Improving Safety Inside the Unattended Car

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Improving Safety Inside the Unattended Car

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What is this session about?

Applying IoT to improving safety inside an unattended car (or vehicle) when there are restrained unattended occupants on a hot summer day.

: Improving Safety inside the Unattended Car

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The potential danger with unattended vehicles

A quick run into the grocery store, to the bank for a quick transaction, or to pickup food can turn dangerous with restrained unattended occupants – a child or a pet – in the car.



Even when the car is in the driveway of a home

… a child could slip into a vehicle unnoticed.



The tipping point

The IoT solution for this use case was inspired by and dedicated to the children and pets left unattended in vehicles, where temperatures reached highs that were fatal or caused irreversible harm.

Source: http://www.cityoflagunaniguel.org/DocumentCenter/Home/View/527



The SolutionEnable an array of sensors to detect distressed sound, frantic movement, high temperatures and low humidity to trigger an alarm-based on a threshold

… even when it is unarmed, thus ensuring unattended children and pets are monitored.



The Sensor Tube


HumiditySensor

TemperatureSensor

TemperatureSensor

Real TimeClock

Left Microphone

RightMicrophone

MotionSensor

MicrocontrollerIntegrator

Alarm

ZigBeeCommunicationThe assembly in the vehicle has a number of sensors that are

collecting data and sending to the integrator unit. The integrator is constantly computing to sense the event threshold. Additionally, alternate sensors help rule out false positives.

harness

housing


Integrating to the Connected Car


The sensor array that has a collector is localizing the data and determining if the event that is looking has occurred.

The solution would be integrated with the vehicle's CAN bus, external Z-Wave/ZigBee hubs and/or GPRS to send links to external systems.

Unattended OccupantsIn a Vehicle

Caregivers

Law Enforcement

ConnectedHome

Monitoring


Quick View


Over 40 hours of testing in vehicle.

Cylindrical assembly to protect against damage and heat.

Assembly of all sensors along with the command module.

ZigBee communication module on the command module.


Quick View


Some of the testing done that was 114 degrees Fahrenheit

Test command canter that captured the data over ZigBee.

While outside temperatures were 101 degrees Fahrenheit.

The data is sent over a simple JSON format.


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Improving Safety Inside the Unattended Car