Nowadays, the number of cases involving missing children is increasing and in worrying trend. It is mostly associated with abduction and kidnapping where in some situation, it occurs in split second when in parents are accidently inattentive to the children. In crowded are such as shopping malls and festival area, keeping children closed to parents are more challenging. Thus, the need to get the children enganged with parent is deemed become crucial such that where about of the children can be monitored. For this project, our innovation is to build a device that can monitor distance between the parent and children. The device then would give alert to the parents, indicating the status of their children, and becoming early warning system before unwanted incident occurs to the children. Besides that, this project is about to innovate from existing system which is existing system that being used detect location of children usually involve complex hardware such as combination of GPS and mobile network which are expensive and only available to certain groups of people. Furthermore, the system also limited when involving detection inside closed area. For product features, this device is like kids watch which is this device is lightweight, extensible, contain cartoon characters, energy efficient and cost effective. This device work is work by attach to the child (receiver) while the other one (transmitter) to the parent. When the child is within 5 meters or less, no alert notification is ON, when the child is beyond 5 meters but less 10 meters, pulsating vibrating at parent device is activated to alert the parent and when the distance of child is more that 10 meters, it continuous vibration and beeping sounds are activated to notify parents. Lastly, the system work based on detection of signal strength both device. The devices are developed based on available technologies with innovation in term of integration of electronic component and system. The low development cost promises competitive market price.
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