A Cost Effective IoT-based System for Monitoring Baby Incidents by Deaf Parents

Abstract

The importance of modern technology is prevalent in our lives for it helps us achieve our everyday activities and tasks. People with special needs represent a significant segment of the society and always require some sort of assistance to make their lives as normal as possible. Indeed, technological advancements can be exploited to achieve this endeavor. In this research, deaf mothers are guided to detect the needs of their babies by employing the Internet of Things and a mobile application. This research proposes a new algorithm to monitor children during their sleep based on successive periodic snapshots or sound, and when detecting any change in their environment the smart monitoring system alerts the mother by shaking a wearable bracelet or ringing her mobile phone. The proposed system has been implemented and tested and has been proven to be superior to other systems with respect to the implementation cost, accuracy of alerts, flexibility, and energy consumption.