Device to Remotely Track and Locate the Position of a Child for Safety

TL;DR

This paper introduces a child safety device that allows parents to remotely call, locate, and monitor their child's route, using a novel deviation detection algorithm to enhance safety during independent travel.

Contribution

It presents a new child-friendly mobile device with a route deviation detection algorithm to improve child safety and parental monitoring during independent travel.

Findings

Device successfully detects route deviations

Algorithm accurately triggers notifications

Enhances child safety during travel

Abstract

Parents are always worried about the wellbeing of their children. As per the Statistics Report 2017 by Missing Children Europe Organization, a child is reported missing every 2 minutes. Due to the imminent threat, parents are prone to buy their children mobile phones to keep in touch with them. However, giving a Mobile phone to a child can cause issues including cyber bullying, improper use of social networks, access to mature age and illicit content on the internet and possibly, phone theft. As an effort to tackle some of those issues, this paper proposes a solution which enables parents to call, locate and track their children using a child-friendly mobile device. The common scenario the device would come to play is in enhancing the safety of a child who would travel alone on a typical route; for instance a child who walks from home to school and back. The device can be calibrated to keep track of a typical route of travel. Then, if the device de-tects some deviation from the usual route, it would trigger a notification to parents. A probability matrix based nov-el algorithm is introduced to detect route deviation. De-sign details of the mobile device, along with the details of the route deviation detection algorithm are presented in this paper.