Smart Protection from Electricity Hazards in Children's Room

Abstract

Now days, new methods, ideas and applications are reinforcing safety in our home environment. Children's safety is a major concern for all parents, especially the new ones. Potential dangers are hidden everywhere, even in the children's room. Motivated by the necessity for additional safety, we employed smart technology to develop a sensor based system for reducing hazards from electricity, such as electric shocks. A smart system for additional protection was designed, targeting the periods in which parents are absent and the children alone in their room. The proposed system adds value in existing safety measures, since it works complementary to them. The main idea is based on the detection of the presence of adults in the room. Depending on parents' presence, the smart system decides which sockets are allowed to be active and which are not. Android software forwards observations on the activity to the parent's mobile phone and allows easier management. A prototype of the system has been developed and tested, without the participation of children in the experiments.