Chef Shield

The Project

Our solution is a sensor that detects if the stove is on, if there is a person nearby, and if there is a pot on the stove. If there is nobody attending the stove then the stove will shut off, an alarm will go off, and an LED will blink. We built this using a temperature sensor, a pressure sensor, and a PIR sensor. After the stove is shut off due to a user leaving the stove on, the stove will not turn on again unless the user inputs something into the calculator to make sure the stove will only be on while being attended.

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Team Comments

Every year there are hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries caused by cooking fires. According to the Red Cross there are more than 170,000 home fires each year caused by cooking and the leading cause of all these fires is having a stove left unattended while cooking.

The sensors would melt if they were too close to the stove so they had to be farther away. During the filming process, all of Shiloh’s recordings were in slow motion. We couldn’t speed it up to normal speed because the audio was still mess up so we had to refilm all of his parts.

The next steps we can take to advance further in this project is to add the WiFi module so you can see the stove temperature, and turn the stove back on through your phone if needed. We can also figure out a way to have this system implemented on a gas stove.