Improved Child Safety Using Edge-Fog-Cloud Enabled Smart IoT Wearable Device: An Architecture

Abstract

Child safety is of paramount importance as it directly impacts the development, well-being, and future of the children. Ensuring their safety is a collective responsibility shared by parents, caregivers, communities, and society as a whole. Smart wearable devices for child safety can play a significant role in enhancing the security and well-being of children. In market, several child tracking and monitoring devices are available but have some limitations such as unreliable communication, low accuracy, unavailability of real-time data processing and analysis, etc. To address these limitations, an Edge-Fog-Cloud enabled smart IoT wearable device for improved child safety is proposed in this paper. The architecture of the proposed system is composed of two modules, namely child module and parent module. The child module consists of four submodules for GPS, hearbeat, voice and image sensing. The parent module has a smart-phone application submodule. Further, the methodology and process workflow of the proposed architecture are explained in this paper. The authors are working on the implementation of the proposed architecture and it is the future work of this paper.