Child Presence Detection and Alerting System in an Unmanned Car

Abstract

Leaving a child unattended in an unmanned car has become a serious problem in the recent years. 14 per cent of parents say they have left their infants, toddlers or kindergarten-age children alone in a parked vehicle. For parents of children three and under, the percentage increases to 23 per cent. 11 per cent of parents say they have forgotten their child in a car. For those with children age 3 and under, it's nearly 1 in 4. The heat inside the car is not the only problem but also suffocation. The deaths happening from crashes are more than this, but this type of deaths can be avoided by simply reminding the parents about their unattended child in the car. This type of system can even be expanded to notify humans about their unattended pets in a car. The proposed project tries to reduce these types of deaths by alerting the owner using Raspberry PI 4 and a Bluetooth module if the child or the pet is left unattended. In the proposed work we are using voice detection to detect the child’s cry using SVM model and Bluetooth condition of the parent’s phone is checked to see if the parent is out of range. If Raspberry PI detects that the parent has left behind their child in the car then an alerting message is sent to parent’s phone using a library in Python called Twilio.