Smart Baby cradle

Cradle is a device that is used to put babies to sleep. Cradle has a side- to-side rocking motion that eases the baby and put it to sleep. It takes lot of efforts from parent to physically rock the cradle to generate swinging motion. When baby is kept inside the cradle need to be constant monitoring parent to keep to track of baby's activity. The proposed idea in this prototype of smart cradle will allow the cradle to efficiently integrate itself with a smartphone typically android device. An Arduino microcontroller will be used to assemble all the sensors and hardware component required. Constant monitoring of the baby inside the cradle will be done. If any activity such as urination or baby waking up from sleep occurs a notification through an SMS will be sent to the parent's device. The Smart cradle will also have additional features such as rocking the baby automatically via geared motor mechanism. Also with some additional features such as watching the baby live through Arduino camera. Use of various sensors such as PIR (passive infrared) sensor to detect light level inside the cradle, and PCB for sensing wet conditions etc. will only add to the efficiency of the cradle. The cradle is suitable for parents who are not able to invest all their time at home sitting near the baby. Other applications of this cradle can be at a maternity hospital as an assistant to the staff who are responsible to look after the baby.