Smart Cradle

"Because you and baby deserve care!"

PROBLEM

As we are very well familiar with the hurdles faced by Parents to nurture their infant and especially in case if both the Parents are working. To give 24 hours of time in such cases is next to impossible. However they still need to look after their babies,thereby increasing workload and stress. They either send their babies to their parents or hire a baby caregiver while they are working. Some parents worry about the safety of their babies in the care of others.Thus they go home to check on their babies during their free time, such as lunch or tea break.



A baby Monitoring System that can monitor the babies' condition real time is proposed to solve these problems. A baby monitoring System consisting of a vedio camera and microphone without limitations of coverage.It can send data and immediately notify the parents about urgent situations,thereby shortening the time needed to handle such scenarios.

OUR SOLUTION

The proposed solution involves live monitoring of the child through a mobile application remotely.Noice Sensor for the detection of the child's crying activity.When detect crying, cradle send a message to parent,plays a song.The Thermal sensor notifies the parent about the envioremental temperature near the baby and switch on the fan automatically with temperature. The proposed system uses the cloud service for remotely monitoring the child.

SOLUTION ARCHITECTURE


There is a cry detection mechanism which detects cry of the baby and send instant mobile app notifications to the user, at the same time some music will be played to soothe the baby.User can use play music option using their mobile application according to their wish at any occation even if a cry is not detected in order to soothe the baby. Using the temperature sensors, room temperature is delected and if it exceed 30 celcius ,mini fan will be turned on automatically.Turn on and off functions of the mini fan can be fully controled using the mobile application also according to the need of the user.Swing of the cradle is fully controlled by the Mobile application.


Central server(AWS ) is used to maintain a database to keep a track of registrations and logins.Whenever the user log in to the system, mobile application will conect to the server and verify authentications.

Hardware Control Flow




Software Control Flow




ER Diagram




EER Diagram




SOFTWARE DESIGN

Mobile application is designed in a more user friendly manner.Graphics and picture are used to repesent the functionalites/options of the smart cradle.This will clearly deliver the content to the user and they can easily navigate to their requirements without much frustration.

Basic functionaites of the mobile application:

Monitor the baby

Swing the Cradle

Check the room temperature

Play Music

Switch on the Fan

Get Notifications

User have to first register giving their basic information,thereafter whenever they use the application, they can login giving their user name and the passward.This will assure our users that their information is protected and secure. Since real time visual monitoring of the baby option is available in the mobile application, assuring the privacy of the users as well as thier babies is more important. Because of high protection over the all the user information and the passwords,users can be make user that no unauthorized person can see their baby and no third party people can access the control of the smart cradle

UI Design


Front End Validation

All the user inputs are checked before sending them to the server

SignUp and Login

When adding, removing and selecting a device

Backend Validation

Alert Boxes are displayed according to the resposnses recieved from the server

SignUp

Login

Select a device

Music

Swing

Settings

Add a Device

Remove Device



Mobile App Demostration



Technologies used



MQTT

MQTT is a lightweight IoT communication protocol based on the publish/subscribe model. Used to establish a connection between sensors and actuators with the mobile application. HiveMQ MQTT Broker is used.






HARDWARE DESIGN

Hardware Components


NodeMCU
This is used to control the sensor and actuators.
  • GPIO pins + WIFI module inbuilt
  • Operating Voltage: 3.3V
  • Input Voltage: 7-12V
  • Flash Memory: 4 MB
  • SRAM: 64 KB
  • Clock Speed: 80 MHz
Arduino UNO ATmega328P
To content the Stepper Motor.
  • Operating Voltage: 5V.
  • Input Voltage (recommended): 7-12V
  • Input Voltage (limit): 6-20V
  • Digital I/O Pins: 14 (6 provide PWM output)
  • PWM Digital I/O Pins: 6.
  • Analog Input Pins: 6
  • DC Current per I/O Pin: 20 mA.
ESP32-CAM module
To get live monitoring of the baby.
  • Onboard ESP32-S module, supports WiFi + Bluetooth
  • OV2640 camera with flash
  • Onboard TF card slot, supports up to 4G TF card for data storage
  • Supports WiFi video monitoring and WiFi image upload
  • Supports multi sleep modes, deep sleep current as low as 6mA
  • Control interface is accessible via pinheader, easy to be integrated and embedded into user products

