
78%, India 57%, and Japan 52%. The report has compared mobile phone usage rates by underage users of various age groups among
the four countries. Egypt has a high rate of earlyage mobile users: more than 80% of Egyptian children use mobile from age 8. In India,
Japan, and Paraguay, children mobile usage rates increasing from age 10 [6]. So, it is very clear evidence that children are very
interested in using smartphones worldwide, which is currently a very concern issue.

On the other hand, As per Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam's words, “Youngsters are the future pillars of one's nation”, today's children are
tomorrows leaders; preserving their dreams and lives a better future is crucial forevery nation [7]. Nowadays, kids' can know about
present technology through a smart device. It may affecttheir physical and mental development and hamper their educational and
communal life. Parents are gettingworried about these things [8]-[10]. Considering the present situation, parents need smart technology
formonitoring and controlling their children's movement. In our digital era, children use smart devices like tablets.
For this reason, parents need to know how many times they use tablets, which type of website they visit, and which site theyspend their
time on more. Everything is possible through using automated technology. So parents need automated technology for this purpose [11].
In this circumstance, every parent tries to give their best concern to take care of their children to save them from the dark world and
the technology's bad effects to save their children's future. The research has been given more focus on parental control over children's
mobile devices.

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2. LITERATURE REVIEW

A smart mobile phone provides various up to date services to us. Using the global positioning system (GPS), we can get to know our
devices' geographic location and give information through hort message service (SMS) service. Al-Mazloum et al. used these two
services in their proposed system. They introduced GPS and SMS-based child tracking system using smart phone [12]. This paper
describes how a smart mobile phone helps parents track their children in real-time. Most kids and parents use an android mobile phone,
and they know the mobile phone's available service. Their proposed system consists of two sides, the child side and the parent side. A
request SMS goes to the child's device to know the child's exact location from the parent device. After getting the request SMS, the
child's device replies to the parent's device's GPS position.

Kothawade et al. [13] proposed a system “multi-platform application for parent and school using GPS tracking”. In this paper, they
developed a GPS based application system for an organization and parents mobiles. The organization can use this application for
monitoring and tracking the location of the school buses. Parents can get the addresses of their children and locate them on his/her
mobile devices. School authority also can monitor and track the school buses timely and ensures the safety of children. It also allows
parents to track real-time information about the school bus during travels. Almomani et al. [14] proposed a system with two types of
applications a web application and a mobile application for a user facility. A user can access this system at any time from anywhere.
There are two sides: client-server. The server-side carries a GPRS, a web, and an SMS server, and the client-side contains a GPS tracker
and a GPS modem. The user information is stored in the database on the server-side [14]. There is another similar concept used by Al-
Suwaidi and Zemerly [15] in their proposed system named “locating friends and family using mobile phones with a global positioning
system (GPS)”. They have also developed two approaches: the client-server approach. This paper showed both clients have the same
control and command privileges, whereas the other system does not provide it.

Gao et al. [16] developed a security method named child guard on smart devices for observing children's activities in real-time.
Guardians used this system at a low cost, and they can get better benefits by using this system. Satish et al. [17] described their paper
about an android application used to track missing children. The android application works with two services: GPS and SMS service.
The GPS is used to track the location of the missing child. If GPS service is unable, the application can work with SMS service by
sending and receiving the message. There is another paper where the researcher Bhoi et al. [18] implements aproject based on a
particular area for each child. When the child comes out of this specific area of their school,then an alert message sends to the parent's
mobile phone by using a panic switch. Saranya et al. [19] proposeda child monitoring system based on android phones for the children's
security. This system helps the parents toknow whether their children are safe or not. This system consists of two functions. The
software hand function monitors the child's activities, and the danger zone function alerts the guardians about their children's location
by using GPS sensors, acceleration sensors, and mobile geographic information systems GIS. Subramanian and Govindarajan, [20]
discussed different type of Location Prediction Techniques in their study.

In this paper, they have used data mining techniques to find mobile users' movements' locations. Kaittan et al. [21] designed a
monitoring system for infant baby in "Smart management system for monitoring and control of infant baby bed”. This paper designed
a baby bed with an intelligent system and used the sensor to monitor the baby. Okilas et al. [22] designed a “Location-based service
for information publication using GPS on android-based mobile phone”. In this paper, the difference in the accuracy of the GPS readings
used in mobile the shifting point is about 18 meters. Table 1 shows recent child tracking researches, methods, and limitation of current
researches. In the discussion, most researchers focused on children monitoring systems to protect them from anyunwanted accident,
missing, and making them secure and safe. But in our research, we introduced a system that will be used to save the children and be
used to observe their mobile activities without children's consent.

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Article Specification Method Limitation

[23] Focusing on conflict of language Putonghua is a language This paper focuses only on the conflict of
selections between parents and their management strategy language between rural parents and their urban
children, the study focuses on families children. However, it does not focus on the
who migrated from rural to urban areas tracking of child activities.
[24] Focusing on child's play activity level, t-tests This paper finds a pattern between play and
activity type, and public interaction social interaction. However, it does not deal withthe
during play hidden behaviour of children
[25] Focusing on factors environment Super systems of This research shows an environmental impact on
influence on children their behaviours underprivileged children. However, it ignores many important factors
preschoolers in children behavioural development.

[26] Focusing on harmful technological effect an integrated system of This paper only focuses on the bad effect of
on human behaviour and how technology environmental education technology on a human being. However, it does
hamper the harmony of man and nature of preschool children not explain how technologies hamper children
creativities.
[27] Focusing on cortex activity in children customized Only focus on brain development activities of
age between 0 and 2. pediatricmagnetoenceph children. However, it does not explain how
alographic system mobile technology effect cortex activity.

[28] Focusing on childhood obesity quasi-experimental Only focus on the childhood obesity epidemic.
prevention interventions. pragmatic trial However, it does not explain the technological
impact on obesity.
[29] Focusing on autism associated with representational Only focus on autistic children behaviour. But
unusual activation during face processing similarity analysis Autistic children psychological activities can be
observed using mobile apps.

1. RESEARCH METHOD
In our proposed system, we emphasized the security of a child. This system consists of two sides: child and parent side. The main aim
of this system helps parents to observe their children's activities from anywhere. In Bangladesh, most of the parents are working outside
of the house. They cannot look after their children by keeping their side. They give a smartphone to their children to know the activities
of them. That's why we have developed an android app for a mobile device that provides various services to parents. In the children's
mobile phone, there is a secret app. From this app, parents can see where their children are going, what they are using on their mobile
phone, and which website they have visited. Parents can also listen to their call history from call records. Figure 1 shows the block
diagram and Figure 2 flow chart of the developed system

Figure 2 shows the application process flow using flow symbols, where a user has to login into the system. If the user logins as a child,
the user can access the application, browse different websites, watch videos through youtube, and call any person, but all the information
will be stored in the database hidden from children.On the other hand, after login into the system, a parent can check the child's
smartphone and view all activities.

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Figure 2. Flowchart for child monitoring application

3. IMPLEMENTATION
As we know, there are two account options in this child monitoring system: one for parent and another onefor a child, as Figure
3. At first, running this app needs registration, then log in. To sign up for the system, a child must have to use email and password, but
the parents must complete this signup task without informing them on the children's smartphone. Figure 3 is also showing the login page
of the child page. Besides this, parents have to install the same app on their smartphone andregister by giving their Name, email address
as given in the child app, and thepassword as like in Figure 4. After that, a parent can log in to the system to view the details of the
children.

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Figure 3. The home screen of child monitoring system (CMS) and login page of child

Figure 4. Signup page for parents

1. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

This section describes the outcomes of our proposed method. Sub section 5.1 focus parents’ login procedure and child call/browsing
history. In the next sub section, child registration procedure and their activities are explained. Child does not aware of the parents’
section and their monitoring procesure.

1.1. Parents section

Primarily, we described the parent's section. To login into the system, parents have to input all of therequired information like a name,
password, as Figure 5. If all the information match with the database, then aguardian can be able to login into the system, that a parent
can track the current child location, as Figure 6, which shows the page of the GPS location of the child application, this is a real-time
location track from the child mobile.
Furthermore, a parent can check the call history from their children's mobile phone as Figure 7 to be aware of their childhood friends
list and gossiping them. Besides this, parents are also able to view the SMS history of their children and also can check the internet
browsing history from their children's mobile phone asFigure 8 which is very important for a parent to monitor their children's all
smartphone activities and protectedthem from any misuse of smartphone.

Figure 5. A sign-in page for parents

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Figure 6. GPS location

Figure 7. Call history of child mobile Figure 8. SMS History

3.1. Child section

Secondly, the activities of the children in this app are going to be discussed in this section. At first, this app has to be installed on child
smartphone by the parents, and a child cannot know about this app. Parents must have to manage this app confidentially. They will
register, log in to the child mobile phone app secretly. Figure 9 shows the child's registration page; according to Figure 10, in the child
section, use the key “789789” used in the parent's application. In child smartphone, this app looks like a Facebook page, and they can
use this page to login into Facebook. The child can enjoy all facilities of Facebook as usual. But, behind the Facebook page, the app
will work hidden as Figure 10.

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Figure 9. Child registration page Figure 10. Browser page of the child app

Generally, children like to watch movies on YouTube. In Figure 11 shows a sample scenario of YouTube, which a child likes to use.
But, when parents will log in to the system from parent's apps, they can get all information about watched movies or videos of children,
which is crucial for parents to monitor their child activities and save them from the virtual world's dark side. Similarly, children can
visit different websites

from their smartphones without any obstacles and can search any websites using a search engine like Google, shown in Figure 12.
Parents can check the browsing history from their smartphones and be tenseless about their children's online activities and can take any
steps if necessary to protect them from misuse of the virtual world and appreciate their good activities without notifying them.

Figure 11. Browser page of the child app Figure 12. Browser page of the child app

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3. CONCLUSION

It is a big benefit for the parents that many children are using smartphone while in school, and that iswhy the guardian can monitor the
children's activities and track the children through accessing smartphone, which is very important for busy guardians. This paper
presented research that will help guardians monitor their child activities from anywhere using smartphone whenever they want from
any location. They can also check their children current location, which websites they have visited, how many calls. They have given
to friends or others the SMS logs and which video they have watched without informing and hampering the children's activities to be
aware of their child activities in the future if they find any terrible habit of their children. This app is very useful for parents to monitor
their children and to resolve their mental pressure.

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