Developing an IoT-based Child Safety and Monitoring System: An Efficient Approach

In the era of the competitive world, everyone is busy with their professional lives that it’s difficult to keep monitoring the daily status of their children. Parents or guardians are always vigilant for the safety and physical condition of their children. To monitor and ensure a child’s safety, an efficient, and user-friendly IoT solution is proposed in this research that can easily sync parents with their children in real time. The movement of the children is regularly monitored through an application, and if children face emergencies or critical situations, they can easily make aware their parents. Child’s instant positions and health conditions (i.e., heart rate, blood oxygen level, temperature level, and humidity levels) can be detected and monitored through the proposed IoT systems. In the event of a critical situation, parents can get all the emergency stations and make decisions instantly through an app. The proposed system also ensures a child’s movement within a range and sends an SMS to the parents if he or she tries to go out. Additionally, parents can check all the history of their children, which has created a scope to apply machine learning-based algorithms to identify the habitual activities of the children. Several real-time experiments have been conducted in different locations using different sensors and components. This research creates a user-friendly environment for parents and children and also ensures related issues for child safety and monitoring that make the work unique.