DHT11 Temperature and Humidity sensor
To detect room temperature
  • Working voltage: DC 3.3-5V
  • Operating current: 0.3mA (measuring) 60uA (standby)
  • Output: Serial data
  • Temperature Range: 0°C to 50°C
  • Resolution: 16-bit
  • Accuracy: ±1°C
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    LM393 Sound Detection Module
    For the cry detection purpose
  • Operating Voltage: 3.3V to 5V DC
  • LM393 comparator with threshold preset
  • PCB Size: 3.4cm * 1.6cm
  • Induction distance: 0.5 Meter
  • Operating current: 4~5 mA
  • Microphone Sensitivity (1kHz): 52 to 48 dB
  • Easy to use with Microcontrollers or even with normal Digital/Analog IC
  • Small, cheap and easily available
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    Stepper Motor
    To Swing the cradle
  • Shaft diameter: 5 mm “D”
  • Steps per revolution: 200
  • Current rating: 1.2 A per coil
  • Voltage rating: 4 V
  • Resistance: 3.3 Ω per coil
  • Holding torque: 3.2 kg-cm (44 oz-in)
  • Inductance: 2.8 mH per coil
  • Output shaft supported by two ball bearings
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    TB6600 Stepper Motor Driver
    To provide microstepping ability to a stepper motor
  • Operating voltage: 9-40V DC
  • Output Current: 0.7-4.0A
  • Pulse input frequency up to 20kHz
  • 5V levels input signal
  • 200-6400 pulse per revolution
  • Logic signal current: 8-15mA
  • Output current selectable in 8-steps via DIP switches
  • Suitable for 2 and 4 phase motors
  • Over current and over heat protection
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    12V Mini Fan
  • Connector: 4pin.
  • Rated Voltage: DC 12V.
  • Rated Current: 0.11±0.02 Amp.
  • Rated Speed: 6500 ±10%rpm.
  • Air Flow:9.8CFM.
  • Noise: 15±10%dB.
  • Bearing Type: Sleeve.
  • Dimension(Fan): 30mm x 30mm x 20mm.
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    L298N Motor driver
    To control the fan
  • Driver Model: L298N 2A
  • Driver Chip: Double H Bridge L298N
  • Motor Supply Voltage (Maximum): 46V
  • Motor Supply Current (Maximum): 2A
  • Logic Voltage: 5V
  • Driver Voltage: 5-35V
  • Driver Current:2A
  • Logical Current:0-36mA
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    Mini Speaker
    To play music
  • Power : 0.5W
  • Resistance : 8 Ohm
  • Type : Internal Magnet Speaker
  • Magnet Diameter : 14mm/ 0.55"
  • Size : 30 x 4.5mm/1.2" x 1.4"(D*T)
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    5V Power pack
    To give power to ESP8266 NodeMCU and ESP32 CAM Module
  • AC input voltage: 110 - 240 VAC
  • AC input frequency: 47Hz - 63Hz
  • AC input current: 0.3A max.
  • Max. inrush current: 30A max.
  • Leakage current: max. 0.75 mA
  • Efficiency: 70% typical at full load
  • No load power consumption 0.5W
  • DC output voltage: +5VDC
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    2N3904 Transistor
    To amplify the signal giving to the speaker
  • Bi-Polar NPN Transistor
  • DC Current Gain is 300 maximum
  • Continuous Collector current is 200mA
  • Base- Emitter Voltage (VBE) 6V
  • Collector-Emitter Voltage is 40V
  • Collector-Base Voltage is 60V
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    Circuit Diagrams





    Schematic Circuit Diagram


    PCB Design



    3D Model

    3D View

    Product Demonstration



    SECURITY AND SAFTY

    When we consider about a product like cradle ,security and safety is the most important thing.Security features of this product are achieved by using the above technologies.

    AWS : This is the cloud based serever that we use.We have choosen it ,because it provides secure services. It uses certificates to authenticate machine to machine communication and provides policies to control the actions of the devices.

    Amazon RDS : We create our own database server in cloud, and amzon RDS is the storage service that we use.We have choosen it because it supports MySQL and it is secure.It uses data encryption to secure data.The data stored in the disk is encrypted. The data which is transmited via the network is also encrypted.

    JSON Web Token (JWT) : This is used for the authetication.Once the user login to the system the server sends this token to the user.

    Passward Hashing : The orginal password is not stored in the database.Hashing performs a one-way transformation on a passward, turning the passward into another string.


  • Sending JSON Web Token at the login.
  • Store hashed passwords in the MySQL database.
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    TESTING


  • POSTMAN is a scalable API testing tool.
  • HTTP requests that are sent to the server in each api call, are tested using this tools.
  • Mobile application testing is done using APPIUM
  • This enables testers to write test scripts against multiple platforms such as iOS and Android using the same API.
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  • Flutter test package is used for unit testing
  • Front end validation is done using this

    • API testing with POSTMAN


    Frontend And Backend Testing


    Testing Summary


    WHY we tested,

  • signup and login : It is important to make sure that the system is only accessible by authorized users with accurate user details.
  • add device and remove device : It is important to make sure that the ‘device’ and the ‘ownership’ tables in the database are correctly updated.
  • select device : It is important to make sure that the devices are only accessible by their owners.
  • swing , paly music ,fan , temperature monitor and settings : It is important to make sure that the basic functionalities of the mobile application are working properly
  • backend : It is important to make sure that the all API endpoints are working correctly.

    • BUDGET

    TIMELINE

    TEAM

    Our Team Members

    Madush Dilshan
    E/17/040

    Shashini Upekha
    E/17/356

    Hasara Wijesooriya
    E/17/407

    Our Advisors

    Dr.Isuru Nawinne

    Dr.Mahanama

    Contact Us


    University of Peradeniya.

    Phone: +94 81 239 33 00
    Email: vc@pdn.ac.lk
    Web-site: http://www.pdn.ac.lk/

    Faculty of Engineering.

    Phone: +94 81 239 33 02
    Web-site: http://eng.pdn.ac.lk/

    Computer Engineering Department.

    Phone: +94 81 239 39 14
    Web-site: http://www.ce.pdn.ac.lk/