Baby Monitor
The Project
I am the only member of the Home Guarding Team. My project, PeacePod, came from a personal pledge to fix daily family problems—most notably making sure kids are safe when their parents can’t be with them. In this rapid movement in time, most parents find it hard to work an enterprise and take care of a child at the same time. Conventional choices are often costly, not within reach, or willing to work. The problems brought by COVID-19 intensified those issues; it emphasized a direct need for improved home-based solutions. PeacePod is an innovative baby monitoring app that gives parents confidence and more freedom. It comes with real-time HD video monitoring plus AI-powered safety alerts to recognize unusual movements—for example, when a child is going near dangerous things—and immediately informs the parents on their phones. By cutting down the need for constant watching, the app reduces anxiety and gives parents more liberty to work or attend to other matters without compromising the child’s safety. Both personal experiences of losing my childhood pet through sudden death, as well as an accident involving my aunt’s unsupervised child, have created a lasting impact on me in relation to the need for vigilance and safety at home. The biggest problem that I had come across so far in development was to establish a connection of the Raspberry Pi with my computer. Much troubleshooting, research, and advice from the teachers I had to knock down multiple errors that halted progress. Another was the final detection phase—problems like bright light disturbance, and connectivity took quite a lot of time and effort to iron out. Nevertheless, this enabled the production of a functional and reliable prototype design as an important incremental step in smart childcare.
