For most of us, a memory lapse is as harmless as forgetting to bring the garbage to the curb, or perhaps as costly as leaving a cell phone as well as cup of coffee on the roof of the cars and truck before driving off. however when the young child sleeping peacefully in the cars and truck seat slips your mind in the car parking lot, the results can be deadly.
We have no question that kid detection systems will soon be basic devices on cars, like backup cameras as well as trunk-escape levers are now. Not willing to wait, [ayavilevich] came up with his own cars and truck occupancy sensor for kid seats (Update: We originally linked to the Instructable however [ayavilevich] composed in as well as mentioned this is actual Hackaday prize entry as well as he’s looking for more people to get included in the project).
Dubbed Fochica, for “Forgotten kid in cars and truck Alert,” the system is clearly a proof of idea right now, however it has potential. The Arduino Uno senses Junior’s existence in the cars and truck seat with a homebrew capacitive sensor under the padding of the seat as well as a magnetic reed switch in the breast harness buckle. An Android app on a smartphone pairs with a BLE module to get the sensors’ status, as well as when the phone goes out of Bluetooth variety while the seat is occupied, the app seems an alarm. Simple, however effective.
We like exactly how well [ayavilevich] believed this through. Systems such as this are finest left uncomplicated, so any type of enhancements he makes should most likely concentrate on engineering a reliable, fieldable device. one more hack we’ve provided in the kid-safety area is fast stairwell lights for a visually impaired girl, which may provide some ideas